Instead that on rubber, now the grain of Barilla travels between Ravenna and Parma on track



The grain of Barilla now travels in train between Ravenna and the Interporto of Parma thanks to the which signed agreement the alimentary group with CePIM - Centro Padano di Interscambio Goods, the society that manages the interportuale center Parmesan. The understanding has allowed the activation of the intermodal of raw materials, coming transport from the North America, on railroad from the port of Ravenna to the railway terminal of the Interporto.

The new service is returned possible also by a series of commercial agreements and of partnership progettuale that CePIM has started for a long time it is with railway operators is with territorial agencies as the Emilia Romagna Region and the Harbour Authority of Ravenna, with which in last month of june an understanding for the strategic and operating development between the two hub - the Interporto of Parma and the port of Ravenna - in terms of new railway connections has been undersigned.

From the beginning of this month every week two dedicated trains, with 40 container purposely managed for this particular type of goods, cross Emilia Romagna in order to resupply the Flour mill of Pedrignano of Barilla, close Parma, been born for feeding with semolina autoprodotta the systems of production of the pasta. Previously the transport from the port of Ravenna to the Flour mill was executed with conventional trucks.

The organization of the processes is studied by CePIM in collaboration with Barilla in order to allow to realize an intermodal service door-to-door, from the introduction of the grain in the container mails on the train in areas directly covered of the harbour terminals of Ravenna until the delivery in the Flour mill of Pedrignano. Moreover CePIM and Barilla will work entirety in order to estimate eventual solutions for the ulterior improvement of the processes in a ecosostenibilità optical.

"This new initiative - the managing director of CePIM spa Interporto of Parma has explained, Luigi Capitani - besides the concrete contribution that they give to the topic of the ecosostenibilità, has the undeniable merit to have activated a collaboration between three entrepreneurial truths of Emilia Romagna, leader in their field. An operating synergy that is realized in tangible results for the territory and the economic development of the district".

"The importance of the start of this connection - it has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority of Ravenna, Galliano Di Marco - is sure in having carried to Ravenna a great operator as Barilla, but above all it is in the confirmed possession that the port of Ravenna, only port of the Region, is a valid one, strategic and competitive door of income for some types of goods, for the handling of which our port of call is to the first place in the Adriatic. This result is placed in the wider picture of the actions put in field in order to recover and to develop to competitiveness and market in the traditional area of reference of our port, that is the basin of the Emilia North and the Lombardy oriental. Agreements with the economic operators, with interposing to you, the companies of transport and the public administrations improve the interoperability of the logistic systems, integration with the other modalities of transport and contribute to the potenziamento of the services, task for example to those legacies to the European project "Port of Ravenna Fast Corridor" (single window, pre clearing, clearance in sea etc), and candidate the Port of Ravenna to become the access for the goods that gives Asia will arrive by sea in Italy for EXPO' 2015".