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a new railway service goods connects Frankfurt and Bologna
It is realized in collaboration from Cemat, DB Schenker Rail, Interporto Bologna, Kombiverkehr, Lokomotion and RTC
September 21, 2015
Goods is activated a new railway service that connects Frankfurt and Bologna realized through a collaboration between the Italians Rail Traction Company (RTC), Cemat and Interporto Bologna and Germans Kombiverkehr, Lokomotion and DB Schenker Rail. The train runs along the line of Brenner and on the Verona-Bologna feature where Italian Railway Net (RFI) has carried out recently the upgrade to code PC/80 and P400 in order to receive the container high cube and the semitowings with height of four meters.
The departure from Frankfurt happens the friday to hours 21 with arrival to Bologna in the night of saturday, while the departure from Bologna happens Sunday morning to hours 6.30. Specifying that it is previewed to increase frequency of the train when the service consolidates, RTC has specified that the service is proposed in open access to all the logistic operators and of the transport that have the necessity to enliven, also with own equipment, flows goods from and for Frankfurt.
Moreover RTC has announced that the main user of the service is interested at the market of Greece, with the semitowings that give Bologna reach the port of Ancona on the road in order to embark themselves on the ro-ro, and that therefore Bologna could become hub of reference for the ports of Tyrrhenian (the Livorno and La Spezia) and of the Adriatic (Ravenna and Ancona) also for the sea traffic short.
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Goods is activated a new railway service that connects Frankfurt and Bologna realized through a collaboration between the Italians Rail Traction Company (RTC), Cemat and Interporto Bologna and Germans Kombiverkehr, Lokomotion and DB Schenker Rail. The train runs along the line of Brenner and on the Verona-Bologna feature where Italian Railway Net (RFI) has carried out recently the upgrade to code PC/80 and P400 in order to receive the container high cube and the semitowings with height of four meters.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
