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a new intermodal service will connect the port of Trieste with Kiel and the market of the Baltic Sea
Will be operating front line along the corridor TRIES the Adriatic-Baltic Sea
January 23, 2017
the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Orientale has announced that next 25 January will leave from the harbour port of call of Trieste the first programmed intermodal train to long distance on the director Kiel-Göteborg, for the transport of containers, semitows and cases you furnish, service with arrival and departure via sea from Turkey/Greece having like origin/destination the market of the Baltic area. Draft of the first operating connection along the corridor TRIES the Adriatic-Baltic Sea.
the train will leave to hours 11 from Trieste and will reach Kiel, in Germany, to the 13 of the successive day. From the cargo it will continue here via sea to go to the Swedish destination of Göteborg in the morning of friday. The covered railway distance between Trieste and Kiel is pairs to 1.360 kilometers, to which 234 nautical miles for the final destination of Göteborg join, with transit a railway Time of 26 hours and 14 hours via ferry for the marine draft.
the train will be composed of 16 wagons "Little" doubles quantity with a cargo ability pairs to 32 UTI (intermodal units from 45 ' or 13,6 meters). The service will have an initial frequency of a train to the week and will quickly be elevated to three spins weeklies magazine in sight of an increase of the cargo volumes.
the service will be started upon request of the Ekol Turk, logistic operator who for a long time uses terminal YOU EMT of the Pier of the port of Trieste and that recently of it he has acquired the participation of majority. To the realization of the intermodal produced one TX Logistik and Mercitalia Rail for the railway traction will collaborate, Alpe Adria and the same TX Logistik in quality of MTO, and Stena Line that the marine prosecuzione until Göteborg will cure.
"This plan - it has evidenced the president of the AdSP of Mare Adriatico Orientale, Zeno D' Augustin - confirmation the great railway vocation of Trieste. We not only consolidate the role of the port which gate of preferential access at the market of Center-East Europe, but we can expand our basin of market until the depositor North of the continent, arriving to Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland".
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the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Orientale has announced that next 25 January will leave from the harbour port of call of Trieste the first programmed intermodal train to long distance on the director Kiel-Göteborg, for the transport of containers, semitows and cases you furnish, service with arrival and departure via sea from Turkey/Greece having like origin/destination the market of the Baltic area. Draft of the first operating connection along the corridor TRIES the Adriatic-Baltic Sea.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
