RFI and COCIV have signed the contract for the work of the Third Pass of Giovi



Today to Genoa in the center of the Liguria Region the contract for the work of the Third railway Pass of Giovi is signed, on the Alta Velocità line/Alta Capacità Milano-Genova, by Italian Railway Net (RFI) of the group Italian Railroads of the State and general contractor the COCIV, consortium participated from Impregilo (54%), Lead (21%), Tecnimont (20%) and CIV (5%).

The value total of the works and the contrattualizzati work piles to about 4,8 billion euros. The realization of the Third Pass, second previewed how much from Financial law 2010, will happen in six constructive lotteries, of which first - already financed from the Cipe for a value of 500 million euros - the realization of works and activity for a value of 430 million euros previews.

"The signature of the integrating action of the Third Pass - the managing director of Impregilo and president of the COCIV, Alberto Rubegni has declared - 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".

The new line of the Third Pass will develop between the Liguria and the Piemonte and will have a length of about 53 kilometers, of which 39 kilometers in gallery, besides 14 kilometers of interconnections with the existing railway net, for a total of 67 infrastructure kilometers new.

"The Third Pass - the city council member to Infrastructures of the Liguria Region has asserted, Raffaella Paita - is the work who more represents the paradigm than an E region of a Country that they want to grow and they place to the center of their politics the resumption of the productive and industrial system of the North. The opening of a yard means creation of places of work and activation of inducing that in the moment of difficult crisis in which we find ourselves it is not mere trifle".

"The Prime Minister of the ministers, Mario Monti, in its speech to the Chambers - he has added the city council member - has made explicit reference to the strategicità of the Alta Velocità line and the Third Pass. The next day the Cipe has unblocked the resources on according to lottery. Between first and according to lottery are resources engaged for about two billions of euro for a work that costs some altogether about six. The auspice is that within January the work leaves".