Infraestruturas de Portugal seeks “anchor customers” to enable terminals on the Sines/Caia railway – Observer
Infraestruturas de Portugal (IP) is developing contacts to find “anchor customers“Strengthen the economic and financial viability” of the goods that can be built on the future line “to be built on the future line” Sin Governos/Caia, revealed the.
The information appears in the answer that the Minister of Infrastructure and Housing, Pedro Nuno Santos, gave the question last July to the Government, at the end, by the PSD parliamentary group, to which access was presented on this day.
The seven deputies if the PSD subscribed to the question of the request if the shipping line has a goods terminal in the district of Évora if the Government could guarantee that as measures to minimize environmental impacts were being.
In the response, the official indicated “contacts are being developed, autarchies and clients” to “strengthen the economic and financial viability” of those that can be built in Évora and Vendas Novas financiers.
The minister chose that market, technical feasibility and analysis and feasibility studies were carried out for the installation of goods costs in the areas of alandroal, Évora and Vendas and the feasibility of installing goods terminals in the areas of alandroal, Évora and Vendas.
According to the holder of the infrastructure feasibility portfolio, none of the financial studies calculated based on the feasibility of one of them, that of Alandroal, have.
The feasibility of operating a goods terminal “underlies the existence of scale, frequency and regularity that “it is essential to ensure the existence of an anchor customer or logistics aggregator” that ensures these conditions, he maintained.
As for the environmental impacts, Pedro Nuno Santos stressed that IP “is fully complying with the legislation in the area of the environment, which includes all the measures included in the Environmental Impact Declaration and in the Environmental Compliance of the Execution Project” of the new railway.
“In order to ensure compliance with these measures, IP presents, with the Portuguese Environment Agency, every six months, a report of compliance with the measures of the Environmental Impact Declaration/Decision on Environmental Compliance of the Execution Project at the Construction Phase , attesting to the full observance of the same”, he stressed.
On the other hand, he added “environmental monitoring during the construction phase is ensured by dedicated equipment that ensures that all measures included in the Environmental Impact Declaration are taken into account at this stage”.
The four sections that will integrate the Southern International Corridor, between Sines and the Caia border, in Elvas (Portalegre), are under construction, within the scope of the Investment Program in the Expansion and Modernization of the National Railway Network “Ferrovia 2020”.
The project aims to reduce travel time, as a result of the use of electric traction trains between Sines and Caia, and “increase efficiency and attractiveness” of the transport of freight by allowing the circulation of freight trains with 750 meters in length.