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SBB Cargo, Hupac and Contargo have constituted joint venture that the new container will manage terminal of Basel Nord
According to the forecasts, the platform will become operating in 2019
June 24, 2015
Helvetians SBB CFF FFS Cargo and Hupac and the Contargo German have constituted joint venture Gateway Basel Nord with the objective to accelerate the realization of the new container terminal of Basel Nord ( on 18 August 2014). The new society will manage the new bimodale terminal (track/road), than it is previewed it will become operating in 2019 and he will be accessible to all the users interested to the container transfer and to other carriers of the arranged traffic.
In a second phase the terminal will be widened with a new harbour basin realized from the Swiss Rhenish ports for the trimodale transfer road/track/water that will be connected directly to the Rhenish port of Kleinhüningen.
"For Switzerland - it has evidenced the director of Contargo, Holger Bochow - it is of fundamental importance to have of a system of transfer of the goods more efficient in order to arrange the several types of transport. The Swiss Rhenish ports are therefore of absolutely priority strategic importance for supplying of the Country".
"Switzerland - the managing director of SBB CFF FFS has confirmed Cargo, Nicolas Perrin - compulsorily needs a great terminal for being able to face the increasing volumes of container in ecological and efficient way. The constitution of the common society of planning èun important step in this direction".
"Basel Nord - it has found the managing director of Hupac, Bernhard Kunz - is situated in a particularly favorable strategic position on the Rotterdam-Genoa corridor and offers, with its 750 meters of length of the railroads, the ideal conditions for a service to competitive conditions. With this platform we integrate our internal net is towards north is towards south and we create new opportunities of market for the transfer of the traffic".
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Helvetians SBB CFF FFS Cargo and Hupac and the Contargo German have constituted joint venture Gateway Basel Nord with the objective to accelerate the realization of the new container terminal of Basel Nord 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
