To Savona the general tests of the new underground and submarine system of Spa Cable cars are begun



The general tests for the operating start of the new underground system are begun in these days and submarine realized from Spa Cable cars that connect the dock of the Terminal High Backdrops of the port of Savona with I unwind it intermodal of Saint Rocco where the new cargo station of the funiviari historians rises vagonetti. Near the parks of Saint Joseph di Cairo (Savona) the vagonetti in fact they have unloaded the first tons of coal disembarked near the Terminal High Backdrops. The beginning of the full operativity of the new systems and the entire infrastructural complex is previewed within the next month.

The work, devised from S.pa Cable cars and financed from the Ministry of Transportation for a value of about 40 million euros, is begun in 2004 and consists in two tunnel, of which a submarine and a basement, equipped of a system of belt conveyors that connects the Terminal High Backdrops with the two funiviarie lines of pass of Apennines from Liguria, long 17 kilometers each, managed in concession from same the Spa Cable cars.

The project has regarded the realization of two tunnel for a total length of 1.600 meters approximately. First, of about 500 meters, it is realized beneath of the dock plan and connects the terminal of disembarkation to a well of deep connection 40 meters. From the bottom of such well the second tunnel leaves, along about 1.100 meters, that it connects the harbour zone to the new Saint station Rocco, from which shares the two funiviarie lines. Inside such infrastructures a line of belt conveyors of the maximum capacity of 500 tons is realized/now, the auxiliary systems of caricazione of vagonetti and the all systems necessary to guarantee the highest standards than safety. The minitunnel, dug inside of the hill forehead sea in Valloria zone, is obtained thanks to uses it of a particular called technology "microtunneling", feather in the cap of engineering made in Italy.

Spa cable cars have emphasized that, from the environmental point of view, the new trasportistica structure, being completely buried for almost the totality of its passage inside of the urban fabric of the city (from the point of disembarkation until via Loreto Nuova, in presses of the "Rondinini") allows to eliminate every impact towards outside, is visual that of dispersion of powders. Always under this aspect, once to full regime the infrastructure would afford, the maximum potentiality of the system (8,000 tons/day), a reduction of the transit on the roads of about 300 trucks to the day, with a consequent discouragement of the introduced polluting emissions in the atmosphere.

The company has evidenced that without the realization of this work the ancient funiviaria way would be marginalized dispersing of the industrial value, moreover economic and above all the valence from the environmental point of view.

The beginning of the operating activity of Spa Cable cars goes back to 1912 with the entrance in exercise of before the two funiviarie lines today in concession to the society, line that constituted the first project of interporto to the service of the solid bulk in a position to connecting the sea with the plain, to beyond Apennines. In 1936, thanks to the birth of the coke oven of Italian Coke and to the consequent necessity of raw materials supplying, the second funiviaria line is realized that has afforded to double the transport potentiality. Carlo Emilio Gadda, engineer and original writer, already at the beginning of the nine hundred described this work as "an invention of the future".