Everyone has their own dreams and, sometimes, even some communities share it. The operators who gravitate around the port of La Spezia have one in common: the completion and doubling of the line Pontremolese railway line. More than a dream, a mirage, or Better a nightmare. "We tacitly accepted - he said today Andrea Fontana, president of the shipping agents of La Spezia, explaining the aspirations of the entire community port of La Spezia - that this work would not be carried out, that remained in limbo even in the great squandering of public money consequent application of the PNRR. And yet today more than the completion of the Pontremolese railway, that is, more correctly, of the connection between the Tyrrhenian and Brenner Just a necessity that should be obvious to everyone. It is a real emergency".

Fontana specified that in view of the lack of Reassuring indications also came from the government last February and that even for the doubling of the Parma-Vicofertile section there is a lack of 126 million euros on appeal, according to shipping agents La Spezia the time has come to close a door, that of exclusive public funding, and to open a new one, that of pay per use, which would make at least in part possible a project finance operation. "It's useless - he noted the President of the Association of Maritime Agents of La Spezia - continue to talk about strategic and non-strategic work to face the problem of those four or five billion that are necessary to complete the line and its doubling. We are about to conclude the final design of the doubling of the section contiguous area, between Vicofertile and Fornovo, which will allow define the amount necessary for its implementation and start the authorization process, but - concluded Fontana - we cannot Allowing the luxury of passively waiting for future updates of the programme contract, MIT-RFI investments part, while enormous resources are channeled on railway lines of dubious usefulness".