FerCargo, the rail shipment goods in Italy remains the back marker in Europe



The rail shipment goods in Italy remains the back marker in Europe. The denunciation FerCargo, FerCargo, the association that collects the railway enterprises private Italians who operate in the field of the transport goods (Captrain Italy, Italian Railway Company, Crossrail, GTS Rail, Interporto Services Cargo, Hupac, Fuorimuro, InRail, Nordcargo, the Gate Ocean, Rail Italy Cargo, Services ISE srl, Rail Traction Company and SBB Italy Cargo).

Yesterday FerCargo has held own assembly anniversary to Rome, in the course of which president Giacomo Di Patrizi is confirmed unanimously for the third consecutive biennial mandate. In the executive committee of the association the confirmations of Marco Terranova and Guido Porta and the income of Francesco Cacciapuoti and Mauro Pessano have been recorded. Moreover the adhesion to FerCargo di Hupac and FuoriMuro has been sanctioned.

In the 2012 adherent railway enterprises to FerCargo they have produced to important results with turnover 250 million euros total and 13,5 million train-km, representing by now 30% of the entire present market share in Italy, with an increase of 11.5% regarding 2011. "Our budget as association - it has emphasized Giacomo Di Patrizi - is positive, but not equally can be said - it has added - for the situation of the rail shipment goods in Italy, that it remains the back marker in Europe".

"In spite of the interesting increase of our adherent railway enterprises - it has explained Of Patricians - the modal quota the railway traffic goods in continuous Italy to record a drastic reduction, the loss estimated for the entire section is of 40% from 2008 to 2012, pairs to 35 million train-km, has assisted to a real collapse of the traffic in last the five years".

"Beyond the lacked service for the Italian industry - it has found the president of FerCargo - the dramatic situation the railway cargo produces enormous indirect labor costs only considering the street congestion, the incidentalità and the pollution".

FerCargo has announced the proposal of an own plan of urgency for throws again of the section and to such purpose it has specified that shortly an encounter to the new minister of the Transports will be demanded, Maurizio Lupi. The association has anticipated that in the agenda indicated from the private railway enterprises the following participations turn out fundamental: to proceed quickly to the nomination of the new members of the Authority of the Transports and to return the same one operating; see again the mechanism of the financing to rain to exclusive use of some modalities of transport and to support instead the financing of sustainable and compatible modalities with the atmosphere, the rail shipment is one of they, online with the communitarian addresses and objectives; elimination of financings for the universal service in the rail shipment of the goods and I use of the instrument of contest for the less profitable drafts.

"The importance and the role of the rail shipment - it has concluded Of Patricians - deserve detail attention by the government, would be favorable a specific delegation for the railroads to an undersecretary to the Transports, on the example than it happens in others you leave of Europe".