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In according to trimester of 2015 an increase of +2% of the goods is recorded transported through the Swiss Alps
the increment is entirely ascribable to railroad (+4.3%) that it has more than compensated the decrease of street transport (- 1.3%)
September 16, 2015
In the first semester of this year the total volume of the goods transported on the road and railroad through the Swiss Alps has recorded an increase of +0.4% being is pairs to 19,85 million tons regarding 19,78 million in the first half of 2014. The increment is determined by the progression of totaled +2.0% in the single second half of the year of 2014, when the transported volumes have been pairs to 10,16 million tons, that it has more than compensated the decrease of the -1,3% happened in the quarter precedence, when the traffic has been of 9,70 million tons.
Moreover - the Helvetic federal Office of the transports has announced today - in the first semester the 2015 railroad has increased own market share regarding the road reaching 69.2%, that it is the value found percentage more never elevated after the introduction in 2001 - has remembered the UFT - of the tax on the which proportioned heavy traffic to performances (TTPCP) and of the limit of the 40 tons that have changed to the conditions picture for the traffic goods through the Alps.
In particular, in the first six months of this year the goods transported through the Alps on railroad is piled to 13,73 million tons, in increase of +2.4% on the first half of the 2014, with 7,00 million tons transported in the second solo trimester of 2015 (+4.3% on the period April-june of 2014) and 6,73 million tons in the first trimester of 2015 (+0.5%). The goods pairs to 6,12 million tons (- 3.8%), of which 3,16 million tons in according to trimester (- 2.7% transported on the road in the first semester of the 2015 have been) and 2,97 million tons in first trimester (- 4.9%).
In the first six months of 2015 on the Swiss alpine passes they are journeyed 517,000 heavy means, pairs to a decrease of -1,4%. The UFT has specified that such bending is smaller of that of the total volume of the transports via road because of being employed a greater number of truck and trailer trucks with inferior cargos to their abilities.
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In the first semester of this year the total volume of the goods transported on the road and railroad through the Swiss Alps has recorded an increase of +0.4% being is pairs to 19,85 million tons regarding 19,78 million in the first half of 2014. The increment is determined by the progression of totaled +2.0% in the single second half of the year of 2014, when the transported volumes have been pairs to 10,16 million tons, that it has more than compensated the decrease of the -1,3% happened in the quarter precedence, when the traffic has been of 9,70 million tons.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
