(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 06 NOV - The new railway service that will connect Trieste's port with the hub of Nuremberg, northern Bavaria, began on Tuesday. Initially, the frequency will be weekly, and then there will be two services a week by 2021, the port reported. The project is "further proof - said the President of Port System Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea, Zeno D'Agostino - that intermodality manages to create important opportunities for the port of Trieste as well as guarantees connectivity with European industrial areas." The project - the Authority explained - was born in the footsteps of the consolidated presence of Dfds, a Danish group leading in Ro-Ro transport and shareholder of the Samer Seaports terminal, which will move the units arriving and departing from its ships between Trieste and Bavaria. Joint Mercitalia Rail-TX will operate the connection in collaboration with Alpe Adria. The service will connect Trieste's pier V with the TriCon terminal in Nuremberg, managed by the "Bayernhafen" group. In addition to transferring the traffic volumes of the Turkish and Greek markets sustainably, the service will be a pole of attraction for the export of the industrial areas of ;;Bavaria and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Contacts were also established with regional players to verify the possibility of using the Cervignano hub as an aggregator of further traffic volumes. "This new train - D'Agostino said - confirms that the international vocation is a prerogative of the logistics system of the port of Trieste and is above all an expression of its strategic identity, which has always aimed at increasing railway connectivity with central Europe, starting with a historical trade partner like Bavaria." (ANSA).