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From the port of Koper the first train has left directed block with producing agricultural and food- to Rotterdam
The experimental railway travel has happened in the within of the European project Fresh Food Corridors
March 9, 2016
Saturday from the port of Koper has left the first train block entirely loaded with producing agricultural and food- directed to Rotterdam. (FFC), whose objective is to realize a sure, sustainable and efficient system for the transport of fresh food from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus to the European Union through a connection between the Trans-Mediterranean Transport Network (TMT-T), the transmediterranea net of multimodale transport, and the Trans-European Transport Network (TRIES), the program of the European Union for the potenziamento of the nets of transport of the EU ( on 3 December 2015).
The cargo, constituted from producing sent from Israeli exporter, has reached friday by sea in the Slovenian port where the container reefer is loaded on the railway convoy. The Harbour Authority of Koper has emphasized that draft of the first train block loaded exclusively with containers refrigerator that has crossed Europe from south to north, travel that has allowed a saving of six days regarding the time necessary in order to complete usual marine shipments of producing perishable by Israel to the nordeuropei ports.
The Slovenian harbour agency has specified in the next few months that the attention will be focused on the optimization of the rail shipment, to the aim to reduce transit the Time ulteriorly, and on the finding of volumes of goods to load on the train in the travel of return from north to south.
Soon others experimental travels will be realized by the ports of Venice and Marseilles-Fos.
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Saturday from the port of Koper has left the first train block entirely loaded with producing agricultural and food- directed to Rotterdam. (FFC), whose objective is to realize a sure, sustainable and efficient system for the transport of fresh food from Egypt, Israel, Jordan and Cyprus to the European Union through a connection between the Trans-Mediterranean Transport Network (TMT-T), the transmediterranea net of multimodale transport, and the Trans-European Transport Network (TRIES), the program of the European Union for the potenziamento of the nets of transport of the EU 
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