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May 4, 2022
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- Hupac closed 2021 with record growing revenue
by +12.4%
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- A single-digit increase in traffic is expected for 2022
percentage and a positive economic result
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 Last year, during which the volumes moved by way
railway from the Swiss company have marked a recovery being
increased by +10.7% after the slight contraction recorded in 2020 at
cause of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic
(
of 27
January 2022), Hupac also achieved financial results
record. In 2021, the group's turnover amounted to
record value of 682.5 million Swiss francs (+12.4%). The profit
gross was € 151.8 million (+36.4%), EBITDA was € 64.8 million
million (+22.1%) and net profit of 12.4 million Swiss francs
compared to a net loss of -2.5 million in 2020.-
- Hupac has announced that in 2021 material investments, equal
to 24.4 million Swiss francs compared to 43.4 million
in the previous year, they were relatively
modest due to the postponement of investment projects due to
uncertainties related to Covid.
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- In the period 2022-2026 the Swiss company aims at an increase
annual +7% of the volumes transported, to reach a
end of period a traffic volume of 1.6 million shipments
road, with an increase of 40% compared to 2021, and to this end the
Management Board approved a
investments of 300 million. Hupac pointed out that at the center of
this growth strategy there is the strengthening of the core
business on the north-south axis and the expansion of the network on axes with
great growth potential such as the south-east, the south-west and the
north-east of Europe. In addition, with regard to connections with the
maritime transport, Hupac aims to connect the network to ports
Italians and the ERS railway network from the ports of Hamburg,
Bremerhaven and Rotterdam.
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- As for investments in Italy alone, the Swiss company has
recalled the initiative with Mercitalia Logistics to create two
new large terminals in Milano Smistamento and Piacenza, whose
construction is resumed with completion of the work planned in the
2024, while for the Novara CIM terminal, of which the group has
assumed the management through the subsidiary Combiconnect
(
of 11
October 2021), Hupac plans a major expansion of the
capacity with construction work started this year that
include the extension of the tracks from the current 600 meters to the
European standard of 740 meters, new entry and exit tracks and
high performance gantry crane. To this is added the
project for a new terminal in Brescia that is still in phase
of preparation.
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- For 2022 Hupac expects a decline in activity
operational, with an economic slowdown, caused inter alia
from increasing disruptions to supply chains
global, which - explained the company - is also felt in Hupac.
In the first quarter of 2022, the Swiss group recorded a
traffic growth of about +4%, while in April the volume of
traffic was below the level of the previous year,
decrease - the company specified - determined by the three
weeks of construction on the Rhine Valley route that have
led to a halving of transport capacity. Beyond
supply chain disruptions and problems caused by
work on railway lines, on the progress of the year
however, other unknowns weigh: "the war in
Ukraine, further disruptions in supply chains
global due to the current pandemic situation in China and the next
increases in interest rates due to high inflation - ha
taken over the chairman of the Hupac group, Hans-Jörg Bertschi -
make 2022 a year full of challenges. Forecasting is difficult
in this situation." However for the whole of 2022 Hupac
predicts a growth in traffic as a percentage figure and a
positive economic result.
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