At the end of this year, RAlpin will suspend the service rolling motorway (Rola) connecting Fribourg and Novara. The Swiss company, which is owned by the Swiss BLS, SBB and Hupac, justified the decision with the "numerous and restrictions on the railway network" which did not not even with the financial support of the Confederation Switzerland, to manage the service in an economically sustainable way Rola which allows the Alpine transit of trucks by rail.

The company specified that already in 2024 about 10% of trains has been cancelled due to the planning of the construction sites and other unforeseen events, generating a negative by approximately -2.2 million Swiss francs and in the first quarter of 2025 the situation has further worsened: because of the work on the network - underlined RAlpin - 20% fewer trains circulated than in the same period of the previous year. Compared to the 1,018 trains operating in the first quarter 2024, in 2025 there were only 794.

RAlpin specified that, although demand remains high with an occupancy rate of about 80%, in accordance with the Confederation, it was decided to suspend the service by the end of 2025 instead of the end of 2028 as originally planned.

In addition, Ralpin announced that the three shareholders BLS, SBB and Hupac confirmed their readiness to ensure the funding of the service until that date, to allow for a orderly cessation of activities, and, for its part, the Swiss Confederation to increase average allowance for each truck transported until the final termination of the Rola.

RAlpin also specified that he is actively working to find suitable solutions for the 16 employees who are currently in charge of the Rola service and who will undertake to find solutions to keep the quantities transported on the rails until now through Rola. "However, it is foreseeable - he said taken over the company - that a part of these goods is initially diverted to the road, waiting for a possible conversion into craneable semi-trailers".

"The situation of Rola - underlined Ralpin - reflects in an emblematic way the difficulties of the entire transalpine combined rail transport sector. The growing The cancellation of trains is largely due to the persistent fragility of the railway infrastructure in Germany, which negatively affects the reliability of the service. RAlpin had hoped for an improvement in the framework conditions in the coming years, which could have opened up the new sustainable solutions for the transfer of traffic from road to rail. To achieve this, However, support measures at the level of politician. It is essential to preserve and consolidate the results obtained over the past 25 years for the successful transfer transalpine traffic through Switzerland'.