Freight Council Leaders proposes customs only door, technologies and shuttle trains



Yesterday near Sala Wella to Rome, to the presence of public authorities, expert and operating of the logistic and harbour field, the logistic association Freight Leaders Council (FLC) has introduced a series of proposals with the objective to optimize the harbour, railway and interportuali activities, improving the commercial exchanges with the hinterland, that they are contained in the published from association and entitled Notebook 23 "From the port to the hinterland: solutions for a competitive logistic chain".

The document - that it reassumes its proposals in 11 points to conclusion of the study - characterizes the criticalities of the Italian harbour system in four areas of participation: customs, connections with the hinterland, employment of the technologies, intermodal resource to the railway one. In particular the study finds - together with the Agency of Customs - the delay in the performance of the customs only door, wishing also the harmonization of the timetables of service of the staff in charge of the numerous administrative controls, so as to be able to concentrate them in only location and a digitalizzazine of the paper documents, being reduced so costs and times of the operations of drainage of the goods.

As for the intermodal connections with retroporti and centers, Notebook 23 of the FLC of it finds the infrastructural deficiencies and the variety of the subjects that would have to manage of the flows and proposes uses it of railway multimodali services (shuttle trains) in order to climb over the congested traffic of the metropolitan areas in whose historical centers find the greater national ports.

The document remembers, moreover, than you decree "You grow Italy" and "Italy Saves", launched from the precedence government already they allow with the Harbour Authorities to carry out functions of coordination of the local authorities who insist on the territory and to obtain "a first kernel of autonomy financial institution": they can, in fact, use 1% of the VAT and the octrois collected in the ports and interposing to you re-entering in territorial administrative divisions of the same ones, until a maximum of 70 million euros the year, for the realization of infrastructural works.

A greater employment of the intermodal feroviario transport, continues the document, above all regarding the last mile and the terminalizzazione, depends also from technical improvements, as the electrification not only of the railroads of taken and delivery, but also of the root of the refuel/defuel railroads and, in order "to increase to the efficiency of the maneuvers and the range of the terminalistici services", to obtain the "equipment of equipment for the test of the brake".

The technological improvement of the equipments would allow, moreover, "the train-shuttle realization "that, inserted in an intermodal logistic cycle, they succeed to represent valid alternatives regarding the transport on rubber also for drafts to beam mean-short, as often they turn out the ways port-retroporto".

The technology, at last, supplies multiple opportunities in order to optimize the flows of goods between ports and hinterland. The FLC indicates some projects in course - the Preclaring and the Troubadour, respective on the computerized customs declarations and the electronic seals of the container - but perceives that the use of the technologies does not go limited to the exchange of information, but goes extended to the ' automation in the operations of intermodal transfer in order to favor the efficiency of the rail shipment.

The 11 processes proposed from Freight Council Leaders inside of the Notebook
PROCESS	WITHIN	CURRENT CRITICALITIES	CHARACTERIZED SOLUTION
Institutional controls of the goods in arrival/departure	Customs	Procedures lens and farraginose for the coordination of the institutional controls in cargo to the several Administrations.	Performance of the Unico Doganale Door near all the national truths
Institutional controls of the goods in arrival	Customs	The control operations are executed in port not allowing to extend the harbour dock towards the interporti/retroporti in order to guarantee a greater fluidity of the operations.	Anticipated transmission (Preclearing) of goods in arrival in order to plan and to coordinate the operations of escape from the terminal and performance of integration between the customs computer science system and UIRNet for tracking of the goods.
Institutional controls of the goods in import, transit and export	Customs	The articulation of the timetables of the staff of the Administrations/Agencies involved in the clearance process does not allow to assure a presence h24.	To preview flexible articulations of timetable near the more important unwinds commercial than income and of escape of the goods also to the aim to at best take advantage of the opportunities promised from the "customs Only Door".
Documentation that accompanies the train	Rail shipment	Paper trail that accompanies the train slows down the departure operations train	To transmit to the documentation between sender and addressee in electronic format. To consider the locomotore as a "travelling office" where to write up and to receive documents.
Monitoring of the exercise	Rail shipment	All the trains are only monitored by RFI through PICWEB. The control of the tempistiche of arrival train is managed by every terminal and enterprises of maneuver through "channels off board".	Information on the tempistiche of arrival train supplied directly by RFI.
Exercise (services of verification, formation and test brake)	Rail shipment	The services of verification, formation and test brake can be supplied in service solo from certifyd railway enterprises.	To allow also to enterprises that are not Railway Enterprises to supply propedeutici railway services to the departure train.
Performances and transport perishable goods	Rail shipment	In Italy the trains reach the 500 meters and have a effort to the hook pairs to 1000 tons. The transport of perishable goods via train is limited for the electric power supply absence on the railway wagons.	Adoption of elettropneumatiche valves for the contemporary braking of all the wagons of the convoy so as to allow to elevate such limits so as to guarantee a railway service to the pairs of those offered from the other European Countries. The equipment of the conduct electrical worker would allow to carry out the transport of the containers reefer.
Creation of integrated logistic systems	Port/hinterland	The criticalities that plague the historical harbour cities are the commistione between various carrier language flows and the consequent creation of conflicts between the traffic currents that can create real necks of bottle.	I use of railway multimodali services between port and hinterland coordinated that they allow to reduce the flows of traffic in the harbour cities.
Realization of which electrified railway accesses	Rail shipment	The trains cannot be formed directly in the harbour terminal: this cause cargo breaches tied to services of maneuver and composition of the train.	The directed railway access to the harbour terminal is a key element for throws again of the competitiveness of the arranged transport sea-railroad. They are therefore to prefer the grafts directed in net of the coming branches from the harbour zones.
Cargo breaches tied to the services of railway maneuver and composition of the train	Rail shipment	The efficiency of the rail shipment is penalized by the times of transfer in the intermodal terminals because of the long and expensive cargo breaches tied to the services of maneuver and composition of the train.	To realize railway terminals, equipped with technological solutions and computer science advances, that they operate under the power line of contact of the locomotori, affording so to load and to unload the units from train train or heavy vehicle train in an only entirely automated operation, in full safety and respect of the atmosphere.
Integrated and intelligent managerial systems	Interporto/intermodal terminal	Insufficient coordination and exchange of information between operators, intrinsic complexity of the problem of optimization of the use of the resources.	Artificial intelligence connected to the managerial systems INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY of the various operators.