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Mercitalia Wednesday will inaugurate the first service of rail shipment cargo to high speed
It will connect from the monday to the friday the Interporto of Bologna with the Mercitalia terminal of Maddaloni-Marcianise
November 5, 2018
Wednesday the next Polo Mercitalia, the division for the transport goods and the logistics of the group Italian Railroads of the State, will inaugurate the new service all freight Mercitalia Fast using Italian the Alta Velocità net/Alta Capacità, service that will connect every day from the monday to the friday, in 3 hours and 30 minutes, the Interporto of Bologna with the Mercitalia terminal of Maddaloni-Marcianise (Caserta).
The goods will travel on board of an Alta Velocità train that has a cargo ability equivalent to 18 Tir. Mercitalia has specified that the employment of roll container will afford to return the operations of cargo and drainage fast, efficient and sure.
"Mercitalia Fast - it has emphasized the managing director of Mercitalia, Marco Gosso - will be the first service of transport goods to use the railway net Alta Velocità/national Alta Capacità. Our objective is to offer a service made-to-measure to those customers who must deliver the goods in fast way, reliable and punctual, characteristic more and more demanded from the boom of the e-commerce. Today - it has specified - we are the only operator in a position to offering a so innovative service. We will begin 7 Wednesdays November, connecting every night Bologna Interporto to Maddaloni-Marcianise. In future, we count to extend the offer of the services Mercitalia Fast also to other terminals placed in the main Italian cities touched by Network AV/AC".
The president of Mercitalia Logistics, Ivan Soncini, has remembered that Mercitalia "is today the greatest Italian player of the European market of the transport goods, with a turnover consolidated of beyond a billion of euro per year, one of the more important fleets than locomotori and existing wagons goods today in Europe and with a great vocation to the technological innovation and of service".
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