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The port of Rotterdam tightens the ties with Switzerland
Agreement with Port of Switzerland with the objective to use the region of Basel which gateway towards the railway Switzerland and passes and street transalpines towards Italy
July 4, 2012
The port of Rotterdam has signed a protocol of understanding with Schweizerische Rheinhäfen - SRH (Port of Switzerland), the Helvetic confederation of the Rhenish ports, with the objective to develop to the traffic of the goods between the Dutch port and the region of Basel using it which gateway towards the railway Switzerland and passes and street transalpines towards Italy. "In this context - the agreement evidences - Port of Switzerland and the Rhenish ports of Basel, Mulhouse and Weil constitute an important platform in the hinterland in the corridor Rotterdam - Basel - Genoa and a hub trimodale strategic in the net TRIES".
The first action previewed from the memorandum of understanding is to regulate exchange of information between the port of Rotterdam and the enterprises and organizations that take part of the logistic cluster that is under responsibility of SRH. Moreover a collaboration in the field of the intermodal logistics for the transport for fluvial and railway way is previewed. The understanding is focused also on the opportunities offered from the realization of the new trimodale terminal for the container to north of Basel ( on January 25, 2011 and 24 February 2012). At last the parts are engaged to stimulate use it of which combustible the which liquified natural gas for the fluvial transport.
"It is essential - the director of SRH, Hans-Peter Hadorn has declared - to have hard found in the port of Rotterdam a partner for our future projects". "The cooperation between the ports - it has added the director of the logistic cluster of Basel, Martin Dätwyler - is important also in consideration of the geographic positioning, with Rotterdam from a part and the logistics of Basel from the opposite part Rhenish".
In the 2010 traffic of the goods for fluvial way between the port of Rotterdam and the region of Basel and Switzerland it is piled to about 4,2 million tons (with a containerized trade pairs to beyond 101.000 teu) and light is dropped the next year because of an interruption of the traffic for an incident happened on January 13, 2011 in the zone of Lorelei. The traffic for railway way has been instead is in the 2010 that in the 2011 pairs to about 800.000 tons (the volume of the goods in container has been pairs to 62.000 teu).
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