Agreement Consortium ZAI - RFI in order to upgrade intermodal the railway ability and to the Interporto Europe Quadrant



Today the president of Consortium ZAI, Matteo Gasparato, and the managing director and general manager of Italian Railway Net (RFI), Maurizio Gentile, an understanding protocol has undersigned in order to put into effect participations for the development of the railway and intermodal systems of the Interporto Europe Quadrant of Verona.

In particular, the agreement previews the realization of a new terminal of cargo and drainage with crane to portal, areas of storage and railroads of arrivals and departures of 750 meters, so as they preview the European standards. For the income the West of Verona, three railroads of arrival will be realized and departures for I forward it directed of the convoys from guiding West-East to the intermodal areas of the Europe Quadrant. The three railroads could be widened until to construct a new bundle arrive and departures of 10 railroads with module 750 meters, receiving and throwing again the flows of traffic from and for the main ports on the depositors tirrenico and adriatic. Moreover, a system will be planned of street practicability in order to improve the operations of booking, storage and filtering of the goods that arrive on rubber.

The two parts have specified that the participations previewed from the understanding protocol join in the new organizational and managerial model of the railway comprensorio of Verona, in coherence with the project to connect the main terminals to the railway net, realizing an authentic intermodal transport so rubber/iron and improving the economic and environmental sustainability of the traffic goods.

"The important participations to the Europe Quadrant - Maurizio Gentile has confirmed - take part slowly of immensest than Italian Railway Net in order to support and to increase the traffic goods on iron. They assume a still greater importance if the strategic position of the Interporto is considered, that it intercepts the West-East traffics, on the Mediterranean Corridor, and North-South, thanks to the railway corridor that goes from the Meridione to the European industrial basins more important and that it will be upgraded with the opening of the new Gallery of Brenner".

"This development plan - it has emphasized Matteo Gasparato - affords us to continue to being the protagonists of the intermodal market to European level. The synergies between Consortium Zai and RFI are intensified more and more that afford to realize new goals and activity in order to maintain to the summits the model Quadrante Europe. We have undertaken a distance of realization of the only terminal from 750 meters in Italy for its valence in logistic within".