The sixth edition of "A Sea of Switzerland", conference On the issues of infrastructure, transport and logistics, will be held on 2 October in Lugano, in the usual venue of the LAC, Lugano Art and Culture. Three main sessions of the meeting which is organised by the Ticino Section of ASTAG, The Swiss Road Transport Association. The first focused on the relationship between road transport and railways and on concrete prospects not only of transition, but also of integration between two modes of transport that will remain; the second direct from the port system of Genoa and Savona on the report Sea-territories and the third on the logistics issue with particular reference to hinterlands, freight centres and traffic flows.

Program

9.30 am	START WORK: Greetings
	Michele Foletti, Mayor of the City of Lugano
	Marco Bucci, Mayor of Genoa
	Raffaele De Rosa, President of the Council of State
	Adriano Sala, President of ASTAG Ticino
	Filippo Lombardi, President LILF (Lugano International Logistics Forum)
10.15	FIRST SESSION:
	Iron-rubber: integration, not opposition
	Alexander Muhm, Head of Freight Traffic SBB CFF FFS
	Reto Jaussi, Director of ASTAG
	I. ROUND TABLE:
	The role of road transport and the energy transition possible
	Francesco Romano, Managing Director Scania Schweiz AG "The ecological transition and new generation trucks. What the challenges and timing of implementation towards minors or no emissions"
	Giuseppe Di Iorio, Director Camion Transport SA "The use electric, hydrogen or alternative fuel trucks. What are the challenges for road haulage entrepreneurs in terms of construction of the necessary infrastructures, management of Fleets and use"
	Maurizio Longo, Secretary General of Trasportounita "The Italian situation"
11.00	SECOND SESSION:
	Route to the Mediterranean
	Paolo Piacenza, Extraordinary Commissioner of the AdSP del Mar Western Ligurian "From the breakwater to the future of the most great logistics hub of southern Europe"
	II. ROUND TABLE:
	Industry, logistics and Mediterranean
	Juan Pablo Richards, Region South Europe Senior Managing Director Hapag-Lloyd
	Giuseppe Prudente, Senior Vice President & Chief Logistic Officer MSC
	Massimiliano Cozzani, Marketing & Sales Senior Manager PSA
	Representative of Migros Group
	Fabio Regazzi, National Councillor, President USAM and Swiss Shippers' Council
	Stefano Messina, President of Assarmatori
12.15	THIRD SESSION:
	The logistics hub of the South West From incomplete to ultimate. The system of works
	Gianpiero Strisciuglio, CEO of Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI)
	Remigio Ratti, VP SwissRailvolution and Comitato ProGottardo
	III. ROUND TABLE:
	Backports, freight centers and middle lands
	Angelo Betto, Member of the SpedlogSwiss Ticino Committee
	Ignazio Messina, CEO Ignazio Messina & C. Spa
	Vincenzo Romeo, CEO Nova Marine Carriers
	Beni Kunz, Executive Board Member Hupac Group
	Gerardo Ghiliotto, Vice President of the Slala Foundation
	Alessandro Santi, President of Federagenti
13.00	CONCLUSIONS
	Compared: Ministries of Transport Switzerland - Italy
	Edoardo Rixi, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Infrastructure Transportation, Italy
	Albert Rösti, Head of the Federal Department of the Environment and Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC), Switzerland
	The work will be moderated by:
	Simone Gallotti (Il Secolo XIX, Genoa) and Alessandro Chiara (RSI, Lugano)