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New service of Trenitalia Cargo between the port of Venice and the logistic platform of Lonato of Garda (Brescia)
Rail shipment of the coming sugar from the Mauritius islands disembarked in the Venetian port of call
November 11, 2013
Today Trenitalia Cargo has started a new service for the sugar transport from the Intermodal Terminal Venice (TIV) of the port of Venice on the logistic platform Lonato Spa of Lonato of Garda (Brescia). The service, that it has initially frequency weekly magazine, previews the every day transport of 42 coming sugar container from destined the Mauritius islands and to the customers of the Italy center-north of the Maxi society of Bolzano. The first cargo transported to Lonato from Trenitalia has reached the port of Venice on board of ship MSC Santiago.
It is under definition the realization of others two trains, always with frequency weekly magazine, that they preview a return traffic, from Lonato towards the port of Venice, in combination with other types of goods in export: producing iron and steel, marble and mineral water. The objective is that already in the next few months to institute a real traffic via fixed train every from Venice for the companies of the Italy north taking advantage of the potentialities of the logistic platform of Lonato of Garda.
The Maxi society of Bolzano, with about 550 thousand tons of commercialized sugar per year, is leader of the Italian market. The company, particularly sensitive to the topic of the sustainability, choosing as transport carrier on earth the train, in integration with the ship, reduces of 80% the emission of co2 and the primary power consumption regarding the street transport.
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