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the Switzerland-Italy agreement for the financing of the widening of the two railway passes of Uproar and Luino
From Helvetic part the investment will pile to 120 million euros, from Italian part to 40 million euros
January 28, 2014
Today to Bern the representatives of the Italian and Swiss government have undersigned the agreement on the financing of the works of widening previewed for the two railway passes of Uproar and Luino of connection between Basel and the Italy North. The understanding, signed from the Italian minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, and from the councilwoman federal Helvetic to the Transports, Doris Leuthard, previews that Italy invests 40 million euros on the Milan-Uproar draft that takes part of the strategic corridor Rotterdam-Genoa inserted in the nets TRIES of the European Union, while Switzerland will on hand place RFI 120 million euros (Italian Railway Net) for the adaptations of the shapes of the galleries on the line of Luino, alternative distance for the transport of the goods that takes part of the comprehensive nets TRIES. The adaptation will afford the cargo passage goods with height to the angles of four meters and the use of cargo trains of the length of 750 meters.
"That reached today - Maurizio Lupi has commented - is a success of all and the two Countries in sight of a common objective and accesss code mutual. It does not have sense - it has specified the minister - to speak about "give", it is interest ours like is Swiss interest to realize sure infrastructures, for this we have worked profitably together. In an analogous case, Turin-Lyon, succeeds the inverse one, we invests more of France. I add that on the completion of the European corridor Rotterdam-Genoa, that it passes from Switzerland and it connects the great ports of the Europe North with the Mediterranean, our government has invested a billion and 800 million for the realization of the Third Pass between Milan and Genoa. Others two billions of euro are already programmed like investment on this corridor in period 2014-2020".
"Is Swiss interest - it has confirmed the Doris Leuthard councilwoman - to transport the goods until the great terminals in the area of Milan. This demands the works of widening in Italy. A efficient railway infrastructure re-enters in the interest of Switzerland, for this the federal Council and the Parliament has decided to finance with a contribution unsecured the widening intense activities on the access drafts to the NFTA in Italy".
the Helvetic government has evidenced that the transformation of the axis Basel-Saint Gottardo-North Italy in railway corridor from four meters "is a central element of Swiss politics of transfer of the traffic from the road to the track. Thanks to such corridor, in future the semitowings with a height to the angles of four meters could be transported on track also on the axis of Saint Gottardo. The attraction of the draft of base of Saint Gottardo will turn out some increased and to the arranged transport transalpine and the upgraded competitiveness of the railroad". In such a way Switzerland will supply "an important contribution to the modernization of the European corridors for the traffic goods".
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Today to Bern the representatives of the Italian and Swiss government have undersigned the agreement on the financing of the works of widening previewed for the two railway passes of Uproar and Luino of connection between Basel and the Italy North. The understanding, signed from the Italian minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, and from the councilwoman federal Helvetic to the Transports, Doris Leuthard, previews that Italy invests 40 million euros on the Milan-Uproar draft that takes part of the strategic corridor Rotterdam-Genoa inserted in the nets TRIES of the European Union, while Switzerland will on hand place RFI 120 million euros (Italian Railway Net) for the adaptations of the shapes of the galleries on the line of Luino, alternative distance for the transport of the goods that takes part of the comprehensive nets TRIES. The adaptation will afford the cargo passage goods with height to the angles of four meters and the use of cargo trains of the length of 750 meters.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
