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Swiss ask EU to reroute traffic after Gotthard disaster

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Swiss alpine passes cannot handle heavy commercial traffic, said Michel Egger, deputy head of the Federal Office for Roads. He is a member of the Swiss crisis team set up in response to the accident, which occurred on Wednesday when two trucks collided in the Gotthard tunnel, on a main European north-south route. The accident…

Gotthard disaster reveals limits of tunnel safety

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 “Compared with other tunnels in Europe, and all over the world, the safety level in the Gotthard Tunnel is quite high,” says Hubert Roegg, director of the Swiss Institute for Safety and Security. “But there is certainly more that could to be done.” Safety measures in the Gotthard were overhauled in the wake of the…

Dozens still missing after Gotthard tunnel inferno

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Fire crews are working to stabilise sections of the tunnel’s roof, which is in danger of collapsing. Parts of it have already caved in because of the blaze’s extremely high temperatures, which reached 1,000 degrees Celsius. Ticino police said at least one woman and ten men are confirmed dead, and they expect to find dozens…

Tunnel fire prompts calls for second road through Gotthard

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Leading Swiss motoring associations have demanded that authorities speed up efforts to construct another road. In statements published after the accident on Wednesday they said the authorities would be irresponsible and negligent if they continued to block the construction of an additional route linking central Switzerland with the Ticino region. The transport minister, Moritz Leuenberger,…

Fire crews still struggling to reach Gotthard accident site

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Fire crews returned to the scene in the early hours of Thursday, and were advancing slowly towards the accident site with hoses and blasts of highly pressurised air. The temperature close to the blaze dropped from 1,000 to 200 degrees Celsius overnight, but remains too high for the firefighters to approach ground zero. The authorities…

Coop buys into Betty Bossi

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 As part of the deal, Betty Bossi will remain an independent company. Its managing director, Walter Lüthi, will remain and it will keep a staff of 70. In a statement, Coop said its outlets would reinforce rather than weaken the Betty Bossi brand name. It said it hope to benefit from the company’s expertise in…

Betting on the boffins

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 Spinning-off advanced research into start-ups is seen as the new route to well-paid jobs and new economic clusters for future growth. As government and private industry commit more resources to support spin-off activity, venture capital money is flowing to university research teams, especially those in the fields of life sciences, photonics, materials science, and biotechnology.…

Swatch bucks trend with strong sales growth

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 The firm’s chief, Nicolas Hayek, told Cash magazine that although the September 11 attacks had hit sales in the United States, markets in Europe and Asia had strengthened. “US sales fell around 9 per cent in September and October. But we were able to compensate for this in other countries and so overall sales are…

ABB chairman begins to unveil new strategy

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 “We must focus on the future direction of the various units within the company,” said Jürgen Dormann in an interview with the Swedish financial newspaper “Dagens Industri”. “Today’s synergies between many areas are not enough.” Dormann was appointed chairman on Wednesday after the surprise resignation of Percy Barnevik, the man who created Europe’s largest electrical…

Swissair employees fight for redundancy pay

This content was published on Nov 23, 2001 The payouts came as the country’s banks, the government and investors in Swissair’s successor say there is no money for redundancy packages for the company’s employees in Switzerland. The State Secretariat for the Economy (Seco) confirmed on Thursday that the government had been financing foreign redundancy payments. A spokesman said the company would have faced…

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