Thirty-two projects admitted to the European financings of according to Marco Polo program



The EU commission has communicated the directory of the 32 projects selected on the base of the 101 proposals reached in the within of the calls for proposals of 2010 of according to Marco Polo program. The total financing European maximum of which they will benefit the 32 projects is of about 57,0 million euros.

Between the projects selected from the Commission figure a new railway corridor for the transport of container high cube from 45 ' between Pomezia, in the Latium, and Zeebrugge, in Belgium, proposed from Italian G.T.S. General Transport Service Spa. The project, that it has the objective to transfer from the road to the track a volume pairs to 865 million ton-km, will benefit of the maximum contribution of 2,9 million euros.

An European financing until about 1,2 million euros is assigned to the project ARTEMIS - Advanced Rational Transport Evaluator and Fine Information System, coordinated from Nethun, society of the Harbour Authority of Venice, that it has the objective to realize a computer science application in a position to characterizing which train, ship, rubber, more effective, efficient and economic fluvial transport or they are the transport modality (combinations) in order to transport the goods in Europe ( on 12 April 2011).

The EU commission has moreover selected the railway connection between Vesoul in France and Kaluga in Russia proposed from the logistic group French Gefco with the partner Captrain Deutschland and Transcontainer Russia, that it will enjoy the maximum contribution of the European Union of 539.102 euros. The service previews that a train every day block, journeying in Germany and Poland, resupplies of automotive members SKD the factory of PCMARus, joint venture Russian between PSA Peugeot Citroën and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, replacing the 740 trucks that would be necessary for the complete travels of round-trip from France to Russia. Every day, in fact, they must be transported 44 container high cube from 40 feet, equivalents therefore to 44 trucks; everyone employs eight days in order to reach Kaluga from Vesoul and as many in order to return, for a total of 16 days; multiplying 44 trucks for 16 days, the 704 trucks obtain. For the duration of the Marco Polo project, Gefco has programmed to more transfer than 411 million ton-km from the road to the railroad, very to above of the demanded minim in order participating to the program (60 million ton-km).

Between the chosen projects from the Commission figure also the "Trentino Shuttle" proposed from the Arcese Italians Transports Spa and S.A.E. Services European Road haulages Spa that the realization of service with train previews shuttle that the area of the Ruhr with Trento connects, included the withdrawal and the delivery door-to-door with truck. The assigned maximum contribution is of 3,2 million euros. The transfer of 804 million ton-km from the road to the railroad is previewed.

In marine within a new proposed service of short sea is selected shipping from the company Ustica Lines that previews the institution of a line between the Spanish port of Almeria and the Italian port of Livorno. The modal transfer of 910 million ton-km is previewed and the maximum contribution assigned to the project is of beyond 3,6 million euros.