Terzo Valico dei Giovi - High speed, high-capacity railway line section from Milan to Genoa (Italy)
Client
Italferr
Contractor
Cociv
Location
Genoa, Italy
Status
In progress
Services
Final design (geotechnical and structural) and technical assistance on site for the tunnels (TBM and Conventional)
Technical Information
Conventional (7,6 km) &
Mechanized (70,36 km)
Tunnels, 9 Shaft, Junctions
Interferences
Cost
€ 6.200.000.000
The Cociv Consortium, led by Salini Impregilo, has opened the main operational sites where works completion is equivalent to €250 million.
The Terzo Valico is a new railway line that will improve railway connections between the Liguria port system with the main railway lines of Northern Italy and the rest of Europe.
The project is part of the Rhine-Alpine Corridor, which is one of the corridors of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T core network) connecting Europe's most populated and most important industrial regions.
The new high-speed/high-capacity line will be 53 km long, of which 37 km in tunnels, and is connected to the existing line through 4 interconnections, 14 km long, at Voltri, Genova Parco Campasso, Novi Ligure and Tortona. Starting at the Genoa hub, the new line will run along the Genoa-Milan route, as far as Tortona, and along the Alessandria-Turin route, as far as Novi Ligure, and will then connect with the existing lines connecting with Milan and Turin.
The new infrastructure will make it possible to significantly increase the transport offering, improving the railway connections with the Liguria port system, the northern Tyrrhenian Sea ports and the north of the country, central and northern Europe (Rotterdam, Antwerp) and, also thanks to the upgrading works at the Genoa hub, the Genoa area will have a network dedicated to metropolitan traffic.