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SBB CFF FFS Cargo, Hupac and Contargo ask the deep ones in order to start the construction of the great container bimodale terminal of Basel Nord
The mass in service of the platform is previewed for 2019
December 2, 2015
Gateway Basel Nord, the society constituted at the beginning of this summer from railway group Swiss SBB CFF FFS Cargo with the intermodal operator Swiss Hupac and that Contargo German in order to realize the new container bimodale terminal road-track of Basel Nord ( on 24 June 2015), it has introduced to the Federal Office of Transports (UFT) of Switzerland the demand for financing for the realization of the project.
The costs estimated for the construction of the logistic platform, that it will rise on the area of the old station of shunting of Weil am Rhein, pile to 73 million franchi Swiss (67 million euros).
Gateway Basel Nord has remembered that the mass in service of the bimodale terminal is previewed for 2019 and that the new logistic platform in north-western Switzerland will be accessible, without some discrimination, to all the users interested to the container transfer and other cargo units of the arranged traffic. The three associates have remembered moreover that Gateway Basel Nord is opened also to other partner.
A second phase of the project previews that the Swiss Rhenish ports integrate the terminal with a new harbour basin for the trimodale transfer (road, track and water) and that they connect it via water to the Rhenish port of Kleinhüningen.
Gateway Basel Nord has emphasized that the new trimodale terminal will rise in strategic position for the international traffic goods and will afford to group the transports of container deriving from the traffic of Swiss import and export. The great terminal - it has evidenced joint venture - will create so a possibility of transfer of efficient, up to now absent container in Switzerland, in order to manage the flows of the transport of goods in constant increase between the marine Switzerland and ports and will resolve the problems of ability to the Rhenish port of Kleinhüningen. The container Swiss of the fluvial traffic and the railroad will meet in a point and will be transferred by the road to the track in order to continue the travel in Switzerland.
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Gateway Basel Nord, the society constituted at the beginning of this summer from railway group Swiss SBB CFF FFS Cargo with the intermodal operator Swiss Hupac and that Contargo German in order to realize the new container bimodale terminal road-track of Basel Nord 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
