The enterprises of rail shipment cargo and logistics protest for the interruption total of the railway traffic goods decided from RFI



Yesterday Italian Railway Net (RFI) has circulated an warning communicating some modifications to the offer of regional trains, to long distance and high speed based on the plan of serious emergency managed from the company in order to tackle to the bad weather big wave that they give yesterday has hit the Italian territory.

The General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics (Confetra) considers that the measures assumed from RFI are excessive in order to face the situation: "the RFI decision - the president of Confetra has denounced, Nereo Marcucci - is disproportionate and beyond all adopting without the warning necessary to allow with the enterprises to organize itself. We ask the minister for Infrastructures and Trasporti who takes part on RFI in order to obtain the immediate revocation of the provision to the aim not to in recent days penalize ulteriorly a category already put to hard test. I consider - it has added Marcucci - that how much is happening is the eclatante aspect of the manutentivo state of the net, of which only responsible is RFI, than moreover the passengers they experiment daily".

FerCargo, the association that represents active enterprises in the field of the rail shipment of the goods, is still more critic regarding the RFI decision. Referring to the which emanated from prescription the manager of the railway infrastructure to all the enterprises of the rail shipment goods, that 2:00 until improvement of the previewed meteorological conditions for the day of friday today previews the interruption total of the railway traffic goods on all the national territory from the hours, FerCargo has specified to consider the provision adopted "decidedly excessive is for the entity that for the geographic extension regarding the forecasts weather also of the Civil Protection to all notes".

Moreover FerCargo has evidenced "that it is not possible to completely block and without some warning an entire section because of an atmospheric event, above all in obvious absence of an adapted organization to manage such more and more frequent and expectable situations that in many regions are from considering themselves normal for the season and however.

FerCargo has pointed out also "as once again I confront with adjacent the European nations and with which we want to develop strong relations of commercial exchange you make us to blush of shame. In these days in fact - it has found the association - in all Europe the bad weather and the Siberian cold rage, but in Italy this only seems must have as only solution the firm suit of the rail shipments that in the other nations continue without slows down. To this it is necessary to add that on the node of Rome, in which remarkable single uneasiness for 15 centimeters of snow has happened, in spite of the days with sun of tuesday 27 and Wednesdays 28, the railway traffic goods still turns out blocked for the South Italy".

FerCargo has concluded announcing that the adherent railway enterprises to the association have communicated the intention "not to pay some type of penitentiary, previewed from informative Prospect of the Net, for all the services influenced from the current state of the Railway Net; the same ones are moreover reserved to act in the registered offices to protection of all the damages, directed and indirect, endured for interruption of activity and service".

Joining to the protest of FerCargo, the group Contship Italy, than work in the field of the harbour terminalismo and the intermodal transport, has emphasized that the today's abolition total of the traffic goods "will pour on the roads an amount of goods near means million tons, with obvious consequences in terms of pollution and traffic, going to add ulterior criticalities to a street system already strongly congested and therefore not certainly surer of the railway modality in a situation of meterological criticality".