Brindisi, the railway service in harbour within is entrusted to Mercitalia



The Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Meridionale has announced to have experimentally granted to Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal, society for the production and the commercialization of the rail shipment of goods controlled to 100% from Italian Railroads of the State, the confidence of the railway service in the port of Brindisi and handling of the railway wagons on the harbour railroads, with contextual put on of railroads functional connected to the new railway connection near juts it of Costa Morena Est. The agency has specified that the concessorio action reaches valley of the minutes of transitabilità of the infrastructural system which released from Italian Railway Net ago some days.

The concession, that it has lasted triennial, among other things previews that Mercitalia settles to Brindisi with adapted offices, maintaining in efficiency engaged means and infrastructures assigned through a maintenance team/ready operating participation on the spot. To the society the inherent operations will compete all the service of maneuver and formation trains, all the accessory performances to the rail shipment, handling and traction of the wagons and the railway convoys in arrival and departure in the withins connected to the port of Brindisi and all the relative complementary activities on behalf of the enterprises that execute the rail shipment, of the terminalisti of the port and the operators in general terms. Moreover the realization of one is previewed unwinds of composition and decomposition of the trains near the dock of river of Costa Morena Est.

The Authority of Harbour System has specified to have obtained in the within of the agreement a scontistica for the start of the start-up, based on which the higher rate will pile vice versa to 412,50 euros for the maneuvers of terminalizzazione from the railroads of arrival of the station of Brindisi to the loading sidings in dock and.

The railway infrastructure of the port of Brindisi is connected to national the railway net (Station of Central Brindisi) through the so-called consortile railway connection, of property of Consortium A.S.I of Brindisi that of it stops concession of exercise, by virtue of a contract stipulated with RFI for regulating the maintenance of the work.

The president of the AdSP of Mare Adriatico Meridionale, Ugo Patroni Griffim, has emphasized that "the new railway connection, associated to a aimed action turns to develop new intermodal connections, beyond facilitating the numerous enterprises that operate in the industrial zone, constitutes the key of time for the consecration of the international port of call which hub for the exchange of goods with Europe and the Countries that appear in the basin of the Mediterranean".