RFI, the Italian railway infrastructure are adapted to the transport of Tir with towings and container high cube on trains



The railway infrastructure for the transport of the goods at all "dis… is not connected" and allows the transport of Tir with towings and container high cube on the trains. It has emphasized Italian Railway Net (RFI) replying to the reliefs to the national infrastructural connections which moved yesterday in the course of the convention "organized connected Italy dis…" from Confcommercio ( on 27 May 2015).

RFI has specified that "in the industrial areas that develop to the greater traffic goods (North Italy and Po Valley) the shapes previewed for galleries and railway net is already in wide part functional to the passage of the trains loaded with container of great dimensions (high cube), of the seed-towings and the so-called "travelling freeway" (Tir until four meters of height, complete of engine and towing, loaded on special wagons goods). Sul East-West corridor - it has evidenced the society of the group Railroads of the State that manages the Italian railway net - not is already limitations of shape between Trieste and Milan. Within june the work of adaptation between Milan and Turin will be last".

"In spite of these infrastructural potenziamenti in the Italy North and Val Padana - it has found RFI - the traffic goods on iron has not recorded increments in the last year".

Moreover Italian Railway Net has remembered that "various participations for the adaptation of the lines of connection with Switzerland are on" and that "within the 2017 those for the pass of Uproar will be completed, while the line for the pass of Luino will be to standard in 2020. The pass of the Sempione already is adapted".

"Regarding the connections North-South - it has continued the company - RFI is completing the participations of adaptation of the railway infrastructure, fine work December 2016, of the director Adriatica, integral part of the transeuropea net and fundamental axis of the intermodal rail shipment, also by virtue of its cross-sectional connections that combine it to the ports of the Tyrrhenian low and the Ionian one".

At last, regarding the ports, Italian Railway Net, has specified that "of 15 national strategic ports already today 11 they are connected to the railway Network".

Confcommercio has replied evidencing that "the official note of RFI does not make that to restate how much from we yesterday denounced: the impossibility of intermodal railway traffic with container high cube or travelling freeway from the South towards the North of the Country". "We feel sorry ourselves of the fact - of Confcommercio has commented vice-president, Paolo Ugge ' - than RFI confirms the correctness of our analysis. In fact the official note of RFI does not make that to restate how much from we yesterday denounced: the impossibility of intermodal railway traffic with container high cube or travelling freeway from the South towards the North of the Country and the incompleteness of the direct connections of the national ports with main the railway net".

"The participations in order to resolve such criticalities - it has emphasized vice-president of Confcommercio - have priority strategic valence and must, therefore, be upgraded and accelerated in order to offer to the Country effective and sustainable alternatives to the "all road" on the entire national territory".