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Finished to the work for the realization of the railway port of call goods of Capannori-Porcari (Lucca)
the total investment is piled to beyond 35 million euros
December 18, 2014
They are finished to the work for the realization of the railway port of call goods of Capannori-Porcari that not only represents one of the more important works realized in province of Lucca in last the thirty years for the entity of the total investment, that it is piled to beyond 35 million euros, but above all because the transfer from rubber will allow with track of the produced ones of the numerous companies of the Luccan area, in particular those of the cartario district.
In order to safeguard the peaks of delivery and the quality of the service, in the christmas period of the festivity the activities of refuel/defuel of the wagons will be transferred in gradual way from the current port of call of Lucca to the new port of call of Capannori-Porcari beginning from on January 12, 2015. In the transient period, that it will finish at the end of the next month, and before the entrance operatively of the new port of call it will continue to being active also that of Lucca, than successively it will be dismantled.
To the investment they have participated with 31 million euros Italian Railway Net (RFI), with 1,5 million the Province of Lucca for the adaptation of the practicability of ignited to the remaining port of call and with quota the companies paper manifacturing for the execution of the connections to the plants.
While the work continues in order to complete also the tronchetti railway for the direct connection of the main companies that have joined to the program agreement, the institutions and RFI have managed a project in order to implement the port of call with ulterior works to the aim to transform it in a real intermodal center. In February it is in program the organization of a convention that will place to the center of the reflections the new railway port of call, its potentialities, the actions necessary in order to favor a displacement of the traffic goods from the rubber to the track.
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