RAlpin
| RAlpin AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 2001 |
| Seat |
Olten , Switzerland
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| management | Ludwig Näf (Managing Director) Erwin Rutishauser ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) |
| Branch | logistics |
| Website | www.ralpin.ch |
The RAlpin AG , based in Olten is a Swiss transport company in accompanied combined freight transport . It is the operating company of the “ Rolling Autobahn ” (RA, Rola) between Freiburg im Breisgau and Novara .
history
As early as 1981, Hupac AG established a Rola connection between Freiburg im Breisgau and Milano Greco Pirelli . From the end of the 1980s, efforts were intensified to shift transalpine freight traffic from the road back to the rail. The law on the performance-related heavy vehicle charge (LSVA) was adopted by the voters in 1998, the contract for the expansion and operation of the "Rolling Autobahn" (RA) was then awarded in 1999 to the "RAlpin" working group - a play on words from "RA" and "alpin" composed of BLS, SBB and Hupac.
The company was founded as a stock corporation based in Bern on April 4, 2001, with BLS Lötschbergbahn AG , Hupac SA and SBB Cargo AG as shareholders. In the course of 2002 Trenitalia SpA also took part in the share capital.
The corporate structure was revised in 2006 and the headquarters moved to Olten on June 1st. In December 2010 the share capital was increased in order to invest more in own property, plant and equipment. For this purpose, 20 couchette cars (Bcm 51) from SBB were taken over; these were modernized by 2012 and are used as Rola escort cars. At the beginning of 2012, the company's own workshop in Wangen near Olten was able to start operations; this takes care of the maintenance of the wheelsets of the low-floor flat wagons.
At the beginning of 2011 RAlpin also took over the Rola connection between Basel ( Kleinhüningen port ) and Lugano (Vedeggio freight yard) via Gotthard from Hupac. This connection was discontinued in 2018.
Companies
| BLS AG | 33% |
| Hupac SA | 33% |
| SBB Cargo AG | 33% |
| RAlpin AG | 1 % |
According to the entry in the commercial register, the business purpose of RAlpin is “Development, operation and marketing of rolling motorways in transalpine traffic”. On behalf of the Federal Office of Transport (BAV), she is responsible for the operation of the Rolling Autobahn between Freiburg i.Br. and Novara via the Lötschberg-Simplon axis. RAlpin obtains the majority of the individual services from its main shareholders BLS, Hupac and SBB, who make up the majority of the seven-member board of directors.
The management at the head office in Olten with the departments finance, ICT, technology, plant management and production monitoring, as well as the department “workshop wheelsets” in Wangen b. Olten make up the entire company and comprise almost 25 employees. Another 25 employees are provided by partner companies at the locations in Chiasso ( Hupac Intermodal SA), Freiburg i.Br. (SVG Baden eG) and Novara (Fidia SpA).
The workshop processes around 7,000 wheelsets of the low-floor flat wagons each year, each of which is rented from Hupac. Traction services are rented from BLS Cargo or SBB Cargo. The allocation of train paths in Switzerland is carried out by Trasse Schweiz AG .
The relation Freiburg-Novara measures around 414 km and is overcome in about 10 hours. During normal operation, the Lötschberg-Simplon axis, the so-called Simplon Intermodal Corridor (SIM), which was designed during the expansion of the Lötschberg mountain route to be able to load loads with a corner height of up to 4.0 meters, is used. 22 parking spaces are offered per train; In the 2019 timetable, around 60 trains per week will be offered per direction, with 11 daily journeys per direction being the rule on weekdays. Around 100,000 trucks use the offer every year.
The Basel – Lugano route measures around 260 kilometers and takes around 5 hours. The Gotthard axis is used, which only allows loads with a corner height of up to 3.8 meters. A maximum of 26 parking spaces are offered per train; In the 2017 timetable year, 5 trains per week were offered per direction. Most recently, around 9,000 trucks a year used the offer. The discontinuation of the offer was not communicated publicly.
