Tramesa and Transitalia: railway motorway between Valencia and Madrid 01/07/24
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Tramesa and Transitalia launch the railway motorway between Valencia and Madrid
The railway highway between the Port of Valencia and Madrid has started to operate after successfully completing the comfort tests, according to what the general manager of Tramesa, Jesús Calvo, explained to Diario del Puerto.
VALENCIA. In this sense, during the summer period “we are going to implement the service until we consolidate the routes we have after the summer. There will be four services a week,” Jesús Calvo told this publication. “The tests we have carried out since the beginning of June have been positive.”
This will mark the start of the first railway motorway between two points in Spain, and will allow the transport by rail of semi-trailers of trucks from Italy via sea, thereby avoiding traffic on Spanish roads and its carbon dioxide emissions.
TransItalia and Tramesa have made a significant investment in this project, since, while the Italian company has assumed the acquisition of specific P400 type semi-trailers for trucks, the Spanish operator has done the same with T4000 type wagons, while also assuming the purchase of the gantry crane that operates in the Eastern Dock of the Port of Valencia to couple or uncouple said trailers in the railway convoys.
Regarding the future railway highway that will link the Port of Valencia with Portugal, Jesús Calvo told Diario del Puerto that “negotiations for its implementation are continuing.”