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Also in the 2014 port of it has confirmed its Italian supremacy of railway handlings
The traffic has been pairs to about 118 thousand railway wagons for a total almost seven thousand trains in arrival and departure
December 30, 2014
In the 2014 railway traffic from and for the port of it has been of about 118 thousand wagons for a total almost seven thousand trains in arrival and departure, pairs to an increment of 10% on 2013. Also for this year, therefore, it is confirmed a handling of container for railway way pairs to 35% of all the containerized trade dealt from the port break, percentage that is elevated between the Italian ports.
The Harbour Authority of has emphasized that draft of an Italian supremacy, with little analogous examples in Europe, that it is destined to being decidedly exceeded from the same from Liguria port that heads to reach 50% of the containerized volumes transported at track graces also to the development plan of the port, the potenziamento of the railway system and to the engagement of the new society La Spezia Shunting delegated Railways to manage the entire railway service of the port ( on 28 November 2013).
"The transport on railroad - the president of the Harbour Authority of has remembered, Lorenzo Forcieri - represents the modality of more ecological and sustainable transport and is, from always, an element that strongly marks our port of call. The increment of handlings of containers on track, obtained also this year, is an optimal result that rewards the decision to head with determination in this direction to go to 50% of the enlivened containers".
The managing director of the terminalista society La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) of the group Contship Italy, Michele Giromini, has evidenced that "the attainment of this result is the confirmation that the investments that the group is making gives theirs yields: the port of - it has found - today is a efficient system, than it is proposed to the Italian and European customers as real intermodal platform, with the only innovation in Italy of a society that manages the entire railway service of the port, La Spezia Shunting Railways. That of this year is a result that fills up to us of pride, aware that is only a stage of a distance that heads for still greater goals".
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