ALIS, the Intermodal Logistics Association Sustainable, celebrated the seven years since its establishment with a meeting of the Governing Council in Rome, which welcomed the representatives of three companies and registered the adhesion of new members to the organization. Pointing out that in In recent years, the association "has made enormous progress in the Promotion of sustainable development of transport, logistics and all services related to a truly strategic for our country and for Europe," the president of ALIS, Guido Grimaldi, underlined that ALIS continues to grow and expand to the entire mobility supply chain sustainable use of goods and people: this, he noted, is This is evidenced, for example, by the "important entries into the board of directors of Franzese Trasporti, specialized in the trade in petroleum products for automotive use and combustion, Nur International, a reference point for the public and in the areas of circular economy and sustainability, and Visentini Trasporti Fluviomarittimo, a historic company in the sector maritime and shipowning. We also welcome - he added Grimaldi - to numerous other entries, including Edenred, and as partners fees to the Lombardy Foundation for the Environment, a body with a moral and scientific bodies concerned with the care of the environment, and VoiceBookRadio, the only Italian web radio that works, together with professionals in the sector, directly with young students. It is It is very important for us - he explained - to strengthen the tools of communication at the service of our members and the entire sector, in order to spread the culture of transport and logistics in that we strongly believe in, and that is why today we have also presented the new and rich schedule of ALIS Channel as follows: such as the upcoming initiatives by ALIS Magazine».

At the meeting of the Governing Council, The first 2022 Sustainability Report of ALIS "which," Grimaldi pointed out, "was carried out with the support of the by our board member Grant Thornton, is a novelty in the associative landscape and demonstrates once again, with data and certified elements, the strong commitment that all our The association and all the associated realities promote comparisons of ESG criteria'. It has also been established the new Commission "Digitalisation and Technologies for sustainable transport and logistics" by entrusting its presidency to Vodafone.

Announcing that during the meeting, the following were addressed: current issues related to the logistics sector and is Great satisfaction with the announcement of the new incentive "Sea Modal Shift" which, in continuity with the Marebonus, encourages maritime intermodality from 2022 to 2026 and for the publication in the "Official Journal" of the new Ferrobonus regulation for the years from 2023 to 2026, Grimaldi specified that "on the other hand, however, We continue to be deeply concerned about the entry into force of the in 2024 of the EU ETS taxation system, which could determine a risk of modal backshift and, above all, a distortion of modal competition, as it is applied only to the maritime mode, but also a market distortion at a geographical level, since non-European countries or areas very close to the Euro-Mediterranean area, such as England, Turkey or Maghreb, they will have to pay half of our taxation and will therefore be able to have significant economic benefits from the import and export trades. On the subject of ETS - Guido recalled Grimaldi - ALIS has long expressed its contrary opinion, calling for at least an exemption from such taxation for Motorways of the Sea and island cabotage, and we are pleased that today there is a unanimous position on the part of all the associations and operators in the sector. We would also like to remind you that it is a Regional tax that would affect only 7.5% of emissions maritime transport systems, thus not allowing for the achieve total decarbonisation as it excludes 92.5% of global emissions. I therefore consider it desirable, as proposed, by the President of the International Chamber of Shipping Emanuele Grimaldi, that a global fund be created to feed itself through a fee on all emissions produced worldwide thus creating a research and development fund "Fund & Reward" from which you can then draw the resources for the development of new technologies, but above all for new fuels which will be increasingly expensive and to reward shipowners who have committed to and invested in new technologies first."

These and other topics will be the focus of the next event "ALIS General Assembly and States General of Transport and of Logistics" which will take place on 14 and 15 November at the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome. 'In addition - concluded Grimaldi - I thank the president of Veronafiere, Federico Bricolo, for participating today and announcing at the our advice that we are ready for an extraordinary third edition of our trade fair event "LET EXPO - Logistics Eco Transport", which will also be held in Verona from 12 to 15 March 2024'.