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To Kombiverkehr October it will inaugurate a new railway service between Kiel and Verona
Initially previewed two departures to the week in both the directions
August 6, 2012
The intermodal operator German Kombiverkehr has announced the inauguration of a new railway service that will connect the Baltic port of Kiel to Verona, with departures from the Italian terminal in the days of tuesday and saturday and from the German port of call in the days of Wednesday and Sunday.
The new service will be coordinated with the service ferry that connects Kiel with Goteborg of the Stena Line and will be realized in collaboration with the company of Swedish navigation and the Cemat Italian.
Kombiverkehr has programmed the start of the service after the reopening of the railway line of Brenner, that it is closed for some days because of landslides and landslides happened in the course of the cloudburst that has interested the area in the last weekend. The inauguration will initially happen next 7 October with two travels to the week in both the directions with a train of the ability to 1.300 tons.
"The new service with direct train - the managing director of Kombiverkehr has explained, Robert Breuhahn - offers a remarkable increase to us of the ability to ambientalmente sustainable rail shipment on this line and meanwhile it allows us to free spaces on other Italian trains. Previously for the rail shipment between Verona and Kiel it was necessary to carry out a transfer to Amburgo-Billwerder. This will not be more indispensable". Breuhahn has specified that, with the start of the new Kiel-Verona service, Kombiverkehr will continue however to operate every day trains shuttle between Kiel and Amburgo-Billwerder.
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