Means billion of euro in order to make of Foggia hub railway of regional and national importance



Yesterday to Foggia the project is introduced in order to transform the city railway port of call in a hub of regional and national relief with total investments for 500 million euros in the within of Institutional Contratto of Development (CIS) for the realization of the railway director Naples-Bari-C#lecce-Taranto, included the Potenza-Shape line, that he has been undersigned 2nd August from the minister for the territorial Cohesion, Fabrizio Barca, from viceministro to Infrastructures and the Transports, Mario Ciaccia, from governors Stefano Caldoro (Campania) and Vito De Filippo (Basilicata), from the city council member to the Culture, the Mediterranean and tourism of the Region Apulia, Silvia Godelli, and from the managing directors of Railroads of the State (FS), Mauro Moretti, and of Italian Railway Net (RFI), Michele Mario Elia.

Institutional Contratto of Development previews total costs of the participations, all at the moment in planning, of 7,116 billion euros, of which cover 3,532 billion already supplied financial institution.

"That of Foggia - it has emphasized the apulian regional city council member to the strategic Infrastructures, Guglielmo Minervini - is a first dowel of a mosaic regarding which we will remain being imminent with the government, but the day today demonstrates that we are indeed ready, with plannings in a position to going fastly in contest. Part from Foggia because Foggia, in the system that is being designed, is and will be a nevralgico knot, with a function of "hub" in which various nets are concentrated, inside of which will have the exchanges of the passengers, the goods, the logistics: all the various modalities of transport, raise on which bearing away the processes of development of the territory".

The total articulation of the investments on the node of Foggia is illustrated by the territorial director Production of RFI, Roberto Pagone, that it has emphasized as "for first in Italy, starts the total investments of 500 million that regard the doubling of the Bovine-Cervaro-Shape feature, that it enlivens 250 million euros, the riser goods with resources for 10 million euros, the electrification of Potenza-Shape for 200 million euros and the Computerized Central Apparatus for 50 million euros that will manage in fleeting safety all the future traffic that will be concentrated on Foggia". Pagone has specified the times for the closing of the yards: 2014 for the entrance in exercise of the Shape-Bovine new, 2015 for the riser goods, 2016 for the ACC and 2017 for the Shape-Potenza new.

With more particular reference to the riser between Shape-Bari and the Shape-Caserta, the RFI leader has rimarcato as integral "in a project between more innovative of Italy after the incident of Viareggio: for the traffic goods and more dangerous species of the goods, the system Apulia is shaped between most modern with the three risers of Bari, Taranto and Foggia, that they will support the increment of the freight trains, objective own of the high ability, for which - Pagone has explained - we estimate to arrive from current the 20 freight trains to week to 40-50, a handling that would be impossible to make in the station of Foggia".

The Minervini city council member has confirmed that the riser between Shape-Bari and the Shape-Caserta is destined to the single transit of the goods and has evidenced that, "also considering that the flows are not condizionabili from the programming, the potentialities tied to this function of the traffic goods are extraordinary since the economic system Apulia looks to of the Campania ports having beyond Atlantic our markets of reference. Some month it makes - it has added the city council member - Divella complained the fact not were more freight trains for Naples and the same handicap accused it the row of the which padded piece of furniture, that they have the United States as reference. Foggiana company is emerged the Lotras offer (that work in the railway logistics and that manages the port of call goods of ASI Foggia Incoronata, ndr) and, now, four trains to the week, symptom of extremely interesting vitality are formed".

Minervini has confirmed also the importance of the adriatic director, than it is not opposed to that tirrenica: "the port of Taranto as port of reference of Italy in the Mediterranean - it has found the city council member - is a national choice and knows that the adriatic director serves Centro Europa, the area where 20% of the World gdp are developed. But the two guiding ones are not in contradiction. True Tant'è that we work so that they are eliminated, along the adriatic director, the throttling in the Termoli-Skimp draft, than in 2012 it is still to only railroad, and the throttling of Cattolica, where there is a gallery with an insufficient height regarding new the container that they travel on track. In CIS - it has specified Minervini - there is a first "account" of 350 million for ten kilometers of Termoli-Skimp, still lack resources for others 30 kilometers".

While Italian Railway Net has announced that 28th August the ban of contest for the executive planning and the execution of the work for the reactivation of the riser is published goods of Crowned (Foggia). The infrastructure, than is extended for about 1,6 kilometers, was realized in years ‘40 for military requirements developing itself to the margins of the industrial zone and, successively, dismessa. Once reactivated, it will allow to instradare towards Centro Italia the coming traffic goods from the Sicily, from the port of Gioia Tauro, the industrial area and the port of Taranto without to pass for the station of Foggia. With the reactivation of the railway connection the station of Foggia will turn out decongested and the areas of pause and shunting, used today for the transport goods, will be dismesse and be able to be so valued within a plan of city requalification. The total investment is pairs to 10 million euros. The work will finish within 2015.

With the Which crowned riser of the railway connections dedicated to the transport will go up to three goods in Apulia. Italian Railway net in fact has activated in 2008 to Bari and 2010 to Taranto two new connections goods having contributed to characterize the Apulia between the regions best equipped for the separation of the railway traffic goods from those passengers.