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the Harbour Authority of Trieste asks the restoration for the circulation on "Transalpine" the railway draft
the temporary suspension of the percorribilità - the agency emphasizes - constitutes an important limitation to the access via iron to infrastructures of the port
June 25, 2014
The president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Marina Monassi, has sent to a note to the summit of the group Italian Railroads of the State (FS), and for information to president of the Region Friuli Venice Julia and to the Head office for the Ports of the ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, with respect to the issue of the temporary suspension of the percorribilità on the railway draft Field Opicina Marzio-Villa, best known as "Transalpine".
Monassi has placed the accent on the fact that such internal provision of Italian Railway Net in the substance constitutes an important limitation to the access via iron to infrastructures of the port of Trieste, in evident contrast with the obligations assumed from Italy in international center as a result of the treatys and of the relative devices opportunely sign about the engagement to maintain widest accessibility to the port.
Moreover Marina Monassi has raised awareness the attention of the Head office for the Ports of the competent ministry to verify if the maintenance in exercise of infrastructures in question, to beyond the aspects of mere maintenance and/or operating costs, can in all respects cover character of obligatory nature in head to the manager of the net, also in force of the contributions distributed in the time from the State to the group FS as a result of the international agreements sign with Austria and Hungary for I use it of the port of Trieste.
Al group FS, in particular, is restated that this railway line, also not coming regularly used for the traffic goods because of the important slope, represents an eventual one via of emergency however available in case of extraordinary events that can incidently interrupt the coastal railway connection, yes not to completely isolate the harbour systems of Trieste from the national and European net.
The president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste therefore has asked a prompt restoration for the circulation on the railway infrastructure, taking part ready on the technical disadvantages that of it have determined the temporary interruption.
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The president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Marina Monassi, has sent to a note to the summit of the group Italian Railroads of the State (FS), and for information to president of the Region Friuli Venice Julia and to the Head office for the Ports of the ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, with respect to the issue of the temporary suspension of the percorribilità on the railway draft Field Opicina Marzio-Villa, best known as "Transalpine".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
