Stable the volume of railway traffic enlivened in 2015 from the intermodal operator Helvetic Hupac



The volume of railway traffic enlivened in 2015 from the Hupac, Swiss operator of the arranged traffic, has been pairs to about 662 thousand street shipments, with an light increment of +0.2% on the year precedence. In the transalpine traffic total of the -2,8% is recorded a decrease being enlivened 420 thousand shipments regarding 432 thousand in 2014, of which 378 thousand enlivened through Switzerland (- 0.6%), 39 thousand through Austria (- 19.7%) and beyond 3 thousand through France (- 8.8%). Altogether the transalpine transports have shown a bending of the -4,7% in the first semester of 2015 and the -0,8% in the second half of the year. The remaining volume of traffic enlivened in the entire 2015 from the Helvetic company has grown instead of +5.9% being is pairs to 242 thousand shipments, with an increase of +5.4% totaled in the first semester and a +6.5% in the second half of the year.

Hupac has remembered that last year in the transalpine traffic via Brenner it has been necessary to suspend a connection generally and that the traffic goods is penalized by numerous days of strike and interruptions of line due to yards and incidents, with negative consequences on the volume of transported traffic.

With respect to the perspectives of the activity in 2016, Hupac previews that the question of transport services will be maintained stable. Factors of insecurity - it has explained the Helvetic society - are the decrease of price of the diesel oil that favors the transport of goods on the road and the parity frank euro/that penalizes the concorrenzialità of the Swiss offer of transports.

The director of Hupac, Bernhard Kunz, has specified that a objective of the company is to consolidate own net in the market key of western Europe, "especially - he has observed - to light of by now the imminent mass in exercise of the gallery of base of the Gottardo to year-end". Kunz in fact has remembered that the longer gallery of the world is currently in phase of test and will be available for the market beginning from December 2016. "the NFTA - it has found - will increase to the productivity and the attrattività of the intermodal traffic, a great opportunity to which we are preparing with method. Kunz has specified that other interesting markets are Europe Southeastern oriental and, besides the Far East where Hupac will upgrade own engagement in order to satisfy the increasing asks.

While Hupac has evidenced to have begun the year with the activation of numerous new connections, with the train Zeebrugge-Novara shuttle that carries out three spins to the week, than - it has emphasized the company - is of particular interest for the segment of the megatrailer, and with the connection shuttle Venlo-Bust Arsizio that the economic area of Limbourg Dutch to the net of Hupac offers to five departures to the week connecting for the first time. For the segment of southern Italy, in collaboration with the Italian operator Cemat a restructure of the shuttle is operated Arsizio-Bari Bust in order to optimize the timetables. Innovation also for the intermodal traffic with Poland, where they give the beginning of the 2016 terminal of Kutno, near Warsaw, acts as platform hub for the traffic on the East-West axis and you the trains converge coming shuttle of Hupac from Ludwigshafen, Schwarzheide and Antwerp, besides the new coming train shuttle from Duisburg managed in cooperation with PCC and Kombiverkehr; from shipments they can here travel until Moscow with the Hupac shuttle that ago service twice-weekly, in order then to be advanced towards the areas of Central Asia and the Far East. Hupac has remembered that the offer is completed by the connection between Schwarzheide and southern Poland introduced in May 2015. Moreover in the segment of the business unit Company Shuttle, recently constitution, is activated new connections, with a train shuttle that gives the beginning of 2016 carries out service between Rotterdam and Novara with four complete spins to the week; another train work daily between northern Italy and the economic area of Limbourg Dutch. To half January the railway connection between Copenhagen and the region of the Ruhr, started in autumn 2015, is upgraded with a connection until the limburghese area.