Financed the works in the territory German in order to extend the railway line Betuwe goods to the industrial heart of Europe



Today the minister of the Transports German, Peter Ramsauer, the Prime Minister and the minister of the transports of the State of the Northern Renanzia - Vestfalia, Hannelore Kraft and Michael Groschek, and the managing director of the railway group German Deutsche Bahn, Rüdiger Grube, has signed an agreement in order to finance the realization of a third railway line between Emmerich and Oberhausen, that it is one of the lines for the goods more important and more used of the heart of Europe and that connects the region of the Ruhr and the corridor of the Valley Rhenish with the ports of the Sea of the North and with the railway line Betuwe that give Zevennar, on the border between Germany and Holland, he reaches with a distance of 160 kilometers the port of Rotterdam. The Betuwe line, completed in 2007, takes part of the priority project 24 of the European net Trans-European Transport Networks (TRIES) that it connects Antwerp and Rotterdam with Lyon and Genoa via Duisburg and Basel and of the railway corridor goods ERTMS Rotterdam-Genoa (Corridor A).

The total investment for the construction of about 73 kilometers of railway lines will pile to about 1,5 billion euros, of which 746 million euros by the German State federal (of which 51 million you melt for IT TRY to them), 450 million euros from the State of the North Rhine-Westphalia and the quota remaining proportionally subdivided between the railway group and operating third party.

Minister Ramsauer has emphasized that the understanding will allow to transfer more goods from the road to the track. "With the extension of the Betuwe line - it has added - we create the corridor by far goods more important in Germany and Europe, ready for the future, so that soon more goods can be transported along this important corridor".

"For beyond 20 years - it has evidenced Hannelore Kraft - we have intentional an extension of the Betuwe line. For decades the companies have had to transport their goods from and for the Dutch ports through this neck of bottle. Now the industry in the North Rhine-Westphalia and of Germany can finally breathe of new. The today's signature is a milestone of politics of the transports of the North Rhine-Westphalia".

"Today - it has found the managing director of Deutsche Bahn - there are the bases for a great overhong of the railway infrastructural project. The Emmerich-Oberhausen line - Rüdiger Grube has explained - is a central element of the European corridor Rotterdam-Genoa goods. It is important to extend this connection timely in order to create the absolutely necessary ability for the transport goods, but also for the trains I hung and to long distance".

Satisfaction for the signature of the agreement is expressed also by the managing director of the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam: "this - it has specified Hans Smits - has been an enterprise not for long. Only three years ago - it has remembered - the third railway line was rather behind in the list of the priorities of Germany. Thanks to the good one and very planned action of lobby with the Dutch government and the harbour community the things gradually are changed. With this end in view a fundamental element has been the support by the companies of the North Rhine-Westphalia and, above all, the government of the North Rhine-Westphalia. It has been passed from a "project for the port of Rotterdam" to one in order to promote the export from the outback. The construction of a third railway line means also the realization of tens of galleries and bridges, that they are a lot important in order to limit the disturbance brought to the local communities".