Lombardy region will sign an agreement with RFI and Ferrovienord in order to eliminate the necks of bottle from the railway net



The Lombardy Region has in forecast an agreement with the railroads for velocizzare and increasing the transport of the goods. The regional city council member to Infrastructures and Mobility, Raffaele Cattaneo has announced, explaining that "within October Lombardy Region she will sign an agreement with RFI (Italian Railway Net) and Ferrovienord in order to eliminate the "necks of bottle" from the railway net that remarkablly reduce the traffic goods on iron".

The city council member has specified that the understanding will have "the objective to characterize a complete program of participations beginning from those most strategic ones that they regard the potenziamento of the railway net and the development of systems for the interchange of the goods to those minors in order to eliminate the "necks of bottle" and to return the existing net more efficient. This means, for example - it has specified Cattaneo - to lengthen the railroads of interchange to 750 meters, where possible, or to 700 meters, so as demanded from the operators of the railway transport goods".

The regional city council member has remembered that the participations in phase of realization or already realized in order to remove these throttlings in the railway traffic are about a some thirty in all the Lombardy: "these work - it has emphasized - is important because we are spending tens of billions of euro for the railway lines to high ability, but these velocizzazioni risk to being cancelled because the train does not have adequate railroads of interchange".

"93% of the transport goods in Lombardy - it has continued Cattaneo - still happen on rubber and solo 7% on iron. It wants to say that on 401 million tons, solos 28 are transferred on iron. The engagement must be that to arrive at least to 50, also because the Countries around we have chosen a clear strategy in this direction and the tunnel of the Gottardo, through which the goods will travel on iron, in five years from now will be truth".

Last week the regional Table for mobility of the goods has met, been born on the model of that of public transport, in which the protagonists of the field of the logistics and the transport of the goods sit all. The objective of the organism is to characterize solutions to the problems that hinder the competitiveness of an important economic field of the Lombardy. The work has been articulated in three groups: infrastructures, simplification, in particular for the customs only door, and city logistics.

In the course of the reunion it has been discussed about the necessity to reduce the times of clearance of the goods (also being maintained opened the customs doors 24 hours a day) and the definition of homogenous rules for all the municipal administrations for the city distribution of the same ones.

With respect to the customs only door to Malpensa, Cattaneo has found that from the airport goods of aerial way journeys beyond the half of the traffic, about 440 thousand tons and a similar amount comes capacity in other airports, with a remarkable loss for the Lombardic port of call, in terms of lacked customs returns. "The condition because they remain here - has explained - it is that the customs door remains opened 24 hours a day and is on that we are working with an only experimentation in Italy".

In occasion of the reunion, the regional city council member to the Commerce, tourism and services, Margherita Peroni, has emphasized that "Lombardy Region has considered priority to upgrade the competitiveness of the logistics that is a strategic field for throws again of the economy in which the aerial cargo it carries out an important role. The Lombardy - it has added - alone active 55% of the national traffic of the import-export of the goods. The project, experienced to Malpensa between November last year and March of this year, is made, in agreement with the operators, on some types of goods (alive animals, yields and cosmetics), chosen among those that previews the control by at least two agencies and has had the scope to realize operating praxes and informative exchanges such to assure to the economic operators levels of simplification, comparable efficiency and effectiveness with those previewed, operatively, from the norm of institution of the only Door, that it will enter in function in 2014". "The collaboration spirit that has been created between the participants to the project, than has not cost a single cent - he has concluded the city council member Fibulas - represents one of the main positive aspects of the experimentation. The active participation of all the parts, in fact, besides to allow the attainment of the first results, has afforded to make to immediately emerge in constructive way the points of attention and the criticalities, characterizing some feasible solutions to local level. The contraction of the times and the relative cost reduction to aerial handling of the goods is in fact decisive factors for the competitiveness of the Lombardic economic system".