The development of transalpine freight transport during 2025 can be described as dramatic from the point of view of Swiss modal shift policies. This is underlined by the last report on this traffic flow published today by the Office Swiss Federal Transport Authority, which highlights how, despite the last year truck traffic, equal to 960 thousand vehicles for over 10.8 million tonnes transported, was unchanged compared to 2024, road freight transport across the Alps you continue to gain market share. In fact, freight transport overall transalpine road and rail in 2025 is 35.6 million tonnage, with a decrease of -5,3%. This clearly shows - the report notes - that transalpine rail freight transport, which in 2025 handled over 23.7 million tons (-7.5% on 2024), continued to lose significant competitiveness for the fourth year in a row due to difficult conditions, determined in particular by the construction sites on the lines and therefore by the Lack of quality and reliability in freight transport long-distance rail along the most important axes North-South Europe. The report specifies that this situation remains unchanged and is intensifying in some areas and that this is why added to this is the persistence of a difficult economic situation for international freight transport.

The report points out that in these conditions, with frequent closures of railway lines due to major works and with the significant increase in outages, in particular on the German connection lines with Switzerland, which are leading to a significant transfer of goods by road, it is increasingly difficult for operators in the Rail freight transport maintain the transport volumes already acquired or even acquire new traffic. The document highlights that these can be permanently lost volumes by rail, since experience shows that their recovery has been possible only with considerable effort.

With regard to rail freight, the report explains that in the first half of 2025 cargo volumes transported (12.0 million tonnes) were significantly lower, with a decrease of -15.8% on the first half of 2024 to due to the increase in the number of line closures. In the second half-year volume increased by +2.8% to 11.8 million tons compared to the first six months of the previous year. The The document recalls that, however, the second half of 2024 was was characterized by major closures due to work in progress in the near Rastatt, at the Simplon Pass and along the San Gotthard, which had led to a reduction in the volumes of traffic.

In the whole of 2025, the volume of traffic in the unaccompanied combined transport was less than -4.7% having totaled less than 17.7 million tons. Also wagonload transport, with less than 5.2 million tons, recorded a decrease of -12.7%. The volumes transported RoLa rolling highway, with 926 thousand tons, are decreased by -23.5% in the last year of activity, being the Service ended in December ( of 9 December 2025).