Fercam, the competitiveness of the ports of the Europe North will grow ulteriorly to the detriment of the Mediterranean ports



The logistic group Fercam of Bolzano has exhorted to accelerate the development of infrastructures and the intermodal connections with the Italian ports so that the customers address their goods through these ports of call rather than to privilege the nordeuropei ports, ports of call as Rotterdam and Antwerp that - Fercam previews - with the opening of the gallery of Saint Gottardo in Switzerland will assume a role still more important for the intercontinental exports.

"For us as logistic operators, but also for all woven productive of the Milanese area - the managing director of Fercam has explained, Thomas Baumgartner - the better intermodal connections iron/road would be of fundamental importance for being able to send the goods from the logistics centers, not only towards the Europe North, but also towards the Italian ports and the destinations to south of the Po eaves".

"Already now - he has clarified Baumgartner - our customers ask us to embark the container in ports the Nordic, more efficient and traditionally less expensive of the ports of the Mediterranean". Competitiveness of the nordeuropei ports that - according to Fercam - will be able exactly to grow ulteriorly with the opening of the gallery of the Saint Gottardo that will allow the circulation of trains of 750 meters and the weight until 2.000 tons, and - it has specified the company of Bolzano - the railway productivity on this draft will increase of 30%.

Fercam has evidenced that "the ports of the north will be therefore still more neighbors to the productive zone of the Po plain and I compare costs/benefits between Mediterranean ports and ports of the north will be destined to increase in favor of the ports of the Europe North".

Specifying that the group almost carries out 300 thousand transports to loaded suit per year, of which only 15% in intermodal modality railroad/road, Baumgartner has specified that the customers of Fercam "ask ecocompatibili services and - has found - the intermodal system is able to satisfy these requirements, but - it has emphasized Baumgartner - it is necessary that the railway infrastructure is apt to the container transport high cube and semitowings with height standard of four meters on the connections from the Po eaves towards the south Italy and the ports also on the central Appennine ridge".