Promote the intermodal transport in Italy and towards Europe. This is what the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Rome between Italian FS Group, represented by the CEO, Luigi Ferraris, and by the CEO of Mercitalia Logistics, Gianpiero Strisciuglio and the Hupac group, present with Michail Stahlhut, CEO of Hupac SA, in the presence of Hupac SA President Hans Jörg Bertschi and Bernhard Kunz, member of the Group's Board of Directors.
“With the signing of this MoU – he declared Ferraris – we expand and strengthen our collaboration with Hupac in line with an overall strategy that aims at the development of intermodality and the objective of doubling the share of freight transport by train over distances of more than three hundred/four hundred kilometers and at the development of a increasingly sustainable and innovative logistics”.
"Together with the FS Group we wish to make an important contribution to further growth and to achieving the environmental objectives that Europe, Italy and Switzerland have set themselves", added the president of the Hupac group.
The MoU between Fs and Hupac
The document, reads a note, will serve in the first instance to verify the possibility and mutual interest in carrying out a commercial and operational partnership project aimed at the development of logistics and rail and intermodal transport solutions for goods, in particular on relations between Italy and North Eastern Europe and between South Eastern Europe towards the Balkans.
The activities, continues the note, will particularly concern i terrestrial intermodal services and the expansion of freight traffic to and from national and international ports, making use of rail and land intermodal connections. To reach in Italy the European goals and reach 30% of goods transported by rail by 2030.
A cooperation that sees, among others, ongoing projects through the Teralp company (Terminal AlpTransit), owned by Hupac and Mercitalia engaged in the creation of 3 new terminals in Italy: Milano sorting (a first module will be built by 2025, but the work will be completed by 2026), Brescia, which will be completed by 2026 and Piacenza, by 2024.
