Al via the first experimental intermodal transport between the port of Vado Ligure and the Interporto of Turin



As preannounced in occasion of the recent subscription of the protocol of understanding between the Harbour Authority of Savona and the Interporto of Turin ( of 11 November 2015), this afternoon the first train destined will leave from the station of Vado Ligure Industrial Zone to connect the port of Vado Ligure with the interporto SITUATED of Turin Orbassano.

The convoy, symbolically renamed the "train of Christmas", it is composed of 16 wagons and it will transport 24 containers, between which seven container reefer for the fruit transport, and will arrive to the interporto to the 17,45 of tonight after a long travel 200 kilometers via Altar - S.Giuseppe of the duration in about three hours.

In performance to the lines it guides contained in the understanding protocol, draft of a service "realized pilot" for giving concreteness under consideration of feasibility of intermodal transport on the draft I go From Liguria-Orbassano that is defined by a working group composed from SITE, Harbour Authority of Savona, Trenitalia and RFI in the within of the table promoted from the city council member to the Transports and Infrastructures of the Region Piemonte, Francesco Balocco, and from the governmental commissioner for TAV Torino Lione, Paolo Foietta. The study has put in evidence as the secondary railway lines (as Savona-Turin) constitutes a fundamental resource for giving to timely answers to the requirements of the transport goods.

The Harbour Authority of Savona has emphasized that "beginning to work on these infrastructures a system can be set up that will have successively to integrate with the new great works today in yard, on the director Nord-Sud (Rhine-Alpine corridor) and East-West (Mediterranean corridor) and on the marine front (platform of Vado Ligure; expansions of the ports of Genoa and La Spezia), with the objective to quickly transfer the goods, through services of railway bobbin, from from Liguria ports to the intermodal centers of the hinterland, from which then they could be realized complete trains for I forward it to the European destinations".

"If specific - it has explained the harbour agency - the Savona-Turin line anticipates the typical constraints of an antiquated line (in terms of length and weight of the convoys), but also an elevated availability of traces for the transit of freight trains (15 day), than through operating modality adequately calibrated allow to realize a efficient and competitive intermodal service. Fundamental in so far as - it has emphasized the agency - it is the managed railway system from the Harbour Authority of Savona, than on one side it has invested resources own in the means purchase of maneuver and traction to dedicate to the connections between port and hinterland, from the other has tightened partnership operating with Serfer and Trenitalia (winners of the recent European ban), which own means fleet has entrusted in order to offer convenient services towards the main destinations of the harbour traffics".

"I hope that this first train - the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona has declared, Gian Luigi Miazza - can represent an element important in order to begin to redesign the transports and the logistics of the Italy North with particular reference to the intermodal corridor between Italy, France, Switzerland that, with the completion of the important investments under execution in the From Liguria port of Savona-Go, could be marked from the investment strategies of the Italian and foreign operators of the field".

"What it arrives today - has evidenced the city council member to the Transports of the Piemonte Region, Francesco Balocco - is a convoy loaded with symbols that demonstrate, that the determination and the will carry, as the train from Savona to Orbassano, "bonds yield". The Piemonte Region, is engaged to promote the transport of goods on rubber, and this is a first concrete, useful step to throws again of the interporto SITUATED and to the development of the connections, in Turin-Lyon optical. I thank all those, that they have returned this result possible".

"With this first experimental train - Giambattista Quirico has confirmed, SITE president - concreteness is given to the under way collaboration in the past few months, between all the involved subjects, with the perspective to start the Interporto of Orbassano towards new truths, looking to the Liguria as reference area, for a logistic new".