The Temporary Association of Companies composed of the company Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal of the FS Italiane group and the railway company "Dinazzano Po" has awarded management for the next five years, plus three optional renewal, railway shunting services in the port of Ravenna. The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea North Central highlighted that with the signing of the contract Not only does it extend the flexibility of railway shunting and service hours (available 24 hours a day) day and seven days a week) but also increases interoperability of digital systems through the implementation of the "RAIL" module within the Port Community System of Ravenna, for the purposes of development of digital services for logistics efficiency port between the operator of the manoeuvre, the terminal operators and the undertakings Railway.

The new concession has a total value of 38 million of euros. The service will employ a total of 42 workers, supported by coordination staff and instructors, and a park Vehicles consisting of eight locomotives.

The Ravenna port authority has recalled that in port transit already ten thousand trains every year and that, as a result of the infrastructural development interventions that are being carried out linked to the Ravenna Port Hub Project and RFI projects for the strengthening of the freight yards on the left and right Channel Candiano, a future growth in cargo volumes is expected ports moved by rail. Currently the port counts 35 kilometres of track and ten companies connected to the rail and in 2022 there were about four million tons of goods transported by train, with an incidence of traffic railway, equal to 13.5% of the total loads handled in port.