(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 06 NOV - The new railway service that will
connect Trieste's port with the hub of Nuremberg, northern
Bavaria, began on Tuesday. Initially, the frequency will be
weekly, and then there will be two services a week by 2021, the
port reported. The project is "further proof - said the
President of Port System Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea,
Zeno D'Agostino - that intermodality manages to create important
opportunities for the port of Trieste as well as guarantees
connectivity with European industrial areas." The project - the
Authority explained - was born in the footsteps of the
consolidated presence of Dfds, a Danish group leading in Ro-Ro
transport and shareholder of the Samer Seaports terminal, which
will move the units arriving and departing from its ships
between Trieste and Bavaria. Joint Mercitalia Rail-TX will
operate the connection in collaboration with Alpe Adria. The
service will connect Trieste's pier V with the TriCon terminal
in Nuremberg, managed by the "Bayernhafen" group. In addition to
transferring the traffic volumes of the Turkish and Greek
markets sustainably, the service will be a pole of attraction
for the export of the industrial areas of ;;Bavaria and Friuli
Venezia Giulia. Contacts were also established with regional
players to verify the possibility of using the Cervignano hub as
an aggregator of further traffic volumes. "This new train -
D'Agostino said - confirms that the international vocation is a
prerogative of the logistics system of the port of Trieste and
is above all an expression of its strategic identity, which has
always aimed at increasing railway connectivity with central
Europe, starting with a historical trade partner like Bavaria."
(ANSA).
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