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Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The CFF rail company Wednesday morning reported a 13% increase in profits for the first half of 2008, compared to January to June 2007: CHF104.8 million. Of that, CHF101.8 comes from increased passenger traffic, up 5.8% with freight traffic continuing to lag. A CHF2 million loss was recorded for the company’s additional rail traffic, some two million additional passengers, during the Euro 2008 football championship. Extra hours related to the additional 4,700 trains were responsible for the loss.

The Geneva-Lausanne route accounts for one of the largest increases in passengers, up 10.8% for the six-month period, well above the national average but below the increases around Zurich and Bern, and strong traffic increases (24%) for the new Loetschberg tunnel trains.   

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News story, GenevaLunch, 3 September 2008.

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