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Agreement between SBB CFF FFS Cargo, Hupac and Contargo in order to collaborate to the management of the future terminal of Basel Nord
Understanding in order to constitute a society that will take care of the transfer activities railroad/road
August 18, 2014
Railway company Helvetic SBB CFF FFS Cargo has signed an agreement with the Hupac compatriot and the Contargo German with the objective to constitute a society for the management of the future international terminal for container of Basel Nord. SBB CFF FFS Cargo has specified that the understanding is relative to the first phase of the project that previews activity of bimodale transport, with the transfer railroad/road, while in a second phase, with the construction of the connection for the ships (harbour basin 3), the terminal will be connected to the inland navigation through the Rhenish port of Kleinhüningen and with this trimodale widening road/railroad/ship previews that other companies of the harbour field enter to take part of the new society.
SBB CFF FFS Cargo intends to start the procedure of authorization of the plan for the new terminal in the fourth trimester of this year with the objective to return the first phase of the system for the transfer between road operating and track realized in collaboration with the societies of intermodal transport Hupac and Contargo within the end of 2016.
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