(Finance) – Successfully shot downin the Desenzano del Garda shipyard, the first diaphragm of the gallery Lonato which is part of the work of the new route HS / HC Brescia East-Verona.
The work, entrusted to the Government Commissioner Vincenzo Macello, is financed by PNRR and represents one of the pieces of Core Corridor Mediterraneowhich will connect the southern ports of the Iberian Peninsula with the Ukrainian border, passing through the south of France, northern Italy, Slovenia and Croatia.
Thus continue i construction work of the gallery entrusted to Cepav twothe Eni Consortium for high speed, commissioned by RFI and placed under the supervision of Italferrboth companies of the Infrastructure Hub of the FS Group.
With the demolition of the diaphragm of the gallery Lonato comes construction of the first 4,751-meter barrel completedwhich carries the railway line, thanks to the under-crossing of the A4, along the furrow of the existing infrastructural corridor, in order to minimize the overall impact.
To carry out the first section the Martina cutter (TBM Tunnel Boring Machine) of 10 meters in diameter, which was built specifically for the excavation of the tunnel. In the coming months, the cutter will be disassembled and transported to the west entrance of the tunnel for reassembly and the continuation of the excavation of the second barrel.
The drilling activity of the Lonato tunnel has produced excavation materials for approximately 470,000 cubic meters, which will be used in part for the construction of the railway line and in part transferred to the local quarries for specific environmental improvement interventions.
“With the demolition of the diaphragm of the Lonato tunnel, the construction phase of the HS / HC Brescia Est – Verona section proceeds in compliance with the deadlines, a fundamental work that will allow to increase the transport of goods to and from Europe and the flow of passenger trains nationally “, he stressed Ivan BaroncioniProject Coordinator for High Speed / High Speed Treviglio-Brescia and Brescia-Verona sections for the Italian Railway Network.
The High Speed Brescia-Verona it crosses the Lombardy and Veneto Regions, for a railway route of approximately 48 kilometers, including the 2.2 km of the “Verona Merci” interconnection with the Verona-Brenner railway axis. The investment is 2.6 billion The share assigned to Cepav due is 2.16 billion euros Milan-Verona line will reduce interference between different transport flows by making the circulation is smoother and increasing traffic capacity at the Brescia and Verona railway junctions, with benefits on the regularity and punctuality of long-distance, regional and freight transport services.