Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato

The Bari Hub constitutes a key point on the national railway system as it concerns the Adriatic corridor freight route (Gioiatauro-Taranto-Bari network from southern Italy/Northern Europe) added to the numerous lines converging on the hub, essentially dedicated to regional railway and metropolitan services. planned work on the hub, of an infrastructural and technological nature, is aimed at: 
• increasing the metropolitan transport system capacity, bringing it up to suitable quantitative and qualitative standards
• building lines dedicated to freight traffic flows able to avoid conflicts and interferences with metropolitan, regional and long haul traffic flows
• improving intermodal and intramodal integration, resolving certain critical situations of the territorial and environmental type both north and south of the hub
• increase technological renovation and automation and command and control of installations 

The main work planned for the hub is as follows: 
• Bari-Taranto track doubling: Bari S. Andrea Bitetto stretch
• Bari Nord stretch (bringing S. Spirito –Palese stretch underground) and Bari Sud (Bari Central S. Giorgio) Phase
• adjusting the Bari Hub 

WORK COMPLETED

Adjusting the Bari Hub	160 MIO €
Bari Parco Sud -Bari Torre a Mare track doubling	2004
installation train formations	2005
Bari -Taranto double crossover freight line with Bari Parco Nord freight station	2008
Bari S. Andrea-Bari Centrale passenger link	2009

WORK IN PROGRESS

Bari-Taranto track doubling: Bari S. Andrea Bitetto stretch	219 MIO €
the technical contractual documentation to begin the bidding procedures is at the preparatory phase; construction will be completed in 2012	2012

Bari Hub: Bari Nord (interramento stretch S. Spirito-Palese) and Bari Sud (Bari Central-Bari S. Giorgio)	398 MIO €
preliminary design is underway; at present, the construction of one phase has been financed, for 398 MIO €	activation date to be determined

Overall cost of the work is equal to 777 MIO €.