the first intermodal service ship/train between Greece and central Europe through the Venetian terminal of Fusina


Part today from the Venetian terminal of the Freeways of the Sea of Fusina, to Port Marghera, the first train from the lagoon port for Frankfurt for the trailer transport (truck without engine) via Brenner until the markets of Central Europe. The start of the service with a first long train beyond 500 meters that carry 13 wagons (for 26 trailer), happens to single three days from the test of the revamping of the railway line for Fusina, made unusable from years '70 when it was used in order to transport aluminum and bauxite.

the train, organized and commercialized from the Kombiverkehr societies and commissioned from the road haulage society Greek-German Thomaidis GmbH, collects the goods to Frankfurt and part via Brenner the friday for Venice (Fusina) where discharge and recharges the goods with Greece destination. From the trailer they are boarded there on ships ro-ro of the Grimaldi group which work a directed service, with trisettimanale frequency, between Venice and Patrasso. The two ships employed from the partenopeo group on the line have each an ability to approximately 220 trailer. Of return, the goods coming from Greece and disembarked to Fusina from the ships of the shipowning group is loaded, the saturday, on the train with destination Germany and from there towards other nordeuropee resorts.

the objective is to double the current frequency shortly weekly magazine of the service taking advantage of the speed of a connection that in single three days delivery the goods directly on the reference markets.

the Harbour Authority of Venice has evidenced that with the initiative Porto Marghera it recommences to take advantage of the infrastructural patrimony of 135 kilometers of railroads, 40 kilometers of roads, seven fiber optic kilometers, 12 kilometers of operating docks accumulated in one hundred history years and remained made unusable for decades.

"the new connection - it has found the president of the harbour agency, Paolo Costa - takes advantage of winning geography of the Venetian port of call for the benefit of the entire Northeast, of Italy and Europe. The intermodal market of pure (the ship more train) has enormous a potential one that today takes advantage of the trailer transported from the ships ro-ro and that tomorrow it will be accompanied with I forward it via railroad also of the container. A potential one that will be expressed completely once realized the offshore-onshore harbour system that will give again to Venice nautical accessibility of which it needs and the efficiency that Italy and the enterprises of the northeast complain".

"the intermodal connection Frankfurt - Venice - Patrasso - it has emphasized corporate commercial director the Short Sea Shipping of the Grimaldi group, Guido Grimaldi - is an example of best practice in Pan-European within. Through this initiative the European societies of transport and will not be able to have use of a service of fast, punctual, economic, sure transport, let alone ambientalmente compatible between the heart of Europe and the Mediterranean Oriental, via the port of call of Marghera, thanks to I use it of two ships ro-ro whose cargo ability has revolutionized the rotabili traffic goods on the adriatic drafts Italy-Greece. Being the service dedicated exclusively to the traffic goods - it has specified Guido Grimaldi - it will not be subject to limitations of cargo ability in the summery season, that they are typical of fleeting mixed ships goods/, and will afford to accelerate that process of "trailerizzazione" that our group is getting ahead during the last few years".

Gianfranco Zoletto and Maurizio Boschiero, president and managing director of Venice Ro-Port Mos, the society that manages the intermodal terminal of Fusina, have evidenced that today the complete terminal "its first phase of starter with the activation of the railway line and the operativity of that intermodal exchange that returns it a unicum in Italy and a efficient and interesting platform for the great operators of the logistics. The arrival of the train - they have observed Zoletto and Boschiero - allows to start that process of broken new creation that, taking advantage of the economies given from the combination iron-rubber-ship, it opens for new Venice and the Northeast markets".