the logistics is a fundamental asset for the economic development of Italy and Southern Italy



With a value of about 200 billion euros, in Italy the section of the logistics, that it gives job to beyond a million people, represents 12.7% of the Gross Domestic Product one. It evidences the Logistic search "and economic development. Economic scenes, analysis of infrastructures, perspectives of increase" that Studies and Searches for Southern Italy (SRM) have introduced today in the course of an organized convention to Naples, in the Room of the Assemblies of the Bank of Naples.

"We often speak - it has found the president of the Maurizio Barracco, Bank of Naples, opening the encounter - about competitiveness of our enterprises, of their problems in the field of the innovation, the patrimonializzazione and their difficulty to compete on the markets foreign countries, but we do not focus ourselves with the necessary attention on how much he is determining for the companies to be able to have of a efficient logistics and with sustainable costs. The Bank of Naples always looks with great attention to the requirements of the companies of our territory and to their opportunities on the international markets and with the today's convention we have intentional to put on the table and to discuss some problems not more rimandabili that too much often are transformed in a heavy competitive handicap for our enterprises".

"The search - the general manager of SRM has confirmed, Massimo Deandreis, that he has introduced the document with Anna Arianna Buonfanti, researcher of the Area Infrastructures of SRM - evidences the great support that the logistics supplies to the internationalization of our enterprises, but also the criticalities of the section. Costs greater and longer times of shunting of the average European weigh on our competitiveness that in fact withdraws in the international classifiche. The time of a normative reform of ports is mature and to interpose to you, a greater attention to the opportunities of the Mediterranean area and political deep turned assets to favor a more efficient use of the communitarian ones. These can be some of the levers on which acting. Besides this specific search introduced today - it has announced Deandreis - SRM it will inaugurate soon a Permanent Observatory on the row of the marine economy. A which thought instrument in order to offer to the economic operators of the field detailed analysis but also confronts and international examples. Come Centro Studi this is our way for giving a useful contribution to a determining field for the competitiveness of our Country".

The search of SRM remembers that Italy is to 24° the place in the world-wide ranking for logistic performance on the base of the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) elaborated from the Bank World. The greater criticalities regard the customs procedures (27ª position), while the best one rank (18ª) for Italy are on the parameter of the punctuality of shipments. The characterized logistic criticalities involve for the Italian enterprises a wait of 19 days in order to export and/or 17 days in order to import a container respect to an average EU of 11 days.

In Italy - specific the search - the cost of the logistics out-tops of 11% regarding the average European. Such difference creates a burden for the system of the enterprises estimable in about 12 billion euros the year. Only 6.3% of the volumes that journey for Suez reach in Italy because of the delays and of the uncertainties on the transit times of the goods. This is translate in a loss is in terms of profit for the local imprenditoria is in terms of benefits for the State. Many national companies choose the ports of call foreign countries for handling of their cargos: the volume of goods with origin/destination in Italy that journeys for the ports of the Europe North piles to about 440 thousand teu.

In Italy, considering all the fields connected to the logistics, are anticipate beyond 160 thousand enterprises, of which 17% they are capital society. Southern Italy boasts the presence of beyond 45 thousand enterprises. In Campania, Sicily and Puglia are concentrated 70.5% of the logistic companies of the South Italy.

The road with 35.6% and the sea with 30.5% - the search of SRM explains - is the main modalities of Italian transport of the goods in import-export. This last percentage doubles if Southern Italy is considered. Still the quota the transport is reduced goods on railroad (2%). Also in the first semester 2013 Italy has confirmed the first partner in trade with area MED with 29,3 billion euros of interchange and these 76% (pairs to 22,2 billion euros) is ascribable to the marine transport.

The Italian ports enliven a traffic of the container pairs to about 9,6 million teu, of which 46% from the ports of call of Southern Italy, and altogether they enliven 466 million tons of goods. Italy is first Eu country 27 for goods enlivened in Short Sea Shipping in the Mediterranean with 204,4 million tons (37.5% of the Europe total).

In Italy there are moreover 19 to interpose operating and have contributed to you to the development of the intermodal and railway transport enlivening beyond 1,7 million teu, little less than a million than UTI and little more than 100.000 wagons than railway traffic.

According to elaborations of SRM on a panel of beyond 4.400 enterprises, the estimated turnover of the logistic field in single the Southern Italy is of beyond 8,5 billion euros.

The search, in the focus on the Campania, evidences as the sea and the road are the main modalities used from of the Campania enterprises for the exchanges import-export, with 46% of the total value of the goods in the first case and 26.3% in the second (first semester 2013). The enterprises of the several fields connected to the logistics in Campania are about 14 thousand; a quarter is capital society. The commercial interchange between the Campania and the remainder of the world to first semester 2013 is pairs to beyond 9,8 billion euros, had for the remaining 51.5% to the import and quota to flows in escape from the region. Regarding the analogous period of 2012, a decrease of 3.3% is recorded. Regarding, instead, the areas involved in the exchanges, the first partner of the Campania are the Countries of the European Union that absorb 47.3% of the total; they follow those of Asia oriental (11.5%) and those of remaining European territories (10.6%). Main the goods in input/output from the region regards food (17.9% of the total) and the metals and the manufactured products in metal (15.8%). The region is considered by the search as "Area to logistic density" as possesses requisitioned entrepreneurial, infrastructural and potentialities of development such from being able to represent one of the territories fly for the development of the Country.

Regarding at last the works of the 443/01-Objective law, the last territorial division of the costs of the Program Strategic Infrastructures assigns to of the Campania works 21,4 billion euros pairs to 5.7% of the national value. The majority of the participations is relative, among other things, to the net street (5,6 billion) and railway (7,2 billion). Between main the logistic participations they on September 30, 2012 figure the adaptation and the potenziamento of the road and railway accesses of the hub harbour of Naples-Salerno (with a cost of 261,5 million euros and an availability of 6.2%) and the hub interportuale of Nola, Battipaglia, Marcianise/Maddaloni (with a cost of 203,4 million euros and an availability of 76.7%).