Infrastructures and logistic innovation in order to exceed the tuttostrada



The dedicated infrastructure development and the logistic innovation is two key factors in order to upgrade the intermodal transport of the goods in Europe. These are the main prescriptions evidenced in the course of the convention "As exceeding the tuttostrada" organized from the General Consulate of Switzerland to Milan that has held 9th November near Centro Svizzero of Milan and that it has seen the participation, between the others, of Toni Eder, assistant manager of the Helvetic federal Office of the Transports, and Raffaele Cattaneo, city council member to Infrastructures and Mobility of the Lombardy Region.

According to the general manager of logistic society GEFCO Italy, Pierre-Jean Lorrain, he is fundamental "to make net" because all the actors at stake make a step forward: "to exceed the tuttostrada - Lorrain has said - it is sure one of our main challenges, and it could not be otherwise since it is the same European Union that asks us immediate expirations and remarkable engagements, but we do not have to forget that us it must be a combined engagement". The leader of the transalpine group has emphasized that in order to reduce the traffic on rubber it is necessary to improve the rail shipment and this is possible single thanks to new investments in infrastructures: "because, now as now, with the characteristics of the cars and the railroads in Italy - it has found - a sustainable cost on the railway one not is, at least on the medium distance. It is therefore necessary that the institutions make cargo of a railway potenziamento, new legislative sagacities and a new gust of liberalizations, for having greater flexibility and more accessible costs".

However - it has continued Lorrain - the introduction of measures of liberalization of the railway traffic and the optimization of existing infrastructures alone would not be enough. Also the logistic operators must make their part: "we must be in front line - he has specified - in order to move the traffic goods from railroad road. And this is possible single thanks to a management more rationalized of the costs, reorganizing the processes and limiting most possible inefficiencies. But the stimuli must reach also from our customers, than often in the past they asked only services the standard for the flexibility and rapidity. We have worked a lot in order to change such approach and in order to make to understand they it importance of the intermodalità". The general manager of GEFCO Italy has however observed that today this conditioning of the committenza is smaller and more and more customers they stimulate intermodal solutions: "obviously - it has concluded - it is our task to improve this trend for an in transport more and more sustainable future".