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New railway service between the Interporto di Cervignano and the German port of Rostock
The frequency is trisettimanale, with the objective to elevate it to five departures in both the directions
October 16, 2018
Today a new railway service is inaugurated that will connect the Interporto di Cervignano, that it acts as retroporto for the harbour ports of call of Trieste, Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro, with the German port of Rostock. Draft of "company train", that is of a service dedicated completely to the semitowings of the society Austrian of street transport and intermodal LKW Walter, than will make use of the support of the German Kombiverkehr which Multimodal Transport Operator for the organization of the trains and the Italian Francesco Parisi Casa di Spedizioni in quality of commercial promoter of the interporto of Cervignano. Alle railway enterprises Mercitalia and Lokomotion will be entrusted the traction, respective for the Italian part and the draft oltreconfine, while the railway wagons will be put on by Deutsche Bahn.
With a distance of 1.300 kilometers and transit a Time of about 22 hours, currently the service previews the circulation of three couples of trains weeklies magazine in both the directions, with the objective to increase the frequency in the short period. The train, along 550 meters with 32 semitowings, will afford to remove from the road about 200 trucks to week, to all advantage of the environmental sustainability.
Satisfaction for the inauguration of the new connection is expressed by Fulvio Tomasin, president of Interporto Cervignano del Friuli, by Francesco Parisi, at the head of the homonymous shipment house, that it has evidenced as Cervignano lathes finally to being connected with the North of the Alps, and by Armin Riedl, managing director of Kombiverkehr, that it has specified that will be continued to work in order to increase the frequency to five departures weeklies magazine and to develop ulterior trains.
"Cervignano - Zeno has commented D' Augustin, president of the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Orientale - returns to having an intermodal train. This service represents one of the dowels that afford us to speak about the new integrated system of Mare Adriatico Orientale. We have not for long started the shuttle between Trieste and Cervignano. Now we see the full regional operativity of two hub: from a Cervignano part and the other Opicina Villa".
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