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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8181

28 March 2002
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
Franco-Italian agreement on Mont-Blanc tunnel

Brussels, 27/03/2002 (Agence Europe) - Transport Ministers Jean-Claude Gayssot (France) and Pietro Lunardi (Italy) reached an agreement, on Tuesday, for gradually opening up the Mont-Blanc tunnel to heavy goods vehicles. Italy finally agreed to reopening in three stages by the summer, beginning with the opening to HGV of under 19 tonnes "in the next few days". Both parties have still to fix the dates for these stages. Heavy goods traffic must, however, remain less than 2,500/2,600 perr day,...

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