TRIESTE – Steering transport choices and encouraging greater use of intermodality. «Loading goods at our interporti, using the rail sidings already in place within the various local Economic Development Consortia, thereby reducing the share carried by road, especially for longer-distance destinations».
This is how, yesterday at the Pordenone interporto, Cristina Amirante, the Regional Councillor for Infrastructure and Territory, outlined the executive’s objectives, as it seeks to bring demand and supply together. Precisely for this reason, the Region is already considering (a topic already raised within the Logistics Steering Committee) a dedicated funding line: a sort of “rail bonus” for companies operating in the area that choose regional interporti to move their goods by rail instead of by road.
Amirante was at the Pordenone interporto to take part in the conference “Pordenone, a watershed between Venice and Trieste” organised by Adriaports.
«A very important opportunity for discussion to focus on the role of the Pordenone interporto, not only within the regional logistics platform made up of ports, interporti and connecting infrastructure, but in particular on linking Pordenone’s and the Region’s manufacturing base with the local logistics system, also imagining new forms of incentives for local companies», the councillor explained.
The debate—which also involved Sergio Bolzonello, CEO of Interporto Pordenone, and Stefano Visintin, president of Confetra Fvg—put at the centre issues such as motorways of the sea, freight flows between the Tyrrhenian and the Adriatic, and the strategic role of interporti in leveraging opportunities for the regional manufacturing system.
«We obviously work a lot — Amirante underlined — with goods and operators crossing our Region, which sits at the centre of several traffic flows, but we need to focus more on the output of the regional productive fabric, which does not always make full use of the capacity of Friuli Venezia Giulia’s logistics platform».
