Hupac records a decrease of the economic results, but for the future it sees rose



In the exercise anniversary 2015, in the course of which it has marked an light increment of +0.2% of the enlivened traffic having had totaled 662 thousand shipments ( on 1° February 2016), the Helvetic operator of arranged traffic Hupac has recorded a contraction of the -19,7% of the exercise profit that is come down than 6,1 million franchi little less Swiss regarding 7,5 million in 2014, turned out - it has specified the company - than this year strongly is influenced by the variation of the frank exchange rate Swiss-euro. The revenues are diminished of the -10,3% attesting itself to beyond 427 million franchi Swiss and the groos profit is piled to 100 million franchi Swiss (- 4.2%).

Hupac has emphasized that if in the past years the transported volume has grown alone in modest measure to cause among other things of the inactivity of the European economy, of the strengthening of the franc in confronts of the euro and of collapse of the price of the diesel oil, the perspectives of increase of the intermodal traffic are however remarkable through Switzerland. The Helvetic company has remembered that the opening of the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo is in fact imminent, that will be inaugurated the next 1° june and will become operating to year-end: draft - it has evidenced Hupac - of "an epochal event that in the long period will involve a strong increment of the market opportunities on the axis of the Gottardo". The Swiss society has remembered moreover that within the 2012 the complementary infrastructures will be realized also, with the completion of the gallery of base of Monte Ceneri who will allow to carry to term the railway axis of plain through the Alps, the fine corridor of four meters in Italy and the potenziamento of the abilities to the terminals in Italy.

Hupac is being prepared in order to pick the opportunities deriving from these infrastructural participations with strategic plan 2016-2020: "the investment program - the president of the Helvetic company has explained, Hans-Jörg Bertschi - in next the five years previews about 280 million franchi Swiss for terminal, rotabile material and computer science systems". Objective of the plan is to reconquer market shares through Switzerland and to acquire new traffics, in particular in the segments of the trailer and the consumer goods. Moreover an acceleration of the geographic expansion is previewed. Hupac has specified that to such purpose on the Russian market a strategy of development with own rotabile material for the used wide gauge in Russia is getting ahead, while to beginning 2016 is inaugurated to Shanghai a branch for the Chinese market management. Other target markets are Southeastern Europe with transports until Turkey, the Iberian peninsula and France. Moreover Hupac attends an important increase of the activity of the business unit Company Shuttle, constituted at the beginning of 2015 and heads also at the market of the marine transport inland.