Introduced the widening of the railway park of the port of Venice



Today, to the presence of the managing director of the group Railroads of the Italian State, Mauro Moretti, of the managing director of Italian Railway Net, Michele Mario Elia, and of the Venetian and Venetian authorities, is introduced the widening of the railway port of call to service of the port of Venice realized from the Harbour Authority of Venice near the harbour island of Marghera, in collaboration with Italian Railway Net, an investment of 12,2 million euros co-financed for 900 thousand euros from the European Union through the program TRIES (Trans European Transport Network).

The participation has seen the realization of seven new railroads, three of which electrified, plus ulterior a eighth railroad to service of the harbour island and of two tronchini for the shelter of the locomotori. Operatively, the port of call of Marghera will be able to altogether guarantee a traffic of 50 trains to the day for the maximum length of the convoys pairs to 700 meters. The work, entrusted to the A.T.I constituted from the enterprises Enterprise Coletto, Agrideco and Co.rac.fer and coordinated from the Technical Direction of the Harbour Authority, has lasted three years enclosed also an important activity of reclamation of the areas interested from the realization of infrastructures. The project is yields of the Agreement Picture between Region of Veneto, Municipality of Venice, Harbour Authority of Venice and Italian Railway Rete.

The Harbour Authority has announced that the doubling of the railway park has allowed to activate FS already Cargo in order to set up a new system of connections via train that relates directed the port of Venice with the two main ones to interpose you Venetian: Padua and Verona. Three trains to week between Padua and Venice are assumed and a shuttle weekly magazine for Verona that will have to be set up within september with the attainment of the new draughts in the harbour channels and therefore with the arrival of larger container vessels. The port of Venice - it has emphasized the harbour agency - will be able therefore to offer to the enterprises and to the navigation companies a doubled ability to I forward 720 pairs to container teu to week (12,800 tons of goods).

"We are aware, and all the analyses, comprised that written up from society "MDS Transmodal", indicate it - the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice has explained, Paolo Costa - than the definitive reintegration of Venice between the great Mediterranean ports (within the system NAPA) pass through the ability to forward/reception of the goods unitizzata (container or cases you furnish) via railroad and, in our case, also for internal waters (until Mantua today, until Pizzighettone and Milan, tomorrow). Therefore it is task of the port of Venice to prepare itself to at least manage and to enliven 30% of the harbour traffic via train or barges. A strategy that is not to the capacity of the single port and that it can and it must be made own from one (constituting) only logistic system that makes use of the two Venetian interportuali excellence: Padua and Verona. The constitution of an only customs area that make to move the container between Venice, Padua and Verona in a logic from customs only door - has concluded Coast - it is assisted obliged step from article 46 of the 201 bill Salva Italy. The announced agreement today of is alone the first step".