Gefco Italy has realized its first international transportation entirely on railroad



Gefco Italy, branch Italian of the logistic group French Gefco, has carried to term its first international transportation entirely on railroad with shipping of an Italian textile machinery from Prato to the Uzbekistan realized through beyond 6.000 kilometers of tracks. After a first displacement on the road from Prato to Bergamo the international route towards Navoiy is begun, in Uzbekistan, through the intermediate stage of Chop, to the border between Hungary and Ukraine; here, in fact, the transfer of the machinery has been necessary on a new able car to cover drawn remaining of characterized Russian railroad from a gauge between the railroads different regarding the European standards.

"It has been - it has admitted Alberto Beltrami, overland sales manager - Central Italy di Gefco Italy - a challenging travel, but the success of the operation for us represents a precedence of great value for the intermodal service that we are able to at best offer to our customers, maximizing the logistic opportunities and taking advantage of the advantages of every means employed in the transport. To be able to count, as well as on a competence by now consolidated in the terrestrial transport, also on the contribution of the rail shipment on international drafts of this type - it has explained - attributes to added value to all our activities. Draft of an asset on which it is worth it to head and from which we expect new in future analogous satisfactions".

"A rail shipment on such distances - it has added Antonio Danti, commercial responsible for Giving Paolo and C. that it has commissioned the shipment - door two types of satisfaction: on one side the greater safety, because our machinery endures less sollicitations, risks and vibrations regarding a transport on the road; from the other a substantial reduction of the environmental impact allows, limiting the emission of co2 remarkablly. A more and more attractive solution if accompanied from a parallel increase of the logistic services".

Gefco Italy has specified to have cured, besides the transport, also the management of practical the customs ones in export and that the entire operation, duration a month and means between june and August, has benefited also of the synergies activated after the recent acquisition of 75% of Gefco by the RZD, the operator of the rail shipment in Russia ( on 5 November 2012).