A study illustrates the benefits of the railway Corridor Genoa-Rotterdam



Yesterday in the center of the Harbour Authority of Genoa to Saint George Palace a convention has held on sustainable mobility of the goods, that it is promoted by the Embassy of Switzerland in Italy and by the general Consulate of Switzerland to Milan with the sponsorship of the Liguria Region, the Municipality and the Harbour Authority of Genoa and in collaboration with the Foundation for sustainable development, in the course of which is introduced the study "Genoa-Rotterdam: a sustainable corridor".

The study, carried out from the Foundation and for sustainable development hinged on the three pillars of the economic, environmental and social sustainability, reaches the conclusion that the railway Corridor Genoa-Rotterdam is sustainable because useful and useful because sustainable. In fact, the Corridor relates more densely which peopled European regions between and to greater industrial vocation in which they are concentrated, in little hundreds of kilometers, productive districts of world-wide importance.

The more recent esteem on the increase of the question of long transport the Corridor, carried out taking into consideration the induced macroeconomic effects from the crisis - the study specifies - on the road preview an increase of the transport question goods from and for Italy of 8% in 2020 and of an oscillating value between the 12 and 32% in 2030, translate in a number of heavy vehicles through the Swiss Alps pairs to about 850.000 annual vehicles in 2009, 975,000 in 2020 and 1.171.000 in 2030. The today's road traffic is in wide part of long distance (beyond the 300 kilometers), to confirmation of the fact that still exist of the consisting margins of improvement for the modal transfer from the road to the railroad.

From the point of view of the positive effects on the atmosphere, assuming that in 2030, online with the perspectives delineated from White Paper EU on the transports, the majority part of the advanced traffics goods to the 300 direct and generated kilometers in Italy is transferred by the road to the track - still finds the study - could be reached a annual reduction of the emissions pairs to 0,3 million tons of co2, 1,000 tons of NOx and seven tons of particulate matter (PUBLIC PROSECUTOR) and an energy saving of 100.000 TEP. This potential reduction - the study emphasizes - is considerable because it is only reported to a quota the traffic volumes to transfer on track, that of the goods transported on heavy vehicles with origin and destination in Italy.

The majority quota the volumes of traffic to transfer from the road to the railroad is then that constituted by all the volumes of traffic, goods and passengers, than they are carried out on the Corridor. Thanks to this potential modal transfer from the road to the railroad, the avoidable external costs (incidents, congestion, noise, emissions, etc), for the smaller external costs of the rail shipment, could reach in 2020 about 134 million euros the annual ones and 2030 about 327 million euros the annual ones.
The transfer of these volumes of traffic from the road to the railroad would constitute therefore in environmental, social and economic terms a conspicuous advantage for Italy, with strong fallen back on the total competitiveness of the Country and on the policies of sustainable increase.

In the course of the Guido Porta convention, president of FuoriMuro Harbour and Railway Servizi Srl, the society that inside manages the railway maneuvers of the port of Genoa on assignment of the Harbour Authority, has evidenced the necessity to adopt intermodal solutions that afford to create along the Genoa-Rotterdam Corridor intermediate pauses for the refuel/defuel of the goods and so return the transport competitive on track. Emphasizing that the creation of the Genoa-Rotterdam Corridor is "an unrepeatable occasion of development for the Countries that it crosses", Door however has specified that "if Corridor 24 will be limited to connect the ports of Genoa and Rotterdam, the project will take off difficultly and carry insufficient benefits to the crossed territories". According to Door, in fact, "the rail shipment goods can express own competitiveness regarding that on rubber only if they are previewed between the stopped starting point and that of destination of intermediate that from time to time allows to load or to unload quickly also only the part of the container and the cases you furnish you anticipate on the train". "The intermediate stopped ones - it has added - would be moreover fundamental for the transport of the goods destined to the adjacent areas to the Corridor, reaching in it press of the urbanized areas until kilometer zero, and could afford to integrate Corridor 24, through appropriate intersections, with drawn new to high speed, as the Mediterranean Corridor that would have to join the region of Andalusia to Hungary".

Moreover Door has introduced the last news on the genoese railway enterprise: little more two-month-old from the release of the Certification of Safety by the ANSF - National Agency for Railway Safety and from the transformation in Railway Enterprise, FuoriMuro starts the first services of transport and railway navettamento. "The activities of rail shipment of FuoriMuro - it has announced - will leave in week with two trains used after the gas transport LPG that will connect France to Parma and Mortara via Ventimiglia-Genoa".

Moreover FuoriMuro will realize synergies with the railway enterprise InRail, based to Udine and assets in the Northeast, of which the same Door it is founding and president. "FuoriMuro - it has continued Door - has confirmed own increase also regarding the number of wagons enlivened inside of the port of Genoa. Also in September, in fact, the data confirm an average salary of about 11.000 wagons, in resumption regarding biennium 2010-2011. This testifies the importance of the port of Genoa and its ability to know to attract traffics representing a fundamental outlet on the Mediterranean for the Countries of the Europe North".