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New railway connection between Switzerland and Italy started from IMS Rail Switzerland and Hannibal
It has biweekly frequency and it offers a yield A-B
May 24, 2013
IMS Rail Switzerland, society of Austrian group IMS, and Hannibal, international the intermodal operator of the group Contship Italy, has started a new biweekly railway connection between Switzerland (Frenkendorf) and Italy (Melzo). The service offers to a yield A-B taking advantage of the connections already active daily paper of Sogemar Spa, intermodal arm of the Contship group, with the ports of Italians of Genoa (VTE and SECH), La Spezia (La Spezia Container Terminal) and Ravenna (Terminal Ravenna Container).
The new service can accept varied types of cargo unit (marine container and cases you furnish) included unit of special cargo as flat and reserviors. Moreover, on the base of a pre-emptive demand, the offer can be extensive also to the semitowings, transport type that needs of wagons with specific characteristics.
Hannibal and IMS Rail Switzerland have emphasized that the new Frenkendorf-Melzo connection "in reality transforms the dream of a connection between the main Swiss economic areas and the Italian ports, a remained desire in order much time only on paper for many Swiss shippers and economic actors. The service - they have found the two companies - will afford moreover a better division of the flows of traffic for Switzerland currently concentrated on the ports of the North European Range graces to a solution alternative through the Italian ports that will be able to guarantee times of distance reduced between the Far East and Switzerland. Moreover, graces to a efficient system of internal railway nets, IMS Rail offers the possibility to throw again the transports on all the Swiss railway connections also during the night".
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IMS Rail Switzerland, society of Austrian group IMS, and Hannibal, international the intermodal operator of the group Contship Italy, has started a new biweekly railway connection between Switzerland (Frenkendorf) and Italy (Melzo). The service offers to a yield A-B taking advantage of the connections already active daily paper of Sogemar Spa, intermodal arm of the Contship group, with the ports of Italians of Genoa (VTE and SECH), La Spezia (La Spezia Container Terminal) and Ravenna (Terminal Ravenna Container).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
