Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal (MIST), a company of railway manoeuvring and integrated logistics of the Logistics Pole of the FS railway group, has acquired the specialized business unit in the transport of railway material located in the road of Pantano (Terni) of the road haulage and transport company intermodal Autamarocchi. The acquired business unit consists of 37 employees including drivers, warehouse workers and transport coordinators, in addition to a fleet equipped with specific equipment and composed nine tractors, seven trailers and three semi-trailers. MIST made I note that the collaboration with Autamarocchi for the use of articulated vehicles.

«To have enriched the Logistics Pole of this branch of company - explained Sabrina De Filippis, managing director of Mercitalia Logistics, the leading company of the Logistics Hub - allows us to take another step to offer our Customers transport services from start to finish, from first at the last mile, with a synergistic collaboration between iron and rubber. All this in line with the strategies of the Business Plan which, in this segment, plans to increase the share of self-handling of road transport services up to 60%».

Meanwhile, the Bari Ferrotramviaria has announced that from Monday Next will become five weekly train movements goods Parma-Giovinazzo, which will continue twice a week to the Brindisi terminal. The train will be able to carry standard non-craneable semi-trailers thanks to the use of new railway wagons, as well as loading containers of different sizes, swap bodies and semi-trailers with profile up to P400. Units of loading will be able to continue throughout Southern Italy and take advantage of the maritime gateway to Turkey/Greece or more generally to Balkans. From Parma you can take advantage of the existing connections with France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the Scandinavian countries.