UIR hands the government a proposal to reform the Interports Act

"After 30 years of the institutional law," he said. explained the President of the Union Interports Reunited, Matteo Gasparato, as well as president of Verona Interport - Italians demand that he finally get his hand to a law of reordering of the interports, which puts Italy in step with other European countries.'

Highlighting that in the midst of a health emergency for the Covid-19 the system of the movement of goods has not collapsed even because it was "spiked" by the network intermodal and interportal structures that have continued to ensure that it is operational, Gasparato stressed that "the freight sector and transnational logistics hubs have shown, in this emerging world context, all their strategic value, also and especially for the European dimension interpreting in the Italian scenario."

Gasparato recalled that, while he could still express potential, the inter-port network is now a in Italy about 40% of the value added compared to that activated by all national logistics networks, including the sea, Italian interports as a whole have about 32 million square metres of areas and warehouses logistics and handling around 65 million tonnes of goods, with more than 46,000 trains departed/arrived per year.

Gasparato noted that the health emergency can represent a great opportunity for the logistics industry Intermodal and for the network of Italian interports and that this planning phase of the recovery can represent, therefore, the great opportunity to reform and modernize the network "For this reason," he noted, "I think it's a good way to President of the UIR - becomes necessary, as confirmed by the emergency phase, recognizing that logistics and interports country-wide primary and strategic services are and perform "services essentials" as also recognised by some recent judgments (State Council, Section Second, No. 1776 of 12.03.2020).

Receiving at the Ministry, on the occasion of the thirty-year anniversary, a delegation, Undersecretary Margiotta confirmed "During the Covid emergency, the logistics sector in the overall he held very well and, albeit with sacrifice, he allowed the country to move forward. Among the logistics sectors - he added - there is certainly that of the interports, which in the thirty years since the law has shown yes lights and but with italian and European peaks of excellence. Becomes necessary today -- agreed Margiotta -- rethinking the law, or by parliamentary or government initiative, to reordering and relaunching an industry that can be central even in this new phase of the economy.'