The Unione Interporti Riuniti (UIR) has proposed a round table to involve the institutions and territories on which the 26 Italian freight terminals insist in order to provide elements for a comparison of current incentive models and implementations possible at state and regional level, with the aim of to give a boost to intermodal transport in Italy which is experiencing a phase of difficulty.

The proposal, formulated during the Letexpo fair held on last week in Verona, plans to confer at the permanent table the task of building a project funding program intermodal hubs identified as logistics hubs in the area, funding not for individual activities but to complex projects that involve both logistical nodes together (ports, freight villages, railways) and operators in the sector, providing for the possibility of incentivising the territorial intermodal as a whole: ferrobonus, logistics nodes (ports and freight terminals), the port-freight terminals connection, the port-rail connection. For UIR, the activation of thus developed and in compliance with the Community guidelines and legislation on aid to State, would result in a rational use of the available funds for the development of intermodality (both state and as well as in the creation of a more efficient.

Specifying that there are already virtuous experiences in this sense, UIR explained that we could start from the ferrobonus up to more articulated forms of funding such as the one activated by the Friuli Venezia Region Giulia, where since 2004 contributions have been granted that are made structural by Regional Law 9/2022 and aimed at Compensate for the various external and infrastructure usage costs between road and rail on the as well as in the reduction of extra costs deriving from the presence of structural penalties of the system regional railway and its connections with the operational areas logistics and port nodes and industrial companies in the region.