Starting from today, the North-Eastern Adriatic is closer to Germany thanks to a new railway connection. The service will link the Cervignano interport to Rostock Germany. The railway was inaugurated on the 16th of October 2018.
In addition to the function as the port of Trieste, Monfalcone and Nogaro, the interport of Cervignano ultimately becomes the hub for goods traffic on the Adriatic-Baltic corridor. This is a new opportunity that North-Eastern Italian fruit and vegetable exporters should seize so to reach Germany and the Baltic.
The project was realised by LKW Walter, Austrian transportation company since 1924. The company chose the facility of Cervignano as an ideal hub to connect to Rostock, which distribute the goods towards Scandinavia, Baltic countries and North-Eastern Italy.
Zeno D’Agostino is the president of the Harbour System Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea. At the inauguration, he stated, “Finally, Cervignano has an intermodal train, again. This service represents one of the pieces that allows us discussing the new integrated system of the Eastern Adriatic Sea. We have recently activated the shuttle service between Trieste and Cervignano. Now, let’s see the full operativity of these two regional hubs: on one hand Cervignano, on the other hand, Villa Opicina”.
It is a ‘company train’, or a service entirely dedicated to the semi-trailers of LKW Walter. It will utilize the Kombiverkher support as Multimodal Transport Operator for the train management. Additionally, the Francesco Parisi Casa di Spedizioni di Qualità company will play the role of the commercial promoter. The railway companies Mercitalia and Lokomotion will take care of the ‘traction’, the former for the Italian part and the latter for the cross-border. The wagons will be provided by Deutsche Bahn.
With a distance of 1.300 km and a 22-hours transit-time, the service runs 3 pairs of weekly trains in both the direction. The objective is to increase the frequency within a short-term. The 550-meter long train with 32 semitrailers will allow about 200 trucks to be removed from the road every week, and therefore extremely beneficial for environmental sustainability. The service will be well balanced both in exports and imports: the former with the final destinations in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries and the latter with the destinations in North-Eastern Italy and Slovenia.
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