Italian air, rail and sea services delayed due to outages
From CNN’s Barbie Latza Nadeau in Rome
Transport infrastructure across Italy, including trains, airports and highways, have been impacted by a sweeping outage.
In the Italian city of Genoa, long haul semi-trucks waiting to offload cargo at the Port of Pra were lined up nearly 20 kilometers (about 12 miles), the port authority said Friday. The tech outage caused the automated gate system to malfunction.
Further north, in Florence, Italy’s Trenitalia and Italo train networks were also suspended after systems went offline, the Transport ministry said. Passengers called emergency services and demanded to be let off the trains because of extreme heat, after enduring delays up to 140 minutes. Trains on rural rail lines have been stopped due to extreme heat.
Milan’s FTSE MIB stock market confirmed that it is unable to update figures.
Elsewhere, Italy’s major airports in Rome, Bologna, Milan and Palermo did not report infrastructure problems, but are experiencing major delays caused by other issues impacting takeoff and landing schedules.
Italy’s autostrada highway service ‘Autogrill’ also experienced malfunctions but were able to switch to manual systems for petrol and other services.
The country’s highway toll system also experienced delays with automated Telepass lanes, which utilize card readers tied to an international network.
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