TRIESTE – With the approval of the 2026 Budget Law, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region has allocated €1.6 million to acquire the RFI area known as Cervignano Smistamento, a decommissioned site bordering the interporto.

«An intervention that finally provides a concrete and strategic solution to an issue that has been open for years, restoring to regional logistics a fundamental infrastructure that can be fully recovered for its rail function», commented Cristina Amirante, the Region’s councillor for Infrastructure and Territory.

The area, covering around 200,000 square metres, had previously been identified by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana as a possible site for a photovoltaic park—a project that led to the removal of almost all tracks, leaving only two still in service. «Thanks to steady, serious and shared work with RFI — Amirante underlined — we managed to bring the area back to its original vocation. The site is already rail-connected; this will make it possible to bring back into operation a space that is essential for the development of activities».

The Cervignano interporto—now close to saturation—will thus have an immediately functional expansion, able to support growing rail freight traffic. Recovering the area will in fact make it possible to increase the number of trains that can be handled, strengthening the infrastructure’s interconnection capacity with the national network and the main European corridors.

The Region stressed that local economic development can go hand in hand with sustainable choices. Making available already serviced land, rather than building on new sites, is seen as an environmental and economic value that it intends to preserve.
The project was shared with RFI, the Cervignano interporto and the Municipality of Cervignano. For the Region, it is a measure that restores competitiveness to regional logistics and fits into the broader plan to strengthen rail transport launched by Friuli Venezia Giulia. Cervignano is considered a strategic node, also in view of the possible development of the ports of Trieste, Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro under the IMEC Corridor project.
The intervention also aims to strengthen the role of the Cervignano interporto as a strategic rail hub for the entire North-East.