Helvetian SBB CFF FFS Cargo announces a reduction of the staff



Within 2020 railway society Helvetic SBB CFF FFS Cargo it will cut job 330 places on about 2.200 total ones of the company, of which about 100 places in the administration, 80 between the machinists and 150 between the maneuver staff, while within the end of the 2023 the dependent in less will be about 800 regarding today, reduction of the organic one that relatively to 750 assigned - it has specified the society - it will happen in the next few years following the natural fluctuations of staff in consideration of the hundreds of previewed retirements. The society considers that within the end of 2023 it will be able to hardly supply own performances to the customers with a current third party of the organic one, that is with 1.400 assigned rather than 2.200.

The company has specified that in this phase of deep transformation, being essential to supply perspective to the dependent interested from the reduction of the organic one, it is ready to invest 10 million franchi Swiss in the continuous formation of the staff.

SBB CFF FFS Cargo has explained that the cut of the staff is one of the consequences of the deterioration of the recorded market last year: if after much time, in 2013, 2014 and 2016 FFS Switzerland Cargo was returned to realize useful, in fact, the railway division goods that takes care of the Swiss market is time subordinate to strong pressures newly. In the 2017 SBB International Cargo - the society participated to 75% from SBB CFF FFS Cargo and to 25% from the Hupac compatriot whose activity is centralized on the transports on the axis north-south - it has been able to improve own economic result in spite of the interruption of seven weeks of the railway line to Rastatt, in Germany, while the systematic traffic between the Swiss economic centers slightly is dropped, with a balance negative of the -0,8%, and the transport to single wagons of limited volumes of goods strongly is diminished, with a balance negative of the -14,5% (between 2011 and the 2017 this type of transport is dropped of beyond a third party, until having an average of single two wagons to the day).

The railway company has anticipated that as a result of this deterioration FFS Switzerland Cargo will close the 2017 with a result of sign exercise negative and pairs to -37 million franchi and, on the base of the forecasts of development of the activities, it will carry out adjustments of value for a total pairs to 189 million franchi. To this billetings for 19 million will join franchi for the phase of restructure.