New railway connection between the port of Trieste and the multimodale platform of Bettembourg



The Trenitalia Italian (Group FS) has activated a new railway connection between the port of Trieste and the Luxemburgian multimodale platform of Bettembourg realized jointly with railway group Luxemburgian CFL and its controlled CFL Multimodal and ELO (Eco Logistics Operator), in collaboration with TX Logistik (group FS) and Alpe Adria.

from the port of Trieste. The coming seed-towings "Mega" to the Italian port from Turkey are loaded on the train and meet on the pole of Bettembourg, managed from CFL Multimodal, in order then to continue Low back various destinations in Luxemburg, Belgium, Countries, United Kingdom, France, Germany. Analogous handling and distance in direction Trieste and Turkey.

The current frequency of the service (three couples of trains, round-trip) affords to transport beyond 100 units for week, but the development plan previews to arrive in the first months of 2013 to an ability to beyond 300 units weeklies magazine, that is to say about 15 thousand semitows per year.

Trenitalia has evidenced that from origin to destiny every semitowing covers more than 2.500 kilometers and that in the first year is previewed the transport than more 10 thousand semitowings that are removed by the road, contributing in such a way not only to the decongestion of the road net, but above all to the reduction of gases greenhouse and the other emitted polluting substances in the atmosphere. In particular, the new multimodale service, that it transfers traffic from the street carrier to that railway one, based on the model of EcoTransIt calculation will make to record a reduction of 75% of emissions of co2 (pairs to the absorption of about 590 thousand trees in a year) and an energy saving of 65% (pairs to the requirements salary of beyond 100 thousand Italian medium families).

Moreover Trenitalia has emphasized that with this project it strengthens own positioning in the Northeast and the port of Trieste, guaranteeing to the coming traffics from Turkey and Middle East connections of elevated level of quality. In such context - it has specified the company - he is determining the choice to operate the new service, for the foreign part, with TX Logistik with which Trenitalia is strengthening the presence on the director Tarvisio /Salzburg (line of the Tauri).