The elective assembly of Confetra Nord Est, held in Verona at the AVAS headquarters at Interporto Quadrante Europa, has renewed its unanimously confirming Paolo Salvaro to the presidency, while Manuel Scortegagna has been appointed vice-president. Scortegagna, managing director of Scortrans, is also national vice-president of Fedespedi with specific responsibility for land transport.

On the occasion of the assembly, Salvaro recalled that the North Est is one of Italy's main production areas, a a territory that exported goods worth 81.2 billion euros in 2022 equal to about 46% of the total wealth produced in the region. The president of Confetra Nord Est underlined that the logistics and transport are a key element in maintaining and improve this performance and that ports and freight terminals are doing their part but there are many issues to be addressed: the accessibility of the port of Venice, the transit of the crossings the enhancement of intermodality, the Simplified Logistics of the port of Venice and Rovigo, are - He specified - just some of the issues that we will follow closely.

Pointing out that "never before has logistics and transport been so important are important for the resilience and development of the economy', Scortegagna pointed out that it is necessary to "push on the digitalization that dematerializes many procedures, and which provides very useful data for the efficient and sustainable management of both our businesses and our logistics chains as a whole. Today," he continued, Scortegagna - logistics professionals are an irreplaceable partner of manufacturing companies, supports them in the complex and sometimes difficult choices to move raw materials and finished products between continents. International tensions in recent years have highlighted how fragile these links can be. We we must contribute to making our country's logistics a reliable, safe and sustainable service for our economy, improving our already excellent performance but prodding institutional decision-makers in order to ensure that the removed and overcome all those infrastructural inefficiencies, management and operational issues, which often weigh down our system'.