the Region continuous Venice Friuli to support the intermodal railway services from and for the port of Trieste



The regional committee of the Friuli Venice Julia has decided today to continue with the work of support to the intermodal railway services from and for the port of Trieste assigning to the Harbour Authority of the port of call a million financing two euro. "Also thanks to the determining contribution of the Region for the development of the intermodalità - it has found the regional city council member to Infrastructures and the Territory, Mariagrazia Santoro - during the last few years the port of Trieste is placed in the conditions for guaranteeing and for developing the net of own intermodal railway connections that represents a case of excellence in the within of the Italian portualità. The intermodalità is functional to necessary the railway services to the connections between the port of call of Trieste and the European markets of reference of the Center and East Europe".

Remembering that in the 2015 railway traffic goods from and for the port he has been of about 3.000 trains, with an increment of 3% on the year precedence, the city council member has rimarcato the international vocation of the port of call "that to 75% draft goods that arrive (Extreme and Middle East from abroad) and are destined abroad, that is to the Center and East Europe".

Moreover the regional committee has deliberated the adhesion of the Region, in quality of progettuale partner, to the project Alpine Innovation for Combined Transport (AlpInnoCT), that European Alpine Space 2014-2020 will be introduced in the context of the transnational program of territorial Cooperation, according to ban, first phase. The project is promoted in quality of lead partner from Bavaria and has as general objective the improvement of the competitiveness of the transport arranged of the goods through a optimization integrated and transnational of the transport of the goods between all the actors involved in the chain of transports.

"The main activity that the service of regional and local public transport of the Region is proposed to realize with this project - has explained the Santoro city council member - it is represented by the study and the appraisal of the application of innovative solutions in matter of transport arranged along the director between the port of Trieste and the productive areas of Bavaria, of understanding and in coordination with the Harbour Authority of Trieste, that it to be included among the partner progettuali.

The project among other things previews the optimization of the future European production of arranged transport, the optimization of the intermodal units and the definition of models for the participation to the arranged transport, particularly by the small and averages enterprises.

The estimated total costs of the project will be of 3,1 million euros, of which 100 thousand euros which budget assigned to the Region Friuli Venice Julia (European deep which co-financed 85% from and remaining 15% of deep civil servants).