During the past weeks, due to landslides and flooding, the railway traffic between Piedmont and Liguria had lots of problems. The line Alessandria-Ovada-Genova was stopped, and some container trains, to go from Alessandria to Genova have followed the route Alessandria-Torino-Fossano-Savona-Genova. Thanks to this situation, a "sea-type" container train came back to Torino: since 2006-2007, all intermodal shuttles between Genova and Torino were cancelled