In Switzerland railroad and road haulage they speed up better conditions for the arranged transport



Railway group Helvetic SBB CFF FFS and the ASTAG, the Swiss association of the haulers, has undersigned a document strategic with the scope to ulteriorly improve integration of the two systems of street and railway transport, to promote the arranged transport, to strengthen the field of the traffic of the goods and to agree new strategies for the logistics.

In the document the two parts ask also better conditions for the traffic for the goods through an equal consideration of the traffic fleeting goods and the traffic, the maintenance of the social standards and the prohibition of national cabotage, continuing to prevent to subjects foreign countries to carry out transports between two Swiss destinations, let alone the widening of the abilities to the terminals.

SBB CFF FFS and ASTAG speed up moreover a greater consideration of the demands that reach from the field of the transport goods. Remembering that the division Cargo of the Swiss railway group is working to various projects of innovation, as for example the intelligent wagons goods or the coupling automatic rifle, with the objective to carry own activity in the digital era and that the ASTAG, with its 6,000 associated enterprises, is putting into effect internal operating optimizations in order progressively to increase the efficiency of the road haulage, the director of SBB CFF FFS Cargo, Nicolas Perrin, have evidenced that, "besides the business strategies, optimal conditions are but necessary also the most possible picture. Task in the first instance - it has specified - to the insufficiency of the infrastructural offers and to the disparity of conditions regarding the international competition, that they limit the ability of action of the Swiss logistic operators".

In particular, according to SBB CFF FFS and ASTAG, it is necessary to develop the Co-modality ulteriorly and the conditions picture must be fair and stable. To such fine they do not have to be introduced unilateral tightenings-up of the norms that regard single systems of transport, the financings in order to support the field of the transports go guaranteed on the long period and a planning of the abilities must be promoted that holds account of the various systems of transport.

Moreover SBB CFF FFS and ASTAG have emphasized that it is necessary to continue to encourage the arranged traffic and that therefore the widening of the ability to the terminals is indispensable, between which also Gateway Basel Nord that is in phase of realization.

At last, for SBB CFF FFS and ASTAG, the street and railway infrastructures they must be widened in aimed way and taken advantage of in more efficient way and the law on the transport of the goods, and in particular the plans of use of the net, go put into effect with sistematicità since for the future they preview pairs treatment of the traffic of the goods and the traffic of the passengers.