Inaugurated the railway connection directed between the port of Livorno and the Tirrenica line



Today the new terminal of Livorno is inaugurated Dock that the directed railway connection between the Leighorn harbour port of call will allow and the railway line Tirrenica affording the passage of the container directly on national the railway net with the elimination of the passage from the port of call goods of Livorno Calambrone for all the coming or directed trains to the Tuscany Dock.

The work is realized with an investment of about 40 million euros, of which seven previewed from Contratto di Programma 2012-2016, part investments, undersigned from Italian Railway Net (RFI) and Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports (MIT), and the quota remaining at the expense of the Region, between deep deep own and European FESR 2007-2013. The railway system Livorno Dock is equipped with three railroads to module from 750 meters, so as previews the European standard.

To the inauguration ceremony they were you anticipate the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, the president of the Tuscany Region, Enrico Rossi, the managing director and general manager of Italian Railway Net, Maurizio Gentile, the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, the mayor of Livorno, Filippo Nogarin, and the president of the Province, Alessandro Franchi.

"Today to Livorno - minister Delrio has said - the meaning of the "useful works" feels, works that involves more efficiency, the more competitiveness, more sustainability. To Livorno Dock, with the new terminal goods, we complete the last mile that will allow with the logistics, and therefore to the enterprises that they make use some, of being effective, putting in direct dialogue the System Sea with the railway net".

The president of the Tuscany Region has emphasized that "this new work represents a decisive dowel of the full modernization of the livornese port of call. The directed railway connection - it has found Enrico Rossi - will make to assume to the port of Livorno a central role in the Mediterranean".

"The works that today we deliver to Livorno and to the entire logistic system of the Country - have evidenced the managing director and general manager of RFI, Maurizio Gentile - they allow to return the Tuscan harbour port of call an important hub for the traffic goods on railroad from and for the Italian and European logistic poles. All this thanks to the electrification of about the three kilometers of connection between Livorno Calambrone and Livorno Dock, to the railway doubling between Calambrone and the zone of the New Port and to the important participations of adaptation of the revolving railway bridge on the channel of the Navicelli for the passage of the yachts".

"Thanks to direct routing of the goods on national the railway net - it has observed the commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti - Livorno has all papers in order in order to become the first true harbour port of call railway Italian. In the Mediterranean us of he is not another similar one. One does not forget that on the effectiveness Antwerp dock-railroad it has constructed own fortune".

While, in occasion of the today's inauguration, minister Delrio has announced to have designated Stefano Corsini to the charge of president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern, agency that, accorpando the Harbour Authorities of Livorno and Piombino, as well as on these two ports will have jurisdiction also on the ports of call of Capraia, Portoferraio, Rio Marina and Cavo. Delrio has specified that such designation will be notified today to the president of the Tuscany Region for the necessary understanding on the nomination.

Ingegner the Corsini, class 1958, are managing of the Department for the Programming and the Coordination of Economic Politics (DIPE) of the Prime Minister's Office, administration for which works from 1996. Between the assignments covered publics, figure that of leader of the Defended of the Coasts near APAT (Agency for the protection of the Atmosphere and technical), agency for services become Service then ISPRA (advanced Institute for the protection and the environmental research).