Agreement between Liguria, Lombardy and Piemonte in order to work on a project of potenziamento of infrastructures



Saturdays, in the within of the universal exposure Expo Milan 2015, the presidents of the Liguria Regions, Lombardy and Piemonte, Giovanni Toti, Roberto Maroni and Sergio Chiamparino, have undersigned an understanding protocol in order to define the first steps that will carry to work on a project of potenziamento of infrastructures with the objective to create to a territory comprised between the Tyrrhenian north and competitive Bavaria in the field of the logistics.

The understanding, that Arena 2020 is signed in occasion of the encounter "The Rhin Alpes", previews, beyond to a cabin of "political" direction composed from the presidents of the three Regions, also "a technical" cabin as instrument of governance of sovraregionale level in order to define a shared platform of the articulations of the logistic platform of North-West.

"The system of from Liguria ports with that of the Piedmontese and Lombardic connections, westward through the high Turin-Lyon speed and towards the north through Switzerland - it has found Chiamparino - can constitute a competitive logistic platform with those of the Europe North, as Rotterdam and Antwerp. In particular thinking to the doubling of the Suez Canal, that it will ulteriorly move the traffic of goods through the Mediterranean".

"We - the president of the Lombardy Region has explained, Roberto Maroni - are interested to this coordination without the pretension of being hegemonic, even if in Lombardy there is a strong concentration of logistic activities: the section is worth 10 billion euros pairs to 30% of all the national logistics and generates 30% of the national traffic, in great part towards international destinations". "In Lombardy - it has continued Maroni - they are active 18,000 to about 90.000 indirectly assigned enterprises that directly gives job or. Every year tons of goods are transported 400 million, pairs to 24% of those national ones, of which 24 million on iron and, for giving some given other, based on a statistics they are the 60 vehicles for transport goods for every kilometer of street net and the 22,900 tons of goods for km of street net, pairs to the triple one of that Italian".

"It is an agreement - it has emphasized the president of the Liguria, Giovanni Toti - between three Regions that are in communication and have common models of development and that they need to modernize their infrastructures".