This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Se pone en servicio uno de los tráficos ferroviarios de mercancías más largo de la Península
Put into service one of the railway traffic of goods over the longer of the peninsula
01/09/2010
September 1, 2010
On 30 August he departed from Sagunto (Valencia), with Portugal transit, and destination to Vigo, one of the longest traffic of goods by rail of the Iberian Peninsula, with 1,330 kilometres per sense. The capacity of the train is 1,200 tons with cargo multiproduct two-way and transporting mobile boxes or containers for different clients.
Implementation of the new corridor rail Levante - Portugal - Galicia has been possible thanks to the collaboration between Ibercargo Rail, company owned by comsa Rail Transport and Takargo, the two railway operators private with more activity between Spain and Portugal, and the logistics operator Tramesa. The exploitation of the corridor is carried out through the UTE Iberian Steel.
The implementation of new traffic, with a length in both directions for 30 hours, allows you to connect today by multimodal train Valencia with Portugal and Galicia. The new rail initiative has counted with the collaboration of two managers of the railway infrastructure in Spain and Portgual: Adif and Refer, respectively, thereby obtaining the grooves appropriate to the needs of customers.
