Study for the development of railway connections between the port of Ravenna and the Interporto of Parma



the week slid near the Harbour Authority of Ravenna is introduced the study developed in the within of the agreement undersigned between the harbour agency, the Emilia Romagna Region and CePIM- Interporto Parma in order to verify the possibility to realize, through the railway boosting of the logon, reports strategic and operating between the port of Ravenna and the Interporto of Parma.

Foundation ITL (Istituto Trasporti and Logistica) has illustrated the results of the study emphasizing that the railway connection has found the tangible interest from the operators involved in the job, above all in reference to the possibility to activate "a multiprodotto-multicliente" service with origin from Ravenna, functional to stimulate the shift modal for the distribution of goods not only destined to Parma and its territory, but also, through Interporto CePIM, in a position to continuing on guiding the international ones, towards wider markets.

"the experience lead with the port of Ravenna, and studied in these months from ITL - the managing director of CePIM has explained, Luigi Capitani - has been very positive, strong of the full collaboration of the participants, that I thank. It has afforded to realize an accurate analysis of the situation and to transform it in opportunity and therefore in concrete results. It is a model to get ahead in the near future and to repeat also in other occasions, with confidence in the innovation and ability to assume also entrepreneurial risks for the perseguimento of the objectives and the necessary investments. Regarding ours interporto, between the first ten in Europe, that of the transport goods via iron is an activity a lot important, in which we have believed concentrating you our efforts and passing in little years from a quota 18% to current 40% of goods enlivened via train - beyond two million tons on a total of approximately 5,4. We are developing new plans - it has announced Captains - in the first instance a new train multicustomer on the same draft, that it would crown with an ulterior success our strong will to increase the intermodal activity, like if of the CePIM-Barilla train, on which today we have made a focus in the course of the workshop".

"the Emilia Romagna Region - the regional city council member to the Transports has asserted, Raffaele Donini - tip a lot on the intermodalità and, in order to develop it, whereby studies, like that introduced, demonstrates the real interest of the operators, is ready to support such initiatives in concrete terms. As emphasized from the general manager Paolo Ferrecchi - it has evidenced the city council member - the measure of boosting promoted from the Emilia Romagna region has supported economically the start very 11 new railway connections in all the Region".

"the development of the intermodal transport from and for the port of Ravenna, first port of the Adriatic and third party Italian port to clearly of the oil - the president of the Harbour Authority of Ravenna has remembered, Galliano Di Marco - is a our objective, organic legacy to the Harbour plan "Hub". We want and we will be able to pass today from 15% to a 25%. For this we have involved in tightening way RFI, for what it regards the works of "last mile": extension of the ridge in right channel and underpasses in the city feature. Besides the strengthening of the infrastructure, but - it has specified Of Marco - we want also to construct to tight and profitable relationships with the intermodal nodes insides, first between all, own the Interporto of Parma".