This afternoon the Port System Authority of the Sea Ligure Orientale has signed the contract for the shuttle port of La Spezia - Santo Stefano Magra with the ATI The contractor for the service was composed of Consorzio Asterix and TSL. The service provides for transport, carried out mainly in at night and seven days a week by means of special road vehicles, of containers from the port of La Spezia to the port area of Santo Stefano Magra and vice versa.

The Port Authority pointed out that the shuttle service will increase the added value for the port of La Spezia in how much it will allow to move, in the areas that are in the availability of AdSP in Santo Stefano Magra, a number of trains compared to the current ones, which is estimated at about 2,000 per year, effectively achieving that Functional and operational integration of the port and the hinterland at the basis of the strategic intermodal development of the port of La Spezia.

'The service of general economic interest of road shuttle between the port of La Spezia and the port area of S.Stefano di Magra, in support of the railway manoeuvre - has underlined the President of the Port Authority, Mario Sommariva - will allow at the port of La Spezia a better railway operation maintaining the current share of rail traffic and providing operators with an overall offer to Santo Stefano Magra of about 2,000 trains per year».