the port of Trieste confirmation fulcrum of the intermodal services of the German group Kombiverkehr



The Harbour Authority of Trieste has evidenced the increasing importance that the giuliano harbour port of call is assuming in the within of the Network of services of the intermodal operator German Kombiverkehr, that it has begun to invest in the Italian port in 2008 on the managed Pier Sixth from the group Parisi (Europe Multipurpose Terminals - EMT) with a first Mannheim-Trieste train, with frequency weekly magazine for a total of 52 annual trains. From - it has remembered the harbour agency - you it has been a gradual increase with new connections from the two hub of Monaco and Ludwigshafen so much so that in the 2014 German colossus it has dealt 1,059 couples of trains on the Pier YOU, that is three trains in arrival and three in departure to the day and has transported 66,156 intermodal units there (equivalents to the container from 45 feet).

As it has emphasized the same Kombiverkehr in its last relative annual report to 2014, the port of Trieste has become the intermodal fulcrum of the service of the German company that connects Germany with the Asian part of Turkey, that 2013 are introduced in October and that in single four days affords to transport semitowings, container and cases you furnish from Ludwigshafen and Monaco of Bavaria until Trieste from where, boarded on ferries, they reach the Turkish ports of Pendik, Haydarpasa, Cesme and Mersin ( on 30 September 2013).

Moreover from last January Kombiverker it offers to an arranged service railroad-ferry that connects the port of Lavrio, in the attica region of Greece, with Trieste and the terminals in Germany. "The route for Greece and Turkey through the port of Trieste - it has evidenced the company in annual the report - is tax on the market which valid alternative to the transport via earth through the Balkans. The services with the employment of the train - it has specified Kombiverkehr - are inaugurated in October 2013 and the volumes are already advanced regarding those on the precedence broken via earth, fact that is attributable to the speed and reliability of the trimodale transport".

Finding that Kombiverkehr has seen potential of the port of Trieste which the natural hinge in the connection between the Mediterranean oriental and Nord and Centro Europa, the commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Zeno D' Augustin - draft of "an important news has rimarcato that confirmation the confidence that the Kombiverkehr is laying by in the port of Trieste. The volumes transported with the intermodalità on some drafts - it has added - have exceeded those street ones, thanks to the greater reliability and sustainability. The services moreover are particularly apt in order to transport dangerous heavy shipments and the goods on long distance in sure and efficient way. Currently - it has announced Of Augustin - on terminal EMT we have reached a percentage of 75% of rail shipment on the total traffic, respect to a 25% of road traffic. To Trieste we are investing many resources on the intermodal one and is important to see that some positive signs arrive just from the market and the foreign operators".