ANITA newly exhorts to allow the circulation of the Ecocombi on the Italian territory



ANITA, Italian association that represents the road haulage enterprises goods and logistics, newly exhorts to allow the circulation on the national territory of the vehicles expanded memory specification (European Modular System), also known as Ecocombi or Gigaliner, characterized from a greater length that reaches the 25,25 meters and composed from an engine with semitowing or an articulated truck with trailer.

Opening today the specific organized convention from the association on the topic "We open Italy to the innovations. Ecocombi: a truth in Europe, an opportunity for Italy", the designated president of ANITA, Thomas Baumgartner, has supported the necessity "to open Italy to the innovations and to pick the good practical from the other Countries of the European Union that have not precluded the possibility to experiment".

"ANITA - Baumgartner has remembered - supports for a long time that Italy cannot and does not have close the doors to the experimentations. The Ecocombi would be only used for determined produced bulky, determined roads and remain in a market niche, but they anticipate a valid solution in order to diminish the street congestion, to reduce the environmental impact and to wind down operating costs for the companies. Moreover they adapt well for the terminalistiche tractions of the arranged traffic railroad/road. The road haulage enterprises - it has emphasized - cannot behind remain regarding the enterprises of other States EU where such combinations are used".

"ANITA - she has continued the president of the association - believes firmly in the innovation, that he is fundamental in order to answer to the changes of the productive world and the society. The experiment of the P18 project goes well (that it has the scope to experience the performances of articulated trucks of the maximum length of 18 meters, ndr) that - has specified Baumgartner - it goes got ahead, but proposes to institute a consultation table, to which inviting all the actors involved, for a study of feasibility of the experimentation on the Ecocombi without prejudices".

ANITA has evidenced that "some studies demonstrate that even if the total mass of the Ecocombi is greater, these have a minor impact on the infrastructure since the cargo for axis is inferior. The expanded memory specification - the association has rimarcato - is also many profits for an ulterior development of the intermodal transport, as they allow to transport two cases you furnish (long and a short one), or a semitowing and a mobile case, with a single combination of vehicles".

The Italian association has remembered that the Countries members of the EU that afford the circulation of the Ecocombi with several programs of experimentation are Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. In the course of the Marco Irzik convention, in charge of the working group on the Ecocombi of the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) it has carried the German experience; the director Marten Johansson of the technical direction of the Swedish Association of Road Transport Companies (SÅ) has exposed the Swedish experiment; Ambro Smit, political secretary Affari and of markets of the Transport en Logistiek Nederland (TLN) has introduced the test on the Dutch roads. Alle observations of the representation, the experiences of the operators have joined: Roberto Martinez, director of XPO Logistics Iberia, Luca Biagetti, commercial director & marketing OMAR, and René Horsch, in charge of the area development you transport of Ikea.

In its conclusive participation the undersecretary to the Transports, Simona Vicari, has asserted that "we must win the challenge of the competitiveness and - he has added - in order to make it the government is heading at four fundamental aces: innovation and new technologies, intermodalità and optimization of the various modalities of transport, to advantage also of the environmental sustainability. With this objective we have put in field various measures, as Marebonus and Ferrobonus and new technological instruments, as the realized National Logistic Platform from the MIT, that it puts in connection the entire world of the logistics. But in order to return truly competitive the Italian trasportistico system and to the height of that of the best European operators it cannot be prescinded from the reorganization of the existing infrastructural net, beginning from the extraordinary maintenance of the roads and, above all after the recent events, from the maintenance of the bridges and the viaducts. The policies of the government in road haulage matter aim therefore to safeguard the business productivity, having as appraisal parameters street and social safety, the protection of the infrastructural patrimony and the reduction of the pollution".