In 2025, combined road/rail traffic moved from Switzerland, Hupac amounted to around 975,000 shipments (equal to 1,853,000 TEU containers), with an increase of +4.3% on the previous year. In particular, transalpine traffic through Switzerland, amounting to about 560 thousand shipments, recorded a growth of +4.5% which - the company announced - partly attributable to the acquisition of traffic on the Belgium-Italy, in the absence of which transalpine shipments through Switzerland would have suffered a decrease due to the Second year in a row ( of 19 December 2024). Transalpine traffic via France and Austria, with around 24,000 shipments, marked an increase of +26.9%. Hupac announced that non-transalpine traffic in the sector has grown to almost 390,000 road shipments.

"The trend in volumes - commented the president of the company, Hans-Jörg Bertschi - is satisfactory overall, especially in light of the large challenges, such as the total closure of the Valley railway line of the Rhine in June, characterized by heavy traffic. Hupac continues to work hard to ensure its customers in the combined transport sector the best solutions in these conditions".

The company highlighted that the challenges that characterized last year they will remain in 2026: in Germany the Rhine Valley railway will be closed for two years weeks in spring, while in Italy it is planned, during summer, a five-week closure of the section between Iselle and Domodossola. In addition, the Troisdorf-Wiesbaden line on which the a traffic diversion service. Hupac pointed out that, To cope with this situation, the capacity on the and deviation should be at least 90% and international coordination of construction sites in order to prevent construction work and closures on the TEN-T corridors can cover the same areas of market. In addition, Hupac urged compliance with the parameters of production in terms of profile, length and weight of the trains also on alternative and diversion routes, as well as diversions with as few additional kilometres as possible, so such as the operational reliability of alternative routes thanks to preventive maintenance and the continuous presence of personnel in control centers.

The analysis of Hupac's future prospects has focused on the also focused on intermodal transport on the north-south axis through Switzerland, on which volumes have been steadily increasing since 2021 decrease. Conversely," the company noted, "in 2024 on this 960,000 truck transits were recorded, a value significantly higher than the maximum number of 650,000 truck trips per year provided for by the Swiss Constitution. Hupac noted that At the moment there is no reversal of the trend in sight and that, at the moment, on the contrary, in 2025 the situation may have further deteriorated. In light of this, Hupac underlined the need to maintain established instruments to support combined transport, in particular by ensuring the continuation of the operating fees for transalpine combined transport even beyond 2030 ( of the 12th June 2020).