Inaugurated railway passage 4 of the New Port of Trieste



Today the conclusion of railway passage 4 of the New Port of Trieste is celebrated, work - it has emphasized the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of the giuliano port of call, Zeno D' Augustin - "will be able to pass from 140 to 200 trains weeklies magazine. We head - it has added - to become the first railway port of Italy and to more close 2016 with than 7.000 trains more enlivened and increase estimated in biennium 2014-16 of +40%. These are investments with great yield and demonstrate how much can be made already on hand with the resources".

The conclusion of the work is inaugurated with a railway convoy in escape from Pier VII of the port of Trieste, dedicated to the traffic of the container, directed towards Budapest. The new railway infrastructure is realized by the enterprises Cenedese, Sergio Monticolo and Bavila Constructions and has involved an investment of beyond a million euro, of which 600 thousand at the expense of Italian Railway Net (RFI) for the connection to the railroads of the Station of Trieste Marzio Field and 500 thousand at the expense of the Harbour Authority. In particular, the investment of the harbour agency has regarded, besides the restoration of the passage and the railroads in harbour area, also the potenziamento of the approached structures of control, a new customs emplacement let alone general accommodation of the area.

The harbour authority has remembered that the new work will above all allow to organize the passage directed towards the Station of Marzio Field of the trains in arrival and departure from Pier VII, while up to now all the terminals used the single railway passage number 3.

If for president of the Region Friuli Venice Julia, Debora Serracchiani the current investments on the giuliano port of call represent a "cultural change of the port" that "will increase the competitiveness in a context of great competition, but in which we have papers to play", for the territorial director Trieste production of RFI, Carlo De Giuseppe, "the inauguration today is the ulterior confirmation of the engagement of Italian Railway Net in the work of potenziamento of the railway infrastructure to the service of the port of Trieste for the connection to the European Corridors, Baltic - Adriatico and the Mediterranean. It is - it has added - the result of the synergy between all the involved actors, than from years they pursue, with success, the objective to increase the intermodal traffic of the giuliana platform".

Fabrizio Zerbini, president of Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT), the terminalista society that work on Pier VII, has announced that "in the first six months of the year the trains left from Pier VII have grown altogether of 12.5% and - has emphasized - this ulterior participation cannot that to see us satisfied for the concrete support to our investments also for the development of the railway traffic".