Chiasso, Alptransit will only be able to meet future modal shift expectations if the access routes are expanded consistently and promptly. In the Corona year , Hupac again achieved a traffic volume of one million road consignments. Maintaining the network despite the pandemic-related drop in volume led to a negative business result of CHF 2.
For the current year, Hupac expects traffic growth in the single-digit percentage range and a positive business result. This corresponds to a slight decrease of 0. The main influencing factors were the slump in maritime traffic from overseas and the economic blockade in Europe as a direct result of the COVID pandemic in the first half of the year. Traffic demand recovered in the second semester and reached the previous year's level by the end of the year.
The consequences of the Corona crisis were particularly evident in transalpine traffic through Switzerland. Demand fell noticeably in the period from April to June; nevertheless, Hupac maintained its network and thus made an important contribution to securing the logistics of vital goods. However, with a total transalpine volume of , road consignments Non-transalpine traffic closed the year with a small growth of 0.
While traffic to eastern and south-eastern Europe developed positively, other segments such as maritime hinterland traffic from North Sea ports were more strongly characterised by Covid effects. The financial year was also strongly affected financially by the pandemic.
The significant traffic declines and losses of the second quarter could not be offset in the course of the year, although the volume curve showed a continuous upward trend from the third quarter until the end of the year. However, the load factor had fallen so sharply in the spring that the negative financial results of this period led to the first negative Group result in the company's history on a full-year basis.
