RFI and Cociv sign the contract for the first constructive lottery of the Third Pass of Giovi



Today to Rome the society Italian Railway Net (RFI) of the group Italian Railroads of the State (FS) and general contractor the Cociv, that it is participated by Impregilo (54%), Lead (21%), Tecnimont (20%) and CIV (5%), have undersigned the contract for the work of the railway line high speed/high ability to the Third Pass of Giovi on the Milan-Genoa line, that takes part of Corridor 6 confirmed recently in "Core Network" of the transeuropea net TRIES ( on 19 October 2011)

The contract, that , is relative to the first constructive lottery of the project already financed from the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning (CIPE) for 500 million euros and last July sanctions the start of the operating phase of the oral agreement which signed by Michele Mario Elia, managing director of RFI, and by Alberto Rubegni, president of the Cociv Consortium, to the presence of the minister of Infrastructures and of the Transports, Altero Matteoli, and of the managing director of Railroads of the State, Mauro Moretti ( on 29 July 2011).

Impregilo has emphasized that the value total of the works and the contrattualizzati work is pairs to about 4,8 billion euros. "The signature of the integrating action of the Third Pass - Alberto Rubegni, managing director of Impregilo and president of the Cociv has commented - concludes along iter autorizzativo and legal that has always seen Impregilo to believe firmly in the project and its strategic importance for Genoa, the Liguria and the north-west of the Country. The Impregilo group - it has continued - has represented a real point of reference in the realization of the railway system to high Italian speed, having constructed the lines currently in exercise Florence-Bologna and Turin-Milan. Now we set about to realize a new and strategic dowel of Italian system AV/AC, being guaranteed the adoption of the best common standards and putting to factor the competences of the groups that take part of general contractor the Cociv".

From part its Maire Tecnimont has evidenced that, with the acquisition of this contracted, the company strengthens own competences in the field of the high railway speed, in which the group has planned and participated to the realization of lines AV/AC Turin-Milan and Bologna-Florence.

RFI has remembered that the new line of the Third Pass of Giovi develops between the Liguria and the Piemonte crossing the territory of twelve municipalities in the provinces of Genoa and Alexandria mostly in gallery and has a total length of about 53 kilometers (39 kilometers in gallery), of which beyond 14 of interconnections with the conventional net. The Third Pass is interconnected to south with the node of Genoa in order to assure the connection directed with the harbour basins and the Genoa-Ventimiglia line and to north, in the directions of Turin, Novara, Milan and Piacenza, through the connections with the conventional lines in proximity of Novi Ligure and Tortona. The tracing is developed in two galleries to simple railroad placed side by side and joined between they from cross-sectional connections so that ognuna it can serve from gallery of safety for the other. The interconnections with the conventional net are previewed to Voltri, Genoa Campasso Park, Novi Ligure and Tortona.

"We from long time waited for the agreement between Cociv and relative Ferrovie to the Third pass", it has commented, the president of the Liguria Region, Claudio Burlando. "It is known - it has added - that still not there is the financing of the next lotteries, however I hope that the start of this yard you automatically carry with himself the lacking financings". The signature of the contract for the first constructive lottery happens in fact before the financing of according to lottery of the work with the formal approval of the CIPE, in the last weeks considered indispensable in order to unblock the litigation in existence between Cociv and RFI, that it concerns mainly on the payment of the progettuali activities already realized by the consortium, and therefore to set the work going.

"Before still to reach the strategic objective of a fast pass towards the Po plain for from Liguria portualità - it has added Teasing - the departure of the first yards will carry of important the immediate advantages a lot for the city. It means that the work of the gallery that, from the highway tollbooth of Genoa airport, will go towards the gallery, already realized, that it arrives to Scarpino, freeing the below practicability will leave and improving accessibility of the zones. Moreover the upset to sea of Fincantieri will be realized with the smarino, the material of turns out proceeds from the yards of the Third Pass".

The previewed total investment for the realization of the entire project of the Third Pass of Giovi is of 6,2 billion euros and the conclusion of the work is previewed at end 2019.