Defined the directory of the ports and inland Italian terminals that will be connected to railway system European ERTMS



With on 25 January relative decision to the technical specifications of interoperability for the subsystem "control-command and signaling" of the trans-European railway system to high speed the EU commission has identified the ports officially and inland Italian terminals and the their relative railway connections that will take part of railway system European ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System/European Train Control System).

The ports of Genoa and Trieste, that they are included respective in the Corridors To and D of the net, will have to be consistent to system ERTMS within 2015, while the ports of Naples and Venice, respective part of the Corridors B and D, will have to be consistent within 2020. Between the ports and inland connected Italian terminals to the net, will have to be consistent within 2015 also Milan, Novara, Padua and Verona and within 2020 Bari, Bologna, Gioia Tauro, La Spezia, Rome and Taranto.

Communicating the insertion of the port of Venice in the net of the terminals that for law will have to be consistent to system ERTMS, the Harbour Authority of Venice it has emphasized that for Marghera Port such inclusion means to be able to afford to every European railway society to use of the port of Venice, being guaranteed maximum safety and efficiency of the convoys goods in arrival and departure from the port of call.

The ERTMS is an advanced system of management of the railway net that allows the automatic control of the distanziamento of the trains on the railroads and at the same time assures the greater safety and a greater commercial speed on the European railway net affording to railway infrastructure ERTMS of colloquiare with all the recognized rotabile material to European level.

The project co-financed from the EU previews six equipped European corridors of this system that will be realized in order to replace the multiple systems of circulation and safety of the several European railroads and in order to above all guarantee the interoperability of the trains on the new railway nets to high speed and high ability.

The Harbour Authority of Venice has remembered that Italian Railway Net (RFI) and the Italian government is engaged to finance the work of adaptation of the railway net, coherently with the European strategies and financings, and Marghera Port is inserted thanks to the participation of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports in the corridor D.