It is of 14 billion euros the turnover recorded in 2014 from the Italian shipment houses



Last year the 1,750 active shipment companies in Italy, that it directly gives job to a total of 30.000 people, have recorded a total turnover of 14 billion euros and have generated of 14,9 billion euros of custom duties (VAT and custom offices) that they are poured in 2014 in the cases of the State on behalf of own customers.

These are the main data of the operating section spedizionieristico in Italy that are contained inside "Fast Forwarding Italy", the study elaborated from the C-log - Research center on the Logistics of the Cattaneo University - LIUC on behalf of Fedespedi (National Federation of the International Shipment Enterprises). The document, that it evidences the characteristics, the role and the contribution of the shipment enterprises to the Italian economy in particular in the complex phases of import/export of the goods with origins and destinations all over the world, is realized by a team of investigators and experts of guided international commerce from the director of the C-log, Fabrizio Dallari, and is introduced this morning to Milan in the within of the shareholders' meeting of Fedespedi, federation to which is under responsibility beyond 1.500 Italian shipment companies.

Regarding the profile of the section, the study evidences a structure centralized on the medium small enterprises (86% of the companies realizes in fact a turnover that arrives until 10 million euros while only 2% exceed 50 million euros) with strong merceologiche or geographic specializations and a good number of structured players that in the time they have been transformed from houses to shipment enterprises (75% of the market is realized by less of 15% of the companies).

From the point of view of geographic localization, the search shows a greater concentration of the enterprises in the Italy North, where 75% of the shipment companies are present. Milan, in particular, turns out to be the privileged area of takeover of the shippers, is of the headquarters of the national large groups and international it is of the operating units of enterprises with headquarters outside from Lombardy. They follow for importance the provinces characterized from important harbour clusters which Genoa, Livorno and Venice and those which play a role pulling ahead in the Italian manifacturing system as Bologna, Brescia, Florence and Vicenza.

With reference to the economic weight of the companies of the field, 14 billion euros of generated total turnover in the 2014 are pairs to about 20% of the Italian turnover of the entire field of the transports and the logistics, an important data if it is considered that it is the contribution of sun 1,750 companies on a total of 100.000 active enterprises of the logistics in Italy. Moreover, of 14 billion euros totals very 12 billion euros haulers, marine and aerial companies, terminalisti, doganalisti and CAD constitute induced for the suppliers engaged to miscellaneous the title in the logistic chain (, etc.), to testimony of the value that the shipment activity generates for all the actors of the supply chain of the field.

The relationship finds moreover that, by virtue of the national norm with respect to the responsibility in solid of the shippers in it confronts of the State treasury, the shipment enterprises carry out a role of great importance also for the State. In 2014, only considering the goods in import, the custom duties poured from the companies of the field to the cases of the State are piled to 14,9 billion euros, of which 12,9 billion euros of VAT (poured quarterly) and two billions of euro of custom offices (of which 25% embedded from the State treasury for effect of the income of goods of extra origin EU through Italian ports and airports).

The search shows also as, for the companies characterized, the export it constitutes a quota of advanced turnover regarding the import and as the marine transport is the modality of transport more used continuation from that earthling and that aerial.

Moreover, in the presence of geographic and merceologiche specializations, the main area of activity of the operating shipment enterprises in Italy turns out to be Asia, continuation from the Middle East, America North and Centro Sud America and the type of goods mostly enlivened that of the fields of the mechanics, the automation and the automotive, continuation from the textile one, the apparel and the footwear and that tied to the section of the system one.