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In the first half of this Hupac year record of 439 thousand has enlivened an intermodal traffic shipments
The transalpine traffic has grown of +8.3% and that not transalpine of +6.5%
August 31, 2018
In the first half of the 2018 Helvetic group Hupac it has recorded a new record of enlivened intermodal traffic that it has turned out pairs to 439 thousand street shipments, with an increase of +7.7% on the first six months last year when the precedence was marked semiannual peak of traffic with 408 thousand shipments.
The new record is obtained graces is to the new semiannual peak of transalpine traffic, that it has been pairs to 298 thousand shipments (+8.3%), is to the new peak for the period of the not transalpine traffic, that is piled to 142 thousand shipments (+6.5%). The increment of the activity on the transalpine axis is produced by the increase of the transports through Switzerland that have attested to 278 thousand shipments, with an increase of +9.4% that it more has than compensated the decrease of -3,2% of shipments through Austria (18 thousand) and bending of the -19,9% of that through France (1,500).
Hupac has specified that to the positive result of the not transalpine traffic it has contributed from the june month 2018 also ERS Railways, recently acquired society from the Swiss company(on 2 May 2018). In particular, ERS manages beyond 100 intermodal trains to the week between the German marine ports and several destinations of southern Germany and, moreover, from the current month manage also the train Rotterdam-Kornwestheim shuttle of the Hupac group.
For the second half of the year of this Hupac year it previews a prosecuzione of the supported trend of increase.
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