Interporto Padua celebrates own fourty-year period remembering that it has given the go-ahead to the history of the Italian interportualità



Today Interporto Padua Spa has celebrated own fourty-year period with a ceremony that - it has emphasized the interportuale society - is not a ritual of no use as "the history of the Italian interportualità has been born just here between 1970 and 1973 thanks to the intuition of two illuminated people: professor Mario Volpato, then president of the Chamber of Commerce that developed the same concept central of exchange between the several modalities of transport (street, railway and fluvio-marine), concept until then disowned, and Mauro Ferretti to the age inspector of the Commercial Service of the FS that, own to Padua in occasion of a convention of the Tramag - Interporto Padua has remembered -, coined the neologism "interporto" now universal used. Two "visionary ones" that was not limited to conjecture these platforms of modal exchange, but were engaged to realize them indeed. It was thanks to the efforts of Municipality, Chamber of Commerce and Province of Padua on one side and the Railroads of the State from the other, than in 1973 Interporto Padua was founded".

Today Interporto Padua Spa is and an on a national level international truth that it more enlivens than 250.000 container teu (given year 2012, with a +26% on 2011). Interporto possesses a land surface of about 1,1 million square metres and is owner of about 270.000 square metres covered of warehouses and cells beyond to an intermodal terminal. Here almost one hundred companies of the field with more are installed than 3.000 assigned. Last year in the interportuale area tons of goods are enlivened 4,4 million, 43% of which through the intermodal traffic. Goods to high added value, from the machinery for the Tac hospitals worker to the shoes (than more 10 million seems in 2012), to the household appliance ones. The turnover of the companies which installed, always last year, has been of about 370 million euros with a value of the goods enlivened calculated prudenzialmente in beyond 8,5 billion euros.

Interporto Padua has remembered that, on the intermodal front, the interportuale structure is connected with about 5.000 trains the year to the ports of La Spezia (24% of the traffics on track), Genoa (22%), Livorno (18%), Rotterdam (11%), Trieste (7%) and Koper (1%) and that from the 2012 padovana society that is work also as MTO (Multimodal Transport Operator) offers own intermodal trains to the operators of the transport, beside the traditional terminalistica activity.

In occasion of the 40° anniversary of constitution Interporto Padua it has organized a to which they have participated Mauro Moretti, Italian managing director of the Group FS, Alessandro Ricci, President of Union To interpose Rijniti to you, (UIR), Luigi Merlo, president of Assoporti, and Renato Chisso, city council member to the Transports of the Regional one of Veneto.

Moretti has been said ready to engage as group FS, today economically healthy ("in 2006 on a turnover of 2,6 billion - it has evidenced - lost 2,115 billion; today I invoice 8,5 billion and I have a profit clearly of 380 million that would be 800 if we did not have to pay the debits of who it has preceded to us"), to make own part for the transport goods in Italy, but it has remembered as that by him guided is a company that must be on the market. "Servants - it has emphasized - clear and defined politics of the transports as it has been made in Germany, where the State has decided that the logistics is a strategic activity for the economy of the nation and that must be guaranteed also through two great public companies as Deutsche Post and Deutsche Bahn that they give then has acquired the equivalent of 18 billion euros of enterprises and they have become the greatest logistic operator. This wants to say to make clear policies, to have precise objectives and not to scorn own public enterprises".

If on who and as must be made the railway maneuvers in the ports the points of view between the president of Assoporti and Moretti does not coincide, but on a point there is agreement: "it together lacks - Luigi Merlo has confirmed - a vision of and national politics that translate it in concrete facts: it is spoken about sufficient ability to our ports, but it is not spoken about the quality of this ability, fragmented in 100 Harbour Authorities, with prevailing of the parochial and localist visions. The last year us has shown a clamorous failure of the reform laws is of the ports that of interposing to you. We want that the new Parliament annuls all and starts to an only law of reform that has an indeed European breath. It wants a radical change to us of mentality: we as Assoporti we were in agreement in a reduction of the number of the Harbour Authorities, but from the Commission instead of the reduction that we had asked era quite come the creation for two new Authorities. Here this does not have more to happen".

The proliferation regards also interposing to you: "it must have the courage - the president of UIR, Alessandro Ricci has explained - to say that some of interposing previewed you to light of the new economic scenes and the new markets do not have more reason than to exist. This does not want to say that they must be cancelled, but that a various activity must imagine. They are in agreement with Merlon, it is necessary to approve of a reform of the law on interposing to you, and not in two or three years but in some month".

The city council member to Mobility of the Venetian Region, has launch shooting with an arrow to Trenitalia: "we had a project entirety, that of common a railway enterprise goods regional, putting in Trenitalia synergy Cargo and ours Territorial Systems in order to optimize a series of transport activities cargo that now suffer in our region - has accused Chisso - but your bureaucracy has braked all". Chisso has aimed the finger also at the confusion of the customs operations that they make to lose to the companies precious days in transit the Time of the goods and increase the costs. "With interposing to you and trade associations - it has specified the city council member - we are pressing because the experimentation of the customs only door, started on Ravenna from the Agency of Customs quickly is extended also to our ports".

Hardest in conclusion Moretti on the aids to the street transport: "it is a madness - it has denounced - to continue to give a billion per year to the road haulage, billion that among other things does not remain in the cases of the enterprises that have succeeded in to propose rates from 0,60 euros per kilometer. We continue in this schizophrenia to ask the realization for new railroads and, instead pursuing a modal balance rubber-iron, stimulating the road haulage. We will find ourselves with new railroads, but without trains, the full roads of motor vehicles and a Country to the disaster".