Agreement for the improvement of the connections of the ports of Livorno and Piombino with the transeuropea railway net TRIES



Yesterday the president of the Region Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, the managing director of Italian Railway Net (RFI), Maurizio Gentile, a representative of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern, Stefano Corsini, and the president of the Interporto Toscano Amerigo Vespucci, Rocco Guido Nastasi, an agreement for the realization of the railway connections of the port of Livorno has undersigned with the corridor TRIES Mediterranean Scandinavian, one of the four that interest the Italy between the nine that they constitute the carrying axis of the Trans European Network, the railway net that infrastructure entire Europe.

The understanding previews the realization of four great railway works that will be realized within 2021 and that better they will connect the Tuscany, its ports and its railway net to the great European railway corridors dedicated to the transport of the goods. They will be thanks to 200 million euros that the Region will put on of Italian Railway Net, to a rhythm of 12,5 million the year, for next the twenty years and that they will serve to realize numerous railway infrastructures.

A work is the so-called one "climbs over" railway in a position to connecting the port of Livorno to the interporto. Object of the agreement is then an ulterior connection between interporto of Livorno and the railway lines Collesalvetti-Go and Florence-Pisa through the by-pass of Pisa. Also the port of Piombino re-enters in the agreement, since of it previews the review of the connections with that of Livorno so that also this marine port of call better is connected to the great European corridors. The cost of I climb over is of 23,8 million euros: 17 will be poured by the Region in favor of RFI that will realize the work and that of it will put others 4,3 from own budget, while the Ministry of Transportation will contribute with 2,5 million euros. In the next month of October they will begin the propedeutiche works, that they will be completed in July 2019. The beginning of the realization of the work is fixed for june 2019 and the completion of the work is previewed for August 2021, with the entrance in function the next month.

The more important participation but is constituted by the adaptation of the galleries of Appenino tosco emiliano presents long the Prato-Bologna line. Sarà Rete Ferroviaria Italiana to begin in the course of this year the work of adaptation of the galleries to standard PC-80 (a widening of the dimensions of the galleries in order to return the passage of wider and capacious wagons possible transported goods as well as of the Tir on iron), whose completion is previewed over three years. The work that RFI is engaged to realize along Prato-Bologna, will regard is the infrastructure (the railroads, the contact line, the galleries) is the technological systems. Contextually the works of improvement of accessibility to the stations will be executed. The more complex activity will be that than increase of about 20 kilometers of galleries (on a total of 40 km), that it will demand the milling of the times, the lowering of the plan of the iron and the adaptation of the electric power supply line of the trains. The stations of Monzuno, in Emilia Romagna, and of Vaiano, in Tuscany, will be equipped in order to afford the passage of long freight trains until 750 meters, that it is the European standard. One previews that they will serve three years and means for the completion of all these work.