Today
to Melzo (Milan) beyond 50 managers in representation of the more important Swiss shippers and industrial groups has participated to the organized event from the Swiss Shippers' Council (SSC), the organization that represents the Swiss multimodali operators, and from two intermodal operators IMS Rail Switzerland and Hannibal (group Contship Italy) that last May they have started a new railway service between from Liguria ports and Frenkendorf, near Basel, through the terminal container of Melzo.
Introducing the day Sebastiano Grasso, vice-president Intermodalità & Logistica of the group Contship Italy and managing director of the Hannibal, has emphasized that "the terminal of Melzo is developed in order to offer to the customers reliable logons between the Italian ports and the more important European economic areas. We will continue - it has added - to ulteriorly develop the opportunities of new logistic solutions for the Swiss loaders that can count on a reliable Italian partner and of great experience". "the terminal of Melzo, renominated "Dry Port" of Milan - Bernhard Metzger, vice-president of SSC and in charge of the Transports and of the Logistics of Migros has confirmed, the more important chain than Swiss supermarkets - is a perfect door of access for the traffics managed from the Swiss operators through the ports of the South Europe".To the presentation Terminal of Contship Italy has participated also to Marco Simonetti, vice-president Marine that has illustrated the main innovations in the ports of the group, while Wolfgang Tomassovich, managing director of IMS Rail, has introduced the current railway logons with the ports of La Spezia and Genoa that offer important Time advantages transit through the services operated from the greatest lines than navigation mondiali.