“Construction site employing 430 people”



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The high railway capacity arrives for the first time in Sicily. And it does so on a strategic line, the connection between Palermo and Catania, until now for many sections still on a single track with trains forced to alternate in the race. Within this great work, the Webuild Group is dedicated today to the construction of the Bicocca-Catenanuova section, “38 kilometers of railway still under construction thanks also to the support of 193 companies, including suppliers and subcontractors, all Italian”.

“A representation of productive excellence – they write from the Webuild Group – that 58% of the total comes from Sicily itself, followed by Lombardy and Veneto. Among these, Natisone Lavori, who has made his patents available to the shipyard for construction of the track support system; Gecob, dedicated to the construction of the foundation piles; to the Center for Applied Economics of the University of Engineering of Catania, which worked on the study of the impact of the work in the territory. but also institutions university students committed to a work that already employs 430 people, between direct and indirect, with the aim of creating a strategic project for Sicily. The high capacity line will reach 180 kilometers per hour, compared to 90 km / h today and will pass through the single-track funnel, present in the internal section of the route. Currently, when there are two trains in circulation, one stops at the station to give and precedence to what is passing do ”.

The new Palermo-Catania will therefore be a modern line, “which arises from a complex and innovative project, where – only for the Bicocca-Catenanuova section (from near the Catania airport to the province of Enna) – 1.5 million cubic meters of land – reads the note -. All the works that are in progress without ever interrupting the operation of the old line. All this to complete a strategic work that is framed within the TEN-T corridors, the high capacity high-speed railway supported by the European Union. Moreover, in this Covid-19 crisis, infrastructures such as Palermo-Catania become strategic to reactivate the South, not only from the point of view of modern and efficient connections, but also from the of work and development “.

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