Independent journal on economy and transport policy
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the intermodal operator Hupac celebrates its 50 years starting own marine services
Last year the Helvetic company has enlivened a traffic volume record
February 1, 2017
In the 2016 Helvetic operator of arranged traffic Hupac has enlivened a volume of loaded records having transported on track approximately 737 thousand street shipments, with an increase of +11.5% on the year precedence and with 13.417 shipments in more regarding the precedence record established in 2011.
the new peak of traffic is generated is from the new record of volume of traffic transported on the transalpine axis that gives the new not transalpine shipment record. In particular, the transalpine traffic is increased of +17.2% to 492 thousand street shipments, increment that is determined by the rise of +19.4% of the flow of traffic through Switzerland that has been pairs to 451 thousand shipments and that it has more than compensated the bending of shipments through Austria and France, that they have been pairs respective to 38 thousand shipments (- 2.4%) and 3 thousand shipments (- 5.9%). More contained the progression of the not transalpine traffic that has totaled 245 thousand shipments (+1.5%).
Being profitable famous the achieved results of traffic in 2016, the Swiss company has announced that in the course of the first semester of 2017, in occasion of the celebration of own 50 years, it has in program to start own marine services. In preparation to this new branch of Hupac business it has recently constituted the Hupac Maritime Logistics GmbH, society dedicated mainly to the transports between the European ports and the hinterland. The activity of the new society, with operating center to Duisburg, is centralized on the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp and scope of the initiative are to develop the specific procedures for the marine traffic, like practical customs, empty management of the container and transport first/last mile, in sight of the start of the marine lines.
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