Hupac records an ulterior increment of the traffic volumes goods enlivened on track



In the first months of this year the Helvetic operator of arranged traffic Hupac has recorded an ulterior increment of the traffic volumes goods enlivened on track, with an increase of +9.3% of the transalpine traffic and +7.8% of the traffic total. The company in occasion of the celebration of own fifty-year has announced today, event with which has celebrated also the results records reached last year when the society has enlivened 737 thousand shipments, with a progression of +11.5% on 2015 ( on 1° February 2017).

Hupac previews that but in the next few months the activity of rail shipment can endure a slow down because of programmed the six months of closing of the line of Luino for the work of adaptation to the corridor of four meters, to be completed in 2020. The Swiss society has specified that the transports will be diverted on Domodossola and Chiasso, but has specified that they are however to preview irregularity and a smaller ability.

Celebrating with collaborators, customers and partner 50° anniversary of the Hupac, joint venture that four conveyors and Helvetic railway group SBB CFF FFS have founded in Ticino in 1967 with a start-up capital of 500.000 franchi and that today it has become the more important manager than net in the European intermodal traffic, the managing director of the company, Bernhard Kunz, have emphasized that "vicinity to the customer, investments in resources own and opening to the innovations are from always the lines guide of Hupac. The years to come - it has added - will carry others important challenges, but together with our collaborators, customers and partner we want to as the protagonist assert the intermodal transport of the traffic goods long-range in Europe".

In occasion of the celebrations the president of the Hupac, Hans-Jörg Bertschi, has stopped himself on the developments of the transalpine railway activity primed from the happened opening last December of the gallery of base of the Gottardo observing that, if on the plain railroad via Luino the heavy freight trains now need a locomotive in less, instead on the line via Uproar this important increment of productivity will be realizable single in the 2020 with the entrance according to gallery of base of Monte Ceneri. Moreover Bertschi has found that in the international transportation it has not been up to now possible to shorten the times of transport, reason for which on the Benelux-Germany-Switzerland-Italy corridor it is travelled with the same timetables of 2015. "90% of the possible saving of time - it has explained - vanish because of the waits", as it is still in an embryonic phase a planning of the traces agreed to international level and that it allows to transfer on the market the increments of productivity deriving from the gallery of base of the Gottardo.

Evidencing that already from Hupac years it is being prepared for the abolition of the contributions of exercise for the previewed intermodal transport in Switzerland within end 2023, Bertschi has specified that however the competitiveness of the intermodal transport in confronts of the transport on rubber negatively is influenced by external factors: If in Switzerland the completion of the corridor of four meters via Chiasso and Luino will assure an optimal productivity - it has explained - on the traffic corridor Rotterdam-Genoa goods delays in the elimination of the productivity throttlings must be stated. "Tonnage of 2.000 tons pulled ahead from a single locomotive, length of train of 740 meters and profile of four meters - Bertschi has remembered - are fundamental parameters for an economic exercise of the intermodal transport" and however in Germany and Belgium permangono of the limits to the length of the trains and in Italy to their tonnage. "In order to compensate the abolition of the subsidies of exercise in Switzerland from 2023 forward - it has observed Bertschi - we must increase the productivity in integrated way, to all the levels. While the transport on the road is strengthening own competitiveness thanks to low costs of the diesel oil and to numberless innovations, that on track is visibly losing ground".

"We will be able to totally benefit of the greater productivity tied to a efficient corridor of traffic goods - it has emphasized Bertschi - only if also Germany will implement the upgrade to the 740 meters. It is a step of vital importance for our field, data the enormous progresses that shortly the street transport will complete thanks to the gigaliner, to the platooning and the engines to low consumption".