UIRR, the association representing the transport segment combined in Europe, has published its 2023 annual report on the state of the sector, which last year moved 4.55 million intermodal shipments with a decrease of -10.6% on the previous year ( of 17 May 2024), in which it details the state of transport intermodal systems for each nation. With regard to Italy, the report indicates that in 2023, intermodal shipments from domestic terminals were 631 thousand, with a decrease of -13.1% on 2022, while intermodal shipments arrived in Italy state 705 thousand (-8.8%). The provision of intermodal services in terms of shipments-kilometer and ton-kilometers are amounted to 584 million SPEND-km (-13.2%) and 14.0 million respectively billion tonne-km (-7.6%) for shipments from Italy and 635 billion tonne-km million SPED-km (-8.8%) and 16.3 billion tonne-km (-8.5%) for the incoming shipments.

As for the main intermodal traffic flows and entering Italy, in 2023 the largest volume in was the one against Germany which was equal to 318 thousand shipments (-17.6%) for a service of 6.8 billion tonn-km (-7.7%) followed by 119 thousand shipments to Belgium (-10.7%) for a total of 3.0 billion tonne-km (-12.8%), from those with the Netherlands equal to 78 thousand shipments (+8.4%) for 2.2 billion tonn-km (+5.7%), from those with Austria amounting to 32 thousand shipments (-5.0%) for 402 million tonn-km (+58.6%), from 28 thousand shipments with Hungary (+10.0%) for 281 million tonne-km (+8.8%), from those with France equal to 24 thousand shipments (-37.4%) for 465 million tonne-km (-38.1%), from the 17 thousand shipments with the Luxembourg (+18.3%) for 387 million tonne-km (+23.1%) and over 4 thousand shipments with Switzerland (-19.3%) for 34 million tonn-km (-18.9%).

Last year the most significant volume of shipments intermodal trains arriving in Italy were those coming from the Germany equal to 348 thousand consignments (-12.0%) for 7.6 billion tonn-km (-12.9%), followed by 137 thousand shipments from Belgium (-7.5%) for 3.9 billion tonne-km (-7.6%), from those from the Netherlands equal to 95 thousand shipments (+6.4%) for 2.5 billion tonne-km (+4.3%), from those from Austria equal to 36 thousand shipments (+1.8%) for 440 million tonn-km (+67.7%), from those from Hungary amounting to 28 thousand shipments (+4.6%) for 318 million tonn-km (+6.5%), from 24 thousand shipments France (-38.4%) for 574 million tonne-km (-36.9%), those from Luxembourg equal to 18 thousand shipments (+24.4%) for 452 million tonne-km (+31.0%) and from the more than 4 thousand shipments from the Sweden (+11.0%) for 154 million tonne-km (-20.8%).