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The Schweizerzug Helvetian will increase the frequency of the railway service Frenkendorf (Basel) - Antwerp
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December 31, 2018
From next 10 January Schweizerzug AG, the society of the Helvetic group Swissterminal that manages railway services that connect Frenkendorf, near Basel, and Niederglatt, near Zurich, with the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, will increase the frequency of the Switzerland-Belgium service elevating from two to three the spins weeklies magazine between Frenkendorf and Antwerp.
Moreover from the next Schweizerzug month it will activate a every day service between the railway terminals of Frenkendorf and Niederglatt.
The Swiss society has explained that the decision to increase the frequency of the Frenkendorf service - Antwerp is consequence also of the lowering of the level of waters of the river Rhine that in recent months has provoked a transfer of the transport of the goods from the fluvial modality that railway one. Rimarcando the benefits that the shippers of Switzerland and the bordering regions will draw from the increase of the ability to rail shipment on this line, the managing director of Schweizerzug, Roman Mayer, has evidenced as "the events of the last months have emphasized once again how much is and when the railroad for the transport of the goods will remain vital".
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