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the Harbour Committee of Genoa has approved of a Plan of the Iron
Merlon: the objective is to arrive to 40% of traffic container on railroad
April 11, 2014
Yesterday the Harbour Committee of Genoa has approved of a plan of participations in order to develop the railway activity to service of the port of Genoa that the Harbour Authority, jointly with Italian Railway Net, has elaborated managing the projects sent to the ministry for the demand for financing that re-enters in the within of bill 145/2013 "Italy Destination". The harbour agency has specified that the program of the participations contained in the Plan of the Iron is worth about 50 million euros that, if financed, will allow to move about 40% of the total of the containerized trade of the port of Genoa on railroad.
The plan regards in particular the harbour basin of Sampierdarena and the harbour basin of Voltri. In first participations of railway infrastructuring in the terminal Ronco Canepa and the doubling of the railway connection between the terminal and national the railway net da/per Sampierdarena are previewed Furnaces for a total of about 21 million euros. The participation is already in phase of performance and the work would have to be concluded within the end of 2016. In the within of the harbour basin of Sampierdarena they will be restructured and requalified railway infrastructures of connection to the Campasso park through the Gallery New Pier and always will be restructured the railway parks of the Health terminal for a total of 13,5 million euros. In this case the work will begin to end 2014 and they would have to be concluded in 2017. The third group of participations to Sampierdarena regards the adaptation of the Park Outside Wall with its restructure and requalification and the completion of the railway ridge between Bridge Libya and Ponte Ethiopia with the realization of the railway connection with Bridge Eritrean. The amount of the financing in this case is of 15 million euros and the work will have beginning in 2015.
The participation previewed to Voltri with the realization of the new ways of communication between the railroads and internal the operating park to the container terminal VTE for a value of about 0,6 million euros. The specific participation that is carried out in collaboration with RFI will carry the terminal of Voltri from an ability to 11 couples of trains to the day to 24 trains couples/day. With the completion of the plan of the participations one will guarantee the railway operativity 24 hours on 24 for 300 annual working days. Moreover the dimensioning of the trains will grow that will have a minim of 24 wagons and 56 the mean load coefficient will be of teu/train.
"These participations - the president of the Harbour Authority has explained, Luigi Merlo - are thesis to integrate those already important in course and the final objective between these participations and those previewed to Voltri is to arrive to 40% of traffic goods on railroad". Merlon has specified that the participations programmed "are taken into consideration the infrastructural ability that will be expressed when the Third Pass will be realized. Meanwhile - it has added - with the Group Railroads it is being worked in concrete terms also for a strong integration of the computer science systems and of traceability creating to a logistic design of highest profile and still it does not anticipate in the Italian panorama".
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