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the Spanish government has authorized the construction of the railway access south to the port of Barcelona
Previewed an investment of 149,8 million euros
June 15, 2016
The port of Barcelona will be equipped of a railway access from south with an investment of 149,8 million euros for the realization of a line that will have gauge European standard UIC. The green light to the project is given friday slid from the Council of Ministers Spanish that has approved of the subscription of two specific agreements.
The first agreement, that it will be signed by the Ministry of Public Works, from the Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF), from the Harbour Authority of Barcelona, Ferrocarrils de the Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) and from Puertos of the Estado, is relative to the definition of the financial contributions for the realization of the new railway access for total costs estimated exactly in 149,8 million euros, of which 77,2 million euros at the expense of ADIF and 72,6 million euros at the expense of the Harbour Authority and with the contribution of deep European CEF pairs to 36,1 million euros granted in 2014.
According to agreement, that it will be signed by the Ministry of Public Works, from the Generalitat de Cataluña, FGC and ADIF, it will presee the transfer to these last of some infrastructures of property of the Generalitat de Cataluña (for a length of railway line pairs to about two kilometers) and, in the picture of the performance and the exercise of the new southern railway access to the port of Barcelona, their inclusion in the railway net of general interest (RFIG).
Last year the traffic on track enlivened from the port of Barcelona has been of 2,6 million tons on a total of about 47 million tons of goods enlivened by the Catalan port of call.
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The port of Barcelona will be equipped of a railway access from south with an investment of 149,8 million euros for the realization of a line that will have gauge European standard UIC. The green light to the project is given friday slid from the Council of Ministers Spanish that has approved of the subscription of two specific agreements.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
