In the 2015 transalpine railway traffic goods enlivened from BLS Cargo it has grown of +11%



Last year Helvetian BLS Cargo, society specialized in the rail shipment of the goods on the axis north-south through Switzerland, has operated 18,225 trains, with an increment of +11% regarding 16.486 conveys in 2014. The company has explained that the volume is increased in almost all the segments of traffic, but has grown in higher than average way the transports on behalf of the oil industry.

Sul forehead of the economic results, BLS Cargo has archived item 2015 with a turnover of 170,4 million franchi Swiss regarding 166,9 million in the exercise anniversary precedence. The operating profit is piled to 2,1 million franchi Swiss (3,9 million in the 2014) and profit to 0,3 million franchi clearly Swiss (2,5 million). The company has emphasized to have achieved in a 2015 balanced result financial in spite of the remarkable challenges to determined monetary level from the force of the Swiss franc. In particular, BLS Cargo has evidenced of strongly being penalized from the decision of the Swiss National bank at the beginning to suppress the minimal change of the euro of 2015 and that only a efficient management of the costs and the greater added value generated from the innovative employment of locomotives to transboundary level has partially compensated the impact of the financial burdens.

BLS Cargo has moreover evidenced that "the developments of the 2015 risk to make to lose ground on the road to the railroad in the competition with the transport. The low price of the diesel fuel - it has explained the society - returns the transports on the road clearly more competitive, while the restricted costs of the railway energy are not adapted. This situation intensifies the pressures on the prices of the transport enterprises goods on track. At the same time they increase constantly the administrative burdens and the costs at the expense of the transport enterprises goods on track in order to satisfy various you obligate for example prescribed (attested of safety, access to the net, maintenance) let alone the complexity of the systems (for example the system of definition of the prices of the traces, security systems ETCS)". According to BLS Cargo, "the legislator and the administration they must be mainly aware of the economic consequences of their decisions. Current the political decisions - it has denounced BLS Cargo - provoke to an sensitive increase of the costs for the transport goods on track while they reduce those for the transport on the road".

The perspectives for the 2016 are all centralized on the next inauguration of the tunnel of base of the previewed Gottardo in June, event that - according to BLS Cargo - "it will be a milestone of politics of transfer of the traffic on track". However the railway company considers "that the base gallery will already not unfold its positive effects from 2016. In fact - it has remembered BLS Cargo - between 2016 and the 2021 various work is previewed, between which those for the corridor of four meters, that they will limit the abilities. Moreover, it will have to be assured that the traces assigned to the traffic goods are available also in terms of ability and quality so that the gallery of base of the Gottardo, that goods is realized mainly for the transport, allows to put into effect optimized operating concepts". According to BLS Cargo in this context they are you anticipate still various gaps and to such purpose it has sped up participations of the Federal Office of the Transports and the society of management of railway infrastructure Helvetic SBB CFF FFS Infrastructure.