Swiss railway company BLS Cargo is looking forward to the introduction of the measures to counteract the decline in transalpine traffic rail and combined, which after a phase of Growth is declining. The Swiss company has highlighted that after the initial euphoria caused by the completion of sections of the New Rail Link through the Alps (NRLA), which is the key infrastructure of the rail corridor connecting Rotterdam to Genoa and including the Lötschberg, Gotthard and Ceneri Base Tunnels, Four years after the end of the project, this Success has cracks in the current market environment extremely difficult and, after years of continuous growth, the share of the of the rail transport market is once again in decrease, with the shares of combined transport and which are currently 10-15% lower compared to last year.

BLS Cargo found that rail transport was penalised the construction sites opened on the lines, with diversions and cancellations, the high prices of railway and energy train paths. The company highlighted that Next year, other major construction sites on access are planned north, with lines that will even be closed to traffic for months freight rail without the necessary capacities being available alternative. BLS Cargo has specified that this entails and will result in cancellations of travel, both planned and short-term, freight trains, with a consequent high burden on the for railway undertakings. A negative scenario made loss of revenue for railway companies and additional costs additional costs that they will have to incur due to the consequent inefficiencies in the use of personnel and locomotives.

While BLS Cargo has expressed its appreciation for the Short-term support adopted by the government on Wednesday Swiss Federal ( of 29 November 2023), the company pointed out that in order to achieve the objectives of transferring the transport of goods from the road to rail and increase the rail share of transport of goods, improvements are needed on the entire Rhine-Alpine rail corridor, with an efficient coordination of construction sites, including through improved international cooperation between infrastructure operators, which provides for the identification of alternative routes on which it is possible to at least 80% of the volume of goods to be diverted Go by rail. For BLS Cargo, you also need provide for the establishment of parking and buffer areas, as well as stabilisation and reduction of train path prices which in Switzerland - the company complained - are much more higher than in the other countries of the corridor. About the price (BLS) considers it important that future adjustments to the Current price of electricity for railway traction do not exceed the market price of diesel.