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New railway corridor goods that connects Italy and Russia through Slovenia, Hungary and Ukraine
It previews an agreement of cooperation between the railway groups of Hungary, Italy and Russia
June 24, 2019
To realize a new railway corridor goods that connects Italy to Russia crossing Slovenia, Hungary and Ukraine. The intention expressed from the railway groups of Hungary, Italy and Russia in svoltosi occasion of a three-sided encounter last Tuesday in the center of the Railroads is this Hungarians (MAV) of Budapest to which they have participated to the delegates of the Italian group FS (FS International, Italferr and Mercitalia Rail), promoter of the initiative, the MAV, with the president and CEO Róbert Homolya, Russian Railroads (RZD), with the general representative of the Russian Railroads in Hungary, Victor Belyakov, and RZD Logistics, with the international director Spedizioni Alan Kalukhov.
It is specified that the project, that is online with the development of the Mediterranean Corridor TRIES and the Way of the Silk, sees which reference strategic point the logistics center of Zahony (station of change of gauge), property of MAV and last outpost to the end the Northeast of Hungary to the border with Ukraine.
As indicated from president Homolya, between the priorities of the government Hungarian goods is the examination of the opportunities of cooperation in the rail shipment and of the logistics, finalized to the increment of the infrastructural efficiency of the net and the logistics centers of the Country.
In the course of the encounter, Mercitalia Rail has confirmed the strong interest for the project of development of the traffic (logistic, conventional transport and transport arranged) along the director Italia - Hungary - Russia in order to reach until China.
Also by Russian part the initiative is received favorably, restating the purpose to develop the new corridor online with how much already emerged in the within of the encounter of the Working group Transports G2G Russia - Italy, svoltosi 10th April to Rome.
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