The Italian plan for logistics presented

Creation date: 11 February 2011

The Secretary for Infrastructure and Transportation and President of the general Council for automotive and logistics, Bartolomeo Giachino, recently presented in Rome the new National Plan of Logistics.  "We believe that the improvement of logistics, from ports to freight village, from the urban distribution of goods to shorter waiting time for loading and unloading, together with a more convincing use of forms of comodality, will allow us to attract new volumes of traffic that today choose the efficiency of logistics organization in Northern Europe and help our country to grow 0.3 to 0.5 points of GDP a year."   The plan  was revised in the light of the great changes resulting from the economic crisis and the new world economic balance. The plan aims to reduce the logistics cost inefficiency of 10 points a year by 2011 (equivalent to EUR 4 billion). The plan draws attention to Intelligent Transport System (ITS) as fundamental instruments in the management of the supply chain.