Today, German port operators protested against the Postponement of the decision on the implementation of the project for the Construction of the new passenger and freight railway line Hamburg-Hanover, which is an essential section of the Corridor Scandinavian-Mediterranean, one of the nine priority axes of the network TEN-T trans-European transport transient, which passes through Italy through the Brenner. Yesterday, in fact, the Bundestag decided to postpone the Parliamentary debate on the project scheduled for tomorrow in Transport Committee, with the vote in plenary expected for the day after tomorrow.

Highlighting that the new railway line is one of the Most important traffic links to hinterland served by German ports, the general manager of the Association of German Maritime-Port Operators ZDS, Florian Keisinger, expressed dismay at this further "Germany," he recalled, "has been discussing for years bottleneck. The facts are on the table: now we need a decision. The Hamburg-Hanover section is not a project of northern Germany, but a project key to the country's competitiveness and industrial base. Those who want to move more freight to rail and modernise their infrastructure cannot continue to postpone a decision of the kind. This is in contradiction with the agenda infrastructure of the federal government. Now the rule must apply: Decide, plan, build".

The association denounced that the existing railway line between Hamburg and Hanover is heavily overloaded, with a saturation rate that - according to data from the Federal Ministry of Economy and Labour Transport - reaches 147%. ZDS also pointed out that, Regardless of the final decision on the new line, the short-term optimization measures planned for the route must be implemented quickly.