Ferrovie dello Stato, Poste Italiane, Mercitalia Logistics and sennder have signed a letter of intent to develop a sustainable and digitalised logistics, an agreement that has been signed today by Luigi Ferraris, CEO of the FS Group, Matteo Del Fante, CEO of Poste Sabrina De Filippis, CEO of Mercitalia Logistics, leader of the FS Italiane Group's Logistics Hub, and David Nothacker, CEO and co-founder of sennder, German company active in the digitalization of freight transport on road.

The collaboration aims to offer Italian companies innovative and sustainable intermodal logistics solutions, which combine train services with first-to-last services road mile across Europe, with a transport experience highly computerized able to optimize costs, flows, distances traveled and emissions. The agreement provides, among other things, for the Maximum exploitation of the network's potential of the FS Group's Logistics Hub, combining the First and last mile on road offered by Sennder with green vehicles, using low-emission fuels such as HVO and engines Electric.

The rapprochement of the two FS and sennder groups was stimulated by Poste Italiane, which has been collaborating with the company since 2019 entrusting him with all complete road transport in Italy. Every year, Mercitalia and sennder transport more than 53 million tonnes of goods, of which 41 million tonnes were transported by 100 thousand trains managed by Mercitalia and 12 million tons transported with one million truck loads on the road network Operated by Sennder.

The letter of intent provides for future evaluation, on the basis of the a technical and economic feasibility study, the possibility of setting up a newco with the creation of a European "Multimodal Operator" able to offer the Logistics market Intermodal transport solutions innovative and sustainable ferro-rubber.

"Europe's leading digital freight forwarder is the Polo leader of the FS Group's Logistics - explained Sabrina De Filippis - join forces for an innovative project that Optimize import/export transport flows with less impact environmental. In fact, the collaboration will allow a more efficient and sustainable logistics thanks to technologies monitoring and managing shipping loads in a timely manner. reducing CO2 emissions."

"After our joint venture with Poste Italiane, which Created the leading digital road freight operator in Italy - underlined David Nothacker - we now have the opportunity to collaborate with one of the leading companies logistics to make the most of intermodal transport, thus accelerating our mission to reduce CO2 emissions from transport, which account for a portion of the of total emissions in Europe. Technologies and AI-powered algorithms developed by Sennder support not only the digitalisation of operations intermodal technologies, but also the increase in efficiency through the reduction of empty kilometres'.