Deputy Director General of Railways ensures that the rail freight transport in Spain is in a "critical situation"



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## Deputy Director General of Railways ensures that the rail freight transport in Spain is in a "critical situation"

04/09/2016 |
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The Universitat Jaume I has initiated this morning the course of summer “The intermodalidad in the transport of commodities: a vision of future” with the intervention of the general deputy director of Planning and Projects of the general direction of Railways of the Ministry responsible for public works, Jorge Ballesteros, the one who has tackled the modernisation of the transport of commodities by railway. Ballesteros Has been cutting when affirming that the transport of commodities by railway in Spain is in “a critical situation”, since it lives one of his historical moments lower with a quota of transport by train of 3,4%, the fourth lower of the European Union and very underneath of the rest of European countries where this type of transport supposes 20% of the total.

The general deputy director has explained that the situation of this sector “concerns” to the Ministry responsible for public works by his weakness and has enumerated the main causes that cause that the transport of commodities by railway do not work in Spain: the high costs, the peripheral situation of the country with regard to the rest of Europe, the complicated orography, the deficit of interoperability of the rail installations with the rest of the continent (that it translates in the need to change of width of road when they cross the Pyrenees), the priorización of the services of travellers in front of the commodities in the metropolitan areas, or the scarce experience in the sector of the transport of the private rail companies that have begun to operate in the country.

In his intervention, Ballesteros also has indicated some of the measures that can llevar to improve the competitiveness of this service, like the agilización of formalities to facilitate the entrance to new operators, the improvement of the conditions of circulation of the trains of commodities in the lines of vicinities, the development of infrastructures of connection of apartaderos, the creation of rail motorways, the impulse to the intermodalidad maritime-terrestrial, the construction of big terminals of transport, the improvement of the security through the signaling, the creation of preferential itineraries for the traffic of commodities or the adoption, progressive, of the width of international road.

Finally, the general deputy director of Planning and Projects has aimed the performances that already are realising from the Ministry responsible for public works to promote this type of transport, some performances that centre in the improvement of the accesses to the ports, the construction of logistical terminals and the improvement of the road network. In this sense has stood out the formalities that are realising to implant the width of international road in the Mediterranean runner, whose works could begin in 2013. Regarding the port of Castellón, Ballesteros has explained that the informative study of the new access is at present in editorial and has added that it is a work “prioritaria” for the Government. 

By his part, the vice-chancellor of Strategic Planning, Quality and Communication of the UJI, Miguel Ángel Moliner, that has inaugurated this seminar, has stood out the importance of the runner of Mediterranean for the future of the Comunitat Valencian and has ensured that “we can not us allow renounce to this infrastructure”.

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