Cargo Forum Switzerland (CFS)

The Cargo Forum Switz­er­land (CFS) is an inte­rest group of asso­cia­ti­ons for the bene­fit of freight trans­port. The CFS pro­mo­tes the inte­rests of freight trans­port in poli­tics, admi­nis­tra­ti­on and the public. It aims to bet­ter high­light the eco­no­mic importance of freight trans­port and to repre­sent its inte­rests on a hig­her level. The CFS con­tri­bu­tes to poli­ti­cal solu­ti­ons and pro­mo­tes fair and prac­ti­ca­ble frame­work con­di­ti­ons. It forms a plat­form for the freight trans­port indus­try, aut­ho­ri­ties and politicians.

CFS mem­bers include the Swiss Com­mer­cial Vehic­les Asso­cia­ti­on ASTAG, the Com­pe­tence Cent­re for Effi­ci­ent Value-Added Net­works GS1, the Swiss Cham­ber of Com­mer­ce and Indus­try SIHK, the Swiss Ship­pers’ Coun­cil SSC, the Asso­cia­ti­on of Swiss Freight For­war­ding and Logi­stics Com­pa­nies SPEDLOGSWISS, the Swiss Ship­ping and Port Indus­try Asso­cia­ti­on SVS and we at the VAP. For spe­cial pro­jects, we work tog­e­ther with other organisations.

The CSF is neu­tral towards freight trans­port modes, stri­ves for a demand-ori­en­ted and sus­tainable trans­port poli­cy, sup­ports a state-quota-neu­tral, mar­ket-based trans­port manage­ment as well as the unbund­ling of freight and pas­sen­ger trans­port and advo­ca­tes the har­mo­ni­sa­ti­on and stan­dar­di­s­a­ti­on of all instru­ments rela­ted to freight trans­port management.

For the fol­lo­wing modes of trans­port, the CSF has for­mu­la­ted the fol­lo­wing demands:

Inland water­way trans­port: pro­mo­ting inland water­way trans­port as an eco­lo­gi­cal­ly and eco­no­mic­al­ly sen­si­ble mode of trans­port.
Air freight: ensu­ring demand-ori­en­ted air freight capa­ci­ties and the cor­re­spon­ding infra­struc­tu­re into and out of Switz­er­land
Rail: Equal rights for pas­sen­ger trans­port com­pared to freight trans­port; allo­ca­ti­on and pri­cing of train paths by inde­pen­dent bodies; pro­mo­ti­on of unac­com­pa­nied, com­bi­ned trans­port, if neces­sa­ry via train path pri­ces and infra­struc­tu­re finan­cing.
Road trans­port: prio­ri­ti­sa­ti­on of dome­stic freight trans­port, dome­stic and export trans­port over tran­sit axes; pro­mo­ti­on of opti­mi­sa­ti­on mea­su­res for the use of infra­struc­tu­re capacities.

You can find out more from CFS Pre­si­dent and Natio­nal Coun­cil­lor Fabio Regaz­zi or from the mana­ging asso­cia­ti­on SPEDLOGSWISS,

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Activities of the Cargo Forum Switzerland:

Orga­ni­sa­ti­on Bahn­in­fra­struk­tur (OBI) und Ver­ord­nung über die Orga­ni­sa­ti­on der Bahn­in­fra­struk­tur (OBI-VO)

Inno­va­ti­ons­för­de­rung

Unter­ir­di­scher Güterverkehr

Güter­trans­port auf der Schie­ne 2017

Ter­mi­nals