Productive and employment development runs on Turin-Lyon.Industrial UnionIn partnership with Tent, brought together the business world at the Congress Center to illustrate the repercussions on local development of the imminent race for the railway superstructure and the technological equipment of the international section of the Turin-Lyon, the value of which amounts to approximately three billion euros.
The scenario illustrated during the meeting envisages, following the publication of the call for tenders scheduled for the next few days, the start of the pre-qualification procedures by 2024 and the subsequent assignment of the tender. In this way, with a view to concluding the current civil excavation works at the same time, the CO12 construction site (to build the base tunnel) can be put into operation between 2027 and 2028, while the delivery and testing of the works must take place by 2032.
Marsiaj: "An infrastructure that is essential for us"
"We are faced with an exceptional opportunity for companies in our area - comments the president of the Turin Industrial Union, Giorgio Marsiaj – because, today we are here to concretely talk about the future of an infrastructure that is essential for us, which we have been waiting for for some time. A future made up of trains, passengers and goods traveling between the two sides of the Alps, of sustainable mobility which in ten years' time will have to be at the forefront in terms of transport management, safety and energy saving. A result that can also be achieved thanks to the contribution that the Turin business world will be able to offer, in a framework of partnerships with large national and international companies, in particular the French, by making available to Turin-Lyon the wealth of technological knowledge and the propensity for innovation that characterizes it".
“The tender we are about to launch – underlined the engineer Maurizio Bufalini, deputy general manager Italy of Telt and director of the technical division – is a great opportunity to integrate innovation and expertise of which Italy and France are champions. Our hope is therefore that occasions like this will encourage the creation of binational groupings also in the technology sector. Our goal is to bring the best of excellence to the new line and operate in line with the objectives of sustainability and resilience, as well as with the binational DNA of the work".
The round table
The morning was then characterized by a round table between Elena Chapter, vice president of public works of Ance Torino, Victor DiTomaso, president of the Unione Industriali Torino Ict Group, John Ossola, president of the transport, infrastructure and building materials association Unione Industriali Torino e Stefano Serra, vice president of the Turin Industrial Union and president of Amma. An opportunity for reflection and discussion between the representatives of the economic categories of the territory most involved in the various types of intervention covered by the call for tenders and, therefore, particularly interested in understanding what concrete contribution the supply chains can provide to the works to be carried out soon.
