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From the 2020 volume of railway traffic goods on the Rotterdam-Genoa corridor it will be able to grow of 20%
the increment will be possible thanks to the new gallery of Saint Gottardo and to the plain railroad through the Alps
May 7, 2015
With the opening of the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, programmed for 11 Decembers 2016, from 2020 an increase until 20% of the railway traffic volume will be possible goods on the European corridor Rotterdam-Genoa. It has emphasized Michail Stahlhut, managing director of railway company Helvetic SBB International Cargo, taking part yesterday to the international fair Transport Logistic 2015 of Monk of Bavaria.
Stahlhut in fact has remembered that "for the traffic of international transit the new gallery of Saint Gottardo constitutes a first important step towards the railroad of plain through the Alps, an innovation that will considerably transform the scene of the logistics in Europe". The CEO of SBB International Cargo has specified that such increase of the traffic goods however will be conditioned to the fact "that also the adjacent Countries, Germany and Italy, continue with the work of widening of the necessary lines of access". Moreover - it has specified - it is necessary that the corridor of four meters on the axis north-south through Saint Gottardo is completed, in order to afford the transport of high semitowings four meters on the railway wagons.
"This - it has emphasized Peter Jedelhauser, in charge of the Organization of project axis north-south of Saint Gottardo of group SBB CFF FFS - will increase in remarkable measure the competitiveness of the transport on track": beginning from 2020 it will be possible to transfer from the road to the railroad until 210.000 trucks in more regarding the current ones and within the 2030 this figure it could quite go up to 240.000. "The work in sight of the mass in service of the work of the century is online with the tempistica - has confirmed Jedelhauser - and in the next weeks we will begin to work to the final draft".
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With the opening of the gallery of base of Saint Gottardo, programmed for 11 Decembers 2016, from 2020 an increase until 20% of the railway traffic volume will be possible goods on the European corridor Rotterdam-Genoa. It has emphasized Michail Stahlhut, managing director of railway company Helvetic SBB International Cargo, taking part yesterday to the international fair Transport Logistic 2015 of Monk of Bavaria.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
