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Adjudicated to the Sogemar (Contship Italy) the contest for the realization and management of the intermodal terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro
the new railway gateway will have to be realized in 18 months
November 20, 2015
The Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has adjudicated the contest for the realization and management of the new intermodal terminal of the calabrian port to the Sogemar, the society for the intermodal field and the logistics that is of entire property of the Contship Italy, company that through the controlled Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) manages the container terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro.
The contract, that it re-enters between the works previewed from the Triennial Operations plan, has a total financing of 40 million euros, of which 20 million as public contribution at the expense of the Harbour Authority deriving from the PON Nets and Mobility 2007 - 2013 while other 20 million euros will be invested by the private one.
The harbour agency has emphasized that the new railway gateway will be a strategic infrastructure, complementary to the activity of transhipment of the container, that it will have the task to intercept part of the traffics enlivened between the Far East currently managed and Europe from the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. With the realization of the terminal - he has explained the authority - Gioia Tauro heads to being a communitarian intermodal passage, joining in the trans-European axis of the Helsinki corridor - the TV assistant as node of national importance and European crossroads of various modalities of transport.
The new railway gateway, that it will have to be realized within 18 months from the minutes of delivery of the work, will be extended in the territory comprised between the Municipalities of Gioia Tauro and of San Ferdinando and it will be developed partially inside of the port in the customs area in concession to terminalista MCT and the zone of the interporto. The intermodal terminal will occupy a surface pairs to 325 thousand square metres and will have a total length of new railroads of 3.825 meters, of which 2,761 in area terminals containers and 1,064 in the intermodal terminal. The railway connection to the sheds in order to allow the cargo and drainage of cars with its inside and the insertion in the three existing railroads of shunters is previewed, in way such to be profitable independent uses it of the single railroads.
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