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The division cargo of railway group Helvetic SBB CFF FFS is returned to the assets
In the first half of the 2018 result of exercise it has been of 3,4 million franchi Swiss
September 14, 2018
Railway group Helvetic SBB CFF FFS has closed the first semester of this year with a profit of 292 million franchi clearly Swiss on revenues pairs to 4,76 billion franchi Swiss, with increments respective of +92.1% and +3.9% on the first half of 2017. The operating profit is piled to 316 million franchi Swiss (+55.7%).
The division goods SBB CFF FFS Cargo is returned to the assets having recorded a result of Swiss semiannual exercise of 3,4 million franchi respect to a loss of -25,0 million in the first half last year. The company has specified that such upset of the result that is from leading back itself mainly to an increment of the turnover in the systematic traffic to wagons and the traffic to complete trains, but also to the positive effect of the measures for the reorganization and the strengthening of the performances. The society has anticipated that the second half of the year will be challenging as in the period the situation of the market is made more difficult and because they are programmed additional costs for the passage to new system of planning. Moreover SBB CFF FFS Cargo has remembered that beginning from 2019 will lose until 10 million franchi Swiss per year because of the abolition of the incentives to the traffic goods on track.
In the first half of this year the fleeting volume total of enlivened traffic from the Swiss group has been pairs to 9,06 billion passenger-km (- 0.8%), while in the segment cargo the traffic has been of 8,67 billion ton-km (+1.0%), of which 3,38 billion ton-km in national traffic (+3.4%) and 5,96 billion in that international (+2.0%).
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