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Mercitalia Rail, exceptional transport of wide a long reactor 20,3 meters and four meters
It has travelled from Desio to Tarvisio in order then to reach in Slovakia
March 17, 2017
In recent days Mercitalia Rail, the transport society goods of the group FS Italian, has cured the exceptional transport of a reactor for urea of the length of 20,3 meters, of the height of 4,2 meters, the width of four meters and the weight of 147 tons, that it has travelled from Desio to Tarvisio having crossed the Lombardy, Veneto and the Friuli Venice Julia in order then to reach Trnovec nad Váhom in Slovakia, the final destination.
The exceptional transport has asked the release for special authorizations by Italian Railway Net, the manager of the national infrastructure, for the transit on the primary" and "secondary" lines ". This has afforded the travel of the freight train to limited speed (to 30 km/h with 50 tips of km/h) also for being able to carry out the displacements of the cargo based on the railway tracing.
Mercitalia Rail has managed the transport from origin to destination coordinating itself with the other railway enterprises involved preparing the cargo in its complex - with the systems of anchorage on two carts (Uaai 812, to five aces) it has reached the dimensions of 29 meters of length, 4,6 meters of height, four meters of width and 188 tons of weight - and following the operation on board until the borders with Austria with own specialistic staff.
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