TRIESTE – GTA is born, a new operating company set to become one of the leading players in port logistics for finished vehicles in Italy. The company, the result of cooperation between the Arcese, Conti and Cosulich families, aims to create an integrated national system for Finished Vehicle Logistics (FVL), networking the country’s main port platforms, including Ravenna.
In the new structure, Ravenna itself takes on a central role, included together with Livorno, Vado Ligure, Civitavecchia and Gioia Tauro among the main entry platforms that GTA intends to offer to international car manufacturers, with particular attention to Chinese and Asian brands that are reorganising their flows towards the European market.
The strategy is based on the creation of an integrated system capable of connecting ports, logistics compounds, rail transport and final distribution. This also includes the strengthening of cooperation with Automar, one of Italy’s main operators in the sector. The agreement, launched in 2025, had already allowed the SAIC group’s MG brand to use the Civitavecchia terminal as a logistics hub. The relationship is now expanding with the new rail connection between Gioia Tauro and Il Faldo.
The objective is to ease pressure on the ports of Civitavecchia, Livorno and Vado Ligure, offering traffic from the Far East a competitive alternative through Gioia Tauro and an intermodal network capable of rapidly transferring vehicles to Northern Italy, also thanks to cooperation with MIR.
XCA currently operates with a fleet of around 50 owned car transporters and already has a presence in several strategic nodes of Italian automotive logistics, including Ravenna. With GTA, the group now aims to bring together infrastructure, expertise and multimodal connections to respond to growing demand from international manufacturers.
«The market is changing rapidly and Asian manufacturers are asking for integrated, flexible and reliable solutions, capable of accompanying each vehicle from the port to the distribution network», said Marco Donati, general manager of COSCOS, a joint venture of the Fratelli Cosulich Group.
For Augusto Cosulich, chairman of the Fratelli Cosulich Group, the initiative stems from the desire to build «a new industrial system capable of providing concrete answers to major emerging international automotive players», leveraging port infrastructure, operational expertise and cooperation between long-established operators in the sector.
