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Port of Trieste, the Transalpine railway route open to the transit of freight trains
It is a line of 14 kilometers with a maximum slope of 25 per thousand
April 6, 2020
The port authority has pointed out that the return to operations of the old Habsburg line, even in the presence of some limitation, it will also be an alternative freight trains to Trieste, which today favour the coastline, and therefore constitutes a lung for the port that has invested a lot in the development and efficiency of existing infrastructure. It is a question - stressed the President AdSP, Zeno D'Agostino - of "another important project of restoring lines that the railway history of Trieste had there rfI has implemented, to allow the operation of trains connection cargo of the logistics system of the port of Trieste, in Interport to Fernetti."
Two freight trains have already passed through the Transalpina. Adriafer, a company owned by adsP, has the task of carrying out the traction service of cargo trains on the having obtained permission from RFI to transport cargo convoys, for 40-foot high-cube containers along the admission to service of two locomotives, a Siemens Electric E191 and a Vossloh D 100 diesel.
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