In the first six months of this year the transports arranged enlivened from Hupac have grown of +12.3%



In the first half of this year the Helvetic society of arranged transport Hupac has enlivened for railway way a traffic pairs to 376 thousand street shipments, with an increment of +12.3% on the first semester of 2015. The increase is generated mainly by the transalpine transports through Switzerland, that they have totaled 232 thousand shipments (+20.2%), and from the not transalpine traffic that has been pairs to 125 thousand shipments (+4.0%). Down, instead, the transalpine traffics through Austria and France with respective 18 thousand shipments (- 10.4%) and than less 2 thousand shipments (- 14.1%).

The Swiss company has emphasized that to determine the increase of the traffic in the first semester of 2016 "has not been only the positive course of the market, but also the active management of still the existing qualitative deficiencies of the system". Evidencing that thanks to aimed investments today Hupac it has greater railway resources, the society has restated that the necessity persists however to put into effect of the structural changes in order to return the system of the competitive and ready rail shipment to the future: "we receive with favor - the director of Hupac has asserted to such purpose, Bernhard Kunz - the principle of rate making which proportioned to the performances sanctioned from the directive EU 2012/34. The managers of infrastructures and the enterprises of rail shipment so will be stimulated to reduce lessened the dysfunctions and to increase the performances of the railway system. We hope that the Member States of the EU implement this principle as soon as possible. We are in the interest of all if we stablily improve clearly and the qualitative level of the railway traffic goods".

Rimarcato Kunz moreover as the strategy of increase of Hupac is demonstrated wins although the favorable price of the diesel oil for the transport on the road and the weakness of the euro. The company has specified that to the positive development of the activity they have contributed the activation, in the business unit Net Shuttle, of the new connections Venlo - Busto Arsizio, Zeebrugge - Novara and Rotterdam - Brescia, as well as the increments of frequency on the relations Colony - Novara and Duisburg - Busto Arsizio, while in the area of Europe oriental they are put into effect the restructure of the Polish net and the consolidation of the Austria-Hungary-Rumania-Balkans axis; moreover the connection Novara - Trieste is introduced in order to by sea connect the markets of Greece and Turkey with the net Net Shuttle. Hupac has specified that numerous projects are realized also by part from the business unit Company Shuttle.

Hupac has evidenced also the initiatives in existence in order to develop in aimed way the market of the transports with megatrailer in the arranged traffic transalpine, segment in which currently offers to 70 departures weeklies magazine for transports to profile of four meters between Italy and the destinations Rotterdam, Zeebrugge, Antwerp, Colony, Ludwigshafen, Lubecca and Taulov via Lötschberg and Brenner. "In 2020 - Kunz has remembered - the corridor of four meters via Gottardo will go in exercise. We intend to already today introduce of the perspectives at the market to the aim to accelerate at an appropriate time the process of transfer of the traffic". Hupac has anticipated that in the course of the second half of the year of this year ten departures will be introduced others in order to strengthen the offer through the corridor of the four meters of the Lötschberg.