Agreement Interporto Bologna - RFI for the potenziamento of the railway system of the hub emiliano



President of Interporto Bologna, Marco Spinedi, and the managing director and general manager of Italian Railway Net (RFI), Maurizio Gentile, a protocol of understanding for the realization of participations of potenziamento of the railway system in the hub from Bologna in the widest picture has undersigned yesterday than investments dedicated to the transport goods that RFI is getting ahead and that they head to adapt the lines that take part of the four Cores Corridor of the trans-European infrastructural net TRY, with particular attention to the nodes of the net and therefore also to the terminals of Bologna Interporto.

In the specific one, the participations head to equip infrastructures of the interporto of the necessary standards for the transport of the goods, that is length of the railway convoys until 750 meters, suitable shape to the transit of the semitowings and the travelling freeway and axial mass until 22,5 tons/axis.

Interporto Bologna and RFI have emphasized that it will be so possible to realize a true integration iron-sea with the national and intra-Mediterranean services of cabotage, through thin operations of uncoupling, shelter and coupling of groups of wagons and an adapted service of parking of the railway wagons goods. Moreover, thanks to such participations, for the hub from Bologna he will be simpler to receive new traffics goods, in terms is quantitative is qualitative, strengthening its strategic position of connection that it sees to the crossing of the Corridors Baltic Sea-Adriatic, the Mediterranean and the Scandinavian-Mediterranean to it.

"The protocol of understanding with Interporto Bologna - Maurizio Gentile has confirmed - takes part slowly of immensest than Italian Railway Net in order to support and to increase the traffic goods on iron, that it has as objective to the 2026 adaptation to the new standards of beyond 75% of the lines of the Core Corridors of the net IT TRY". Kind it has evidenced that the agreement "assumes a still greater importance if the strategic position of the Interporto is considered, than it returns in natural way various point of connection of guiding of traffic".

Spinedi has emphasized that the signature of the protocol "represents for Interporto Bologna the first step aerobic in a wider strategy that aimed at throws again of the Interporto of Bologna as a hub railway of primary importance to European level in the intermodal market. The long railroads 750 meters, the defined modernization to P400 of the Adriatic line and that Milan Bologna - it has found the interportuale president of the company - will afford in fact to the terminals of Interporto to adapt themselves to the European standards and to inside create the conditions for a modern intermodal offer revolt to the 114 active enterprises of logistics of the interporto".