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There is a bridge for you. A debt for us. A bargain for them.

THERE IS A BRIDGE FOR YOU. A DEBT TO U.S.. A DEAL FOR THEM.

Yesterday, CIPE has given the green light to the work: but the economic feasibility remains on the shoulders of the State Railways: the company more subsidized in Italy that he does not even have the money for his cars
Daniel Martin

from the point of view of the financial Strait Bridge is a colossus with feet of clay.

The work yesterday got the green light by the CIPE (Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning who also works great) for the design phase.

But the government's decision not remove as if by magic the many questions which affect the operation.

know based on what the economic feasibility of the structure, ie the possibility that the whole system can be sustainable without the risk of being overwhelmed by debt collapsing like a house of cards?

On Railways.

Just the Fs, the company publishes more than one grant of Italy, that the miracle down the TAV (High Speed), with the elongation of very abnormal times and the multiplication of the costs downloaded onto the state budget, the ' company that despite all the claims can not circulate smoothly trains, especially for commuters, and despite repeated promises not able even to maintain the cleanliness of the carriages.
SEAL IN A DECISION SHADOW
Without the economic contribution of Fs nothing Ponte.

But on the other hand with the decisive contribution of Fs Bridge, economically speaking, partly on the wrong foot and get a chance even before the foundation stone laid for the beginning of December.

It is as if someone wanted to run a marathon on crutches or as if you put together two weaknesses.

The fact that the Railways are the backbone of their entire financial scaffolding appeared likely that the same reckless advocates of the work, which actually ended up hiding it in their official statements, government sites is no longer even traceable.

To retrieve the terms of a business should always be kept in shadow dust off an old document produced by the company in 2004 Straits of Messina when there are elements of the business plan with details of the mechanism underlying the feasibility of the project.
Five years ago the cost of the operation was planned in 6 billion euro (since increased to 6.3), to be depreciated at 50 percent in 30 years (cheèladuratadellaconcessione) attraversorate constant.

These installments must be paid, in fact, controlled by the Fs with the RFI (Italian Railways) who agrees to pay a minimum annual fee for the use of ferroviaria di 100,6 milioni di euro, più di 8 milioni al mese.
E non è finita perché le Ferrovie dovranno girare al gestore del Ponte anche il contributo che oggi ricevono dal ministero dei Trasporti a compensazione degli oneri sostenuti per il traghettamento da una parte all’altra del canale, cifre riscosse per garantire quella che gli addetti ai lavori chiamano la “continuità territoriale”.

Sono un’altra trentina di milioni (27,8 nel 2008 per l’esattezza) che sommati alla quota precedente fanno circa 130 milioni, 11 milioni al mese.

In più Rfi si impegna “ad effettuare a suo carico la manutenzione ordinaria e straordinaria”.
Tutto questo sforzo in exchange for what? Officially

Rfi becomes operator of the rail link work. "

And so it seems that a great deal.

In fact, the rail traffic of both people and goods between Sicily and Calabria is very modest, and in recent years has further shrunk to the benefit of air transport, particularly low cost.

According to the 2008 edition of the National Transport, the bible of the industry in 18 years, ie since 1990, the total number of cars passed through the Straits has dropped by 46.4 percent.

The decline was particularly abrupt in the last 8 years, from Duemila: meno 17,8 per cento con punte del 37 per i treni viaggiatori e con un decremento più contenuto per le merci (meno 3,5).

Peccato che le merci non abbiano granché bisogno di un collegamento veloce, e dal punto di vista degli scambi economici le 2-3 ore guadagnate sui tempi di percorrenza con il treno grazie al futuro Ponte siano di fatto quasi irrilevanti.
BOOM DEL TRAFFICO AEREO SULL’ISOLA
Mentre diminuisce a rotta di collo il traffico dei treni, registra un boom il numero dei viaggiatori negli aeroporti siciliani, più 200 per cento in totale a Catania, Palermo e Trapani (fonte Assaeroporti ed Enac). A Catania, in particolare, negli ultimi vent’anni la crescita è stata del 219 percento; 2000 to 2008, the number of transit passengers at the airport of Catania has increased from just under 4 million to 6.

If 19 years ago, also passed through the Strait about 15 million passengers a year between private ferries, trains and Fs, while the passengers out of the Strait were only 4 million, in 2008 the ratio was reversed: the passengers passed the Straits are in the minority, 10.7 million, mainly carried by private companies like Caronte & Tourist family Matacena, while outside the strait have more than doubled and now total one million more than the others, and of as almost all airline customers. Aficionados of

train, finally, appear small minority of the minority, on the order of hundreds of thousands of travelers.
between one side and the other, passing just now 8 pairs of passenger trains and eight freight per day, or 32 trains there and back.

So each year only 11,680 trains pass through the Straits, as many as you travel in a single day over the entire national rail network, and once built the bridge every train through the lavished by Fs pay fees, in fact, a toll stratospheric € 11,130 on average to travel 3 km and 300 meters, more than € 3 per meter of track.

ONLY SMILES IMPREGILO
Numbers hand, the matter of the canon is therefore far from a deal for the railways, as it is, and quite a bit for the future operator of the work, the company Impregilo, to which the previous Berlusconi government in 2005 commissioned the construction of structure, and the majority of whose members, incidentally, are also the famous "patriots" of the business-Cai Alitalia, Marcellino Gavio Ligresti to Benetton.

But because the Fs with little or no cost to slip in the business of the Strait of Messina Bridge will not escape the lion pact in favor of Impregilo?

Why can not, probably.
Being a public official from decisions politics and government funding can not get across to a deal that Berlusconi for the executive has become a kind of point of honor, a giant monument to the mythology of doing.

Moreover, the 2001 report of the Working Group of the Ministry of Transport to finding the low rail of the scaffold the Achilles heel of financial work. And calls to banks pay 60 percent of the funds needed for infrastructure at the time they understand that without adequate safeguards that would turn around.

What guarantees?

they got money for depreciation of at least half the work through the payment of a fee of course.
Railways, in essence, act as substitutes for financial institutions: the fiction is that pay for a service, the reality is that in exchange for a little overpaid.

But then, goes round and round, that money Fs are public money, the result of general taxation, that is disbursed by the law-abiding citizens through taxes.

Done The Daily, November 7, 2009