by blaettler_redaktion | Mar 9, 2021 | Member, Network
The 2021 revision of the track access charge will lead to a reduction of CHF 30 million in freight transport. After the 2013 revision brought an increase of CHF 25 million, the cost block for freight railways is now back at the 2013 level. Accordingly,...
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21.09.2022 |
by blaettler_redaktion | Sep 21, 2022
General assembly Tuesday, 27 August 2024 in Bern Review GA 2024 Medienmitteilung vom 27. August 2024VAP-Generalversammlung 2024: Die Zukunft der Schiene liegt in den Händen aller Akteure Präsidialansprache GV VAP Rede von...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Oct 13, 2021 | Events, Innovation
Next Stop: Container Terminal Basel Wolf On 28 September 2021, the signatories publicly presented the declaration of intent for the automation of Swiss rail freight transport. The occasion was a stop of the “Connecting Europe Express” – a special...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Jun 7, 2021 | Financing, Politics
With its motion 21.3594 «Mitigating the effects of the pandemic on rail freight transport», the Committee for Transport and Telecommunications of the Council of States wants the Federal Council to provide financial support to rail freight...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Dec 23, 2022 | Interoperability
From 2024, Switzerland will lose access to the EU platform for harmonised approval procedures for new rolling stock. This is tantamount to a further step towards isolation in international rail transport. Unless European-Helvetic relations...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Sep 7, 2023 | Financing, Operations
After the freight train accident in the Gotthard Base Tunnel, the Federal Office of Transport (FOT) is promoting rail freight transport with tangible measures: The tunnel may only be used for freight trains. The compensation per train operated in...
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18.09.2022 |
by blaettler_redaktion | Sep 18, 2022
INTEROPERABILITY The VAP is committed to interoperability. This means harmonising the framework conditions so that trains can run freely on European rail networks. Swiss freight transport knows no borders. Many of our members are...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Apr 6, 2022 | Freight Transport Industry, Operations, Politics
According to the modal shift report of November 2021, the Federal Council is considering a consultation on a ban on the transport of dangerous goods at the Simplon. In doing so, it is revising its assessment submitted to parliament in 2015,...
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by blaettler_redaktion | Apr 27, 2021 | Competition in rail freight transport
Désirée Baer, CEO of SBB Cargo, and Josef Dittli, Member of the Council of States and President of the VAP Swiss Rail Shippers Association, talk about the future of Swiss rail freight. They agree that digitalisation and automation should...
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18.09.2022 |
by blaettler_redaktion | Sep 18, 2022
COMPETITION IN RAIL FREIGHT TRANSPORT We at the VAP are committed to a fair, competitive freight transport system. To this end, we monitor, among other things, modal shift and lobby politicians for non-discriminatory rail. Informative Rail...
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