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Rail Cargo has transferred the Italian operating center from Novi Ligure to Marghera Port
In the 2016 port of Venice - it has emphasized the Harbour Authority - it has recorded the best one turned out railway than always
January 30, 2017
Rail Carrier Cargo - Italy, branch Italian of the Rail society Cargo of railway group Austrian ÖBB, has transferred own operating center from Novi Ligure (Alexandria) to Technological the Scientific Park of Venice (VEGA) of Marghera Port.
Announcing the initiative of the railway company, the Harbour Authority of Venice has explained that the choice of Rail Carrier Cargo - Italy to transfer the operating center answers to the requirement to place itself to the center of the zone of action of the trains hauled from the enterprise that follows the displacement to East North of the exporting Italian manufacture.
In the 2016 14 locomotives in cargo to the branch Italian they have carried out 1,2 million km/treno and the forecast for 2017 is to pass to 1,6 million km/treno with a possibility of being able to increase this given of others 200,000 km/treno.
Emphasizing that "Venice becomes so the nevralgico center of the railway net used from Rail Austria Cargo for Italy and will be able so to continue to contribute to that "cure of the iron" strongly intentional from the government", the Venetian Harbour Authority has remembered that "the activity of RAI Austria Cargo is come, moreover, to add to that of other operators who have they also increased their railway services from and for the port of Venice. It is so - it has evidenced the agency - than in the 2016 new activated lines and the engagement of the operators has made to mark the best one turned out railway than always: by the port of Venice in fact a +25% regarding 2015 are enlivened about 90.000 wagons marking, given doubled regarding the average annual of the precedence quinquennium. Numbers that are translate in 2.25 million tons of cargo on train, regarding 1,8 million 2015. The new lines, totally intermodal, that they conjugate ro-ro in arrival to Fusina and rail shipment, take advantage of the director who passes for Brenner connecting Greece and the Mediterranean to the Europe North in little days".
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