Forcieri (AP La Spezia) has visited the intermodal terminal of Melzo



The president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, accompanied from some collaborators, has visited the intermodal terminal of Melzo where Sebastiano Grasso has met, managing director of Sogemar who manages the intermodal structure, and Marco Simonetti, managing director of La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) that he manages the homonymous container terminal of the port break, both societies of the group Contship Italy.

In the course of the encounter - it has explained from Liguria harbour agency - "deepenings are developed turn to verify all the possible able bureaucratic mechanisms and of service to influence positively on the speed of transit of the container from the port of. One would be a matter of traducibili solutions in important advantages for the goods transported and the same ability to handling of the port, whose limits of space always are transformed in a thrust towards the innovation and the development of efficiency".

"It continues - Forcieri has commented - the activity of valorization of all the existing resources in order to buy back competitiveness regarding the ports of the Europe North. In particular, we support the intermodalità, looking for more and more to implement the use of the transport goods on iron that it sees to us on a national level already competitive, with a 27% of transit via train realized in 2011. In lack of sure times for the realization of great infrastructures, we are addressing our efforts in order to characterize innovative systems in a position to velocizzare the procedures with detail with regard to the customs services that represent the true element on which investing in order to increase our competitiveness".

They are the 24 trains that every week connect the port of (from terminal LSCT) to the intermodal terminal of Melzo, than it is developed on an area of 150.0000 square metres with 12 kilometers of railroads where 5,500 trains are worked per year that they correspond to 110.000 enlivened wagons. From the managed Lombardic terminal from Sogemar the international connections with Germany leave with every day frequency, Scandinavian Holland, Belgium and also Slovenia, Poland, Rumania, Austria and Paesi. The services are organized under the direction of Hannibal Spa (always part of the group Contship Italy) that it offers terminalistici and railway services to operators TX, GTS rail, SBB, Cross Rail and Oceanogate.