Anitra Green

SBB Cargo is prioritising the growth and competitiveness of wagonload freight by utilising the latest technologies, as CEO Mr Nicolas Perrin explains to Anitra Green.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) has begun work on an SFr 100m ($US 101m) project to expand SBB Cargo’s San Paolo marshalling yard at Bellinzona to increase capacity as part of the broader upgrading of the Gotthard corridor.

WITH just weeks to go before the start of full commercial operations, Switzerland’s Federal Transport Office (BAV) has approved the use of Bombardier Traxx locomotives in the Gotthard Base Tunnel following the installation of an ETCS software update.

Disruptions to railway operations are always bad news, but when caused by suicide, it literally stops you in your tracks. What can be done? Anitra Green reports on recent developments in Switzerland.

SWISS rail freight operator SBB Cargo is equipping its entire fleet of freight wagons with RFID technology in a bid to meet future market demand.

SWISS Federal Railways’ freight subsidiary SBB Cargo plans to introduce a synchronised timetable for its single wagonload traffic sector at the timetable change on December 11, with up to three daily shifts at its main marshalling yards instead of just one.

A high-level meeting between Mr Andreas Meyer, CEO of Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), and Mr Guillaume Pepy, president of SNCF, on September 13 in Zürich has laid the basis for closer cooperation in ensuring the smooth launch of the cross-border Léman Express regional network in the Geneva area at the end of 2019.

INCREASING passenger and freight traffic helped boost Swiss Federal Railways’ (SBB) first half by 2.4% to SFr 4.36bn ($US 4.48bn), according to the company’s latest financial results, which were published on September 13.

SWISS Federal Railways (SBB) will introduce a new service for tourists next year on the historic scenic mountain route through the Gotthard Pass called the Gotthard Panorama Express, in addition to a train aimed at hikers and a conventional RegioExpress service.

SWISS intermodal transport provider Hupac showed a 12.3% increase in the volume of traffic it carried in the first half of this year, around 40,000 more road equivalent units than a year ago, and its main service transalpine traffic via Switzerland was up 20.2%.