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Bari Hub
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 |
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| Adjusting the Bari Hub | 160 MIO € |
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| 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 |
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| Bari-Taranto track doubling: Bari S. Andrea Bitetto stretch | 219 MIO € |
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| 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 € |
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| 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 €.

