(Finance) – The Sicilian Region, Terminali Italia And Sicilian Interports Company (SIS) have signed a agreement for the management of the intermodal hub of the Catania interport. With this understanding, which is part of a new network contract called CINT (Catania Intermodale)– explains FS News, the information portal of the FS Group – Terminali Italia, a company of RFI (FS Group) for terminal services (loading and unloading of swap bodies, containers, semi-trailers and train maneuvering), will deal with the services of first and last railway and management mile in the intermodal hub, which is located a short distance from the Bicocca railway station, while the Sicilian Region, through SIS, is about to complete and put into operation the work considered essential for increasing the inter-modality of rubber / iron in freight traffic.
“There synergistic collaboration between Terminali Italia and SIS – FS News reports – will allow to increase production capacities thanks to the adoption of shared business models to offer customers the full range of services available in the Catania Interport area: on the one hand, the management of the terminal railway of Catania Bicocca with, as well as operational, administrative and commercial activities offered by Terminali Italia; on the other hand, the management of the intermodal hub of the Catania Interport with the potential to attract new traffic to the area by SIS. Another company of the FS Group, Mercitalia, also operates in the Catania freight village, which offers rolling stock handling services. “
The agreement was signed today, Tuesday 24 May, in the presence of theregional councilor for infrastructure Marco FalconeofCouncilor of the Municipality of Catania Michele Cristaldi, of‘CEO of Terminali Italia Giuseppe Acquaro he was born in president of SIS Giuseppe Salonia.