Agreement RFI, Region FVG and AdSP of the Adriatic Oriental in order to improve the railway connections of the port of Trieste



Today to Rome the managing director and general manager of Italian Railway Net (RFI), Maurizio Gentile, president of the Region Friuli Venice Julia, Debora Serracchiani, and the president of the Authority of Harbour System (AdSP) of Mare Adriatico Orientale, Zeno D' Augustin, have undersigned an agreement in order to improve the railway connections of the port of Trieste, in order to increase to the quota the traffic goods on ship and iron and in order to guarantee an authentic transport intermodal and sustainable cargo from and towards the markets anyway of Europe and of the Mediterranean Sea.

The improvements, realized from AdSP and RFI, will interest the new Town development plan of the area of Trieste Marzio Field and the connection with the harbour, destined areas to the business activities, of the Franco Nuovo Point. The total economic investment will be pairs to 70 million euros, of which 50 million financed from the remaining RFI and part from the Authority of Harbour System.

Italian Railway net will plan and realize the participations in order to improve the connection of the port with the national net, while to the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Orientale the work of adaptation of the railway systems inside of the port is entrusted, hand in hand with the RFI activities. The Region Friuli Venice Julia will have instead the task of superviewing and controlling all the previewed activities.

The underwriters of the agreement have emphasized that to the term of the participations the goods journeyed by the port of Trieste will be able to intercept two of the four Cores Corridor TRIES European that cross Italy: that Mediterranean, that it connects the Iberian Peninsula to the border of the East Europe passing for the Italian ridge Turin - Trieste; and the Baltic Corridor - Adriatic, that it exactly connects important Italian ports as Ravenna and Trieste to Austria and the markets of the Europe North.

"The understanding - it has evidenced Debora Serracchiani - creates the conditions in order to make of the port of call of Trieste an European reference of the intermodal attraction in a position to multiplying the traffic volumes, already today in constant increase. The agreement today - it has added - marks a crucial passage because a shared town-planning strategy between the competent subjects second previews vital participations on the railway functionality of the port of Trieste. The triestine port of call stablily becomes ring of conjunction between the system Country and the European nets: this quality jump is yields of a job of strong coordination and options and competences that had in the past not found a synthesis and that it today transforms a vocation in a project of development equipped on solid bases".