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New historic annual record of container traffic in the port of Trieste
In 2019, the total volume of goods handled by the airport decreased by -1%
February 13, 2020
The Adriatic Sea Port System Authority Eastern has announced that in 2019 rail traffic to and from the port, already heavily strengthened in recent years, has consolidated the data achieved in 2018 10,000 trains and 210,000 trucks removed from the road. "As far as trains are concerned," noted the President AdSP, Zeno D'Agostino - the achievements achieved in recent years have been extremely encouraging both from the point of view of performance, which has led to the doubling of numbers from 2014 to the present 5,000 to 10,000 trains, both in terms of the route investments in the rail sector amounting to 200 million euros. Now new challenges are opening up. Already in 2019, Campo Marzio's shipyards. But 2020 will be the year the start of the most important work.'
The AdSP also showed that in 2019, in relation to the container sector, 56% of traffic disembarked or boarded Trieste used the railway, a share that is in continuous growth and already exceeds the share that the EU has placed as a European rail freight traffic target for 2050 50%. The body has specified that even in the motorways, despite the contraction of traffic, the railway is gaining a significant value: in the year just 29% of all trucks boarded or landed in Trieste (mainly to/from Turkey) were transferred by train.
As for the port of Monfalcone, in 2019 the airport has moved 4.1 million tonnes of goods, down -9.8% year-on-year 2.9 million tonnes of solid bulk (-8,9%) including mainly 2.4 million tonnes of products metallurgical (3.1%) 1.1 million tonnes of miscellaneous goods (-11,9%).
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