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Encounter in order to accelerate the realization of the doubling of the railroads in the genoese harbour area of Voltri
Within the end of March a feasibility study will be completed in order to realize the work
January 15, 2014
Today in Liguria Region an encounter with the objective has held to realize to accelerate the realization of the doubling of the railroads of access to the genoese harbour area of Voltri, area that up to now is served by an only railroad for the entrance and the escape of the goods limiting the operativity of the port of call. The realization of the new work is conditioned to the necessity to demolish the current viaduct of connection between freeway and port, viaduct of which is previewed the rifacimento in two lotteries, first of which it will leave shortly.
In the course of the encounter, to which they have participated the regional city council member to Infrastructures, Raffaella Paita, with its technicians, Italian Railway Net (RFI) and Italferr, the Liguria Region has asked RFI, in order to favor the increment of the operativity of the Voltri Terminal Europe (VTE), to characterize a technical solution that allow to reach the objective, in the blackberries of the demolition of the viaduct. For these reasons - the regional agency has announced - a locked program has been agreed that it previews that within the end of March RFI and Italferr they set up a feasibility study in order to realize as soon as possible possible the binary second. This phase previews the involvement, with a summoned encounter in order on 27 January, of the genoese Harbour Authority, the Municipality of Genoa, terminalista VTE and the Fuorimuro society, that it manages the harbour railway traffic, in order to deepen the operating necessities jointly. Immediately after the verification of such study, it will be left with the real project, that it would have to be completed within the next summer. The realization of the works could set off after the completion of the relative work on the node that regards the zone of Voltri, previewed towards the end of 2015 and for which the Liguria Region has asked to accelerate to the maximum the program. Quickly after the conclusion of these work the yards of the doubling of the railroad will be able to leave.
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