MSC and FS Group aim to bring sea and rail services closer
Shipping giant MSC and Italian railway company FS Group are very close to implementing a joint project that will see the integration of sea and rail services in Italy on the basis of intermodal transport. The two companies signed an MoU in Geneva targeting “greater and more effective synergies between maritime and rail transport.”
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Niche of rail cargo has been and remains on shore feeding of ports!
However stuck in standards no longer timely, service rendered does not meet with quality now requested. (Broken rails… and dito feeding of electricity, etc., etc., means risks added at supply chains, where now “eta” matters.)
All other devices upgrades for higher loads, etc., for lower costs.
For added capacity and less risks, tracks now need upgrading. 32,5 ton. SWL axial load now is a min., etc. (Current is devastating.)