Combined advantage for logistics

IN-MOVE by Railgrup we welcome the company Hupac among our partners, the leading intermodal network operator in Europe with a transport volume of 1.1 million road shipments per year. For more than fifty years, it has pioneered innovative and reliable rail transport services, thus making a key contribution to modal shift and environmental protection.

Hupac's network comprises connections between the main European economic areas and destinations as far as the Far East. About 160 Hupac trains with their own rail cars run every day, transporting containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers.

The Hupac Group consists of 23 companies with locations in Switzerland, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Russia and China and has 630 full-time employees.

The companies of the Hupac Group have 8,100 railway platforms and, acting as a neutral and independent combined transport operator, group the shipments of the transport companies in complete trains. Traction is provided by external railway companies. Hupac operates efficient terminals in key locations and invests in digital transformation.

Hupac Ltd was founded in Chiasso in 1967. The company has around 100 shareholders. The share capital of CHF 20 million is 72% owned by logistics and transport companies and 28% by railway companies. This ensures proximity to the market and the independence of the railway companies.

Hupac operates refrigerated semi-trailers on the Barcelona-Antwerp railway motorway

Hupac has included Frigo P400 refrigerated semi-trailers in the operation of its Barcelona-Antwerp rail motorway services, initially with five connections a week in both directions that will be adapted to market needs.

The El Morrot terminal in the port of Barcelona has been the arrival point of the first of the new refrigerated services on the rail motorway with Antwerp. The Swiss operator Hupac has sent the first Frigo P400 trailer on one of its Logista Freight trains, from the Combinant terminal in the Belgian port of Antwerp on a journey that lasted 48 hours.

The service launches with five round-trip weekly routes to reinforce the logistics chain between the two countries. The transport of this type of semi-trailer will be adapted to market demand, so the number of units that will be incorporated into the service, which will basically transport food, fruit and vegetable and pharmaceutical products, has not yet been defined.