The Northern Italy waterway system towards the Adriatic corridor Seminar Inland navigation: Tools and ideas to cooperate across Europe, Projects, partnerships and funding programmes Bruxelles, Tuesday 13 May, 2008 ALOT – Agency of East Lombardy for Transports and Logsitcs Province of Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona, Mantova Guido Piccoli - [email protected]The four Provinces Surface Municipalities Inhabitants Brescia: 4.784 km2 206 1.200.000 Bergamo: 2.722 km2 244 1.000.000 Mantova: 2.339 km2 70 400.000 Cremona: 1.771 km2 115 350.000
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The Northern Italy waterway systemtowards the Adriatic corridor
SeminarInland navigation: Tools and ideas to cooperate across Europe, Projects, partnerships and funding programmes
Bruxelles, Tuesday 13 May, 2008
ALOT – Agency of East Lombardy for Transports and LogsitcsProvince of Brescia, Bergamo, Cremona, Mantova
Other logistic and rail terminals and ports, existing and planned
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• Included between 2 corridors
• Relevant sector of transport and logistics (22% of Lombardy Company)
• High level of development of intermodality (8% of total Lombardy movements)
• High level of fragmentation of freight transport offer
• Number of industrials clusters
• The most significant area for the internal waterway transport
Local context
Local context
2% of terrestrialintermodal operationsin Italy
8% of terrestrialintermodal operationsin Lombardy
INTERMODAL RELATIONS IN THE
EASTERN LOMBARDY LOGISTIC SYSTEM
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Local context
24% of total workforce employed in road transport and logisticsfirms in Lombardy
EASTERN LOMBARDY ECONOMICAL CONTEXT
22% of all road transport and logistics firms in Lombardy
3% of total firms and workforce employed in road transport and logistics in Italy
90,5% of road transport firms with less than 5 persons employed
SOME FACTS
Background – barriers to the development of intermodality
Need for promotion and a more efficient use of rail, intermodal and inland waterways transport nodes
Existence of barriers for intermodal transport compared with road transport: cost and quality factors
Lack of knowledge of rail and inland waterways transport opportunities
Fragmentation of transport firms structure
SMEs and transport operators performing road transport in presence of intermodal compatible goods
Intermodal operators focusing on great volume customers
Lack of information: competence centres, management and promotion agencies, modal choice tools (software)
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Decision makersIdentification of decision makers as:
Actors able to affect modal choiceActors able to impose quality requirements and/or influence price
competition
Shippers considering intermodal as opportunity for flows/products
Forwarding companies, or large transport operators, facing intermodal as a strategic choice;
Deep sea shipping lines, influencing the inland leg mode
Decision makers RESULTS OF IQ PROJECT SURVEY (1998)
Intermodal transport used in supply chains where HIGH VOLUMES are transported over HIGH DISTANCES
FOOD and BUILDING MATERIAL are less often users of intermodal transport, with some significant potentiality for BEVERAGE.
MACHINERY, GENERAL CARGO and CHEMICAL are sectors for which intermodal transport is most used
COST of transport as the most relevant and sensitive criterion for the modal choice“Cost oriented” companies as the most regular users of intermodal Negative correlation observed between transport quality requirements and utilization of intermodal
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Decision makers• Lobbying for fund in order to realize new terminal, rail link, inland waterway• Promotion of intermodal opportunities on local level• Understand how is the territory in terms of transport and logistics• Training specialized on freight transport and logistics• Concrete – practical project – not “an other research centre…”
The mission:Promotion of intermodal transport (rail-road and IWW) and implementation of incentives for its use;Develop a public-private partnership (PPP) in the proposition and implementation of local policies in transport and logistics;Create inter-provincial initiatives for territorial programming and planning, and for logistics infrastructure engineering;Support and disseminate local logistics best practices, in order to create a diffused “logistics culture” within the local industrial systemLink between public and private sectors for the development of territorial
initiatives addressed to the sustainable transport
Competence centre
(Network “Open ENLOCC”)
Intermodal transport promotion initiatives
European experiences
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European experiencesFigure 1: Best practices and functions of similar initiatives
• Promotion and logistic competence
• Infrastructure management
• Development of transport services
• Promotion and logistic competence
• Development of transport services
• Promotion and logistic competence
• Development of transport services
• Promotion and logistic competence
• Infrastructure management
• Infrastructural development • Promotion and logistic competence
• Intermodal Transport Promotion Centre Bremen (planned) (DE)
• Eurift (DE)
• DATAR (FR)
• IFN (FR) • HIDC (NL)
• BRC (IT-AUT) Local
agencyJoint
ventures
Public agencies
SSS Promotion Centres
LCCs
Inland Waterways Promotion Centres
Intermodal Promotion Centres
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The pyramid of Activities
4. Promotion and Logistics Competence- Knowledge base creation- web platform- call center- Experts reference network- Supply-demand matching- Territorial marketing- Training- Participation in European network
1. Infrastructure management
2. Infrastructural development- territorial programming and planning- financial sources seeking- engineering- Interface with private operators3. Service development- Innovative transport services- economical feasibility of transport services- consultancy to partners
Increasingcom
plexity
Potential partnerThe Agency will not substitute or compete versus private enterprises; its fundamental roles will be:
Acting as PPP promotion actor;Fostering activities which do not show financial self-sustainability, at least in the start-up phase, because they imply a too high level of investment or risk.
It is then sensible that all major players, having a direct or indirect involvement in freight transport and logistics, are Agency’s partners. Thus the institutional set-up and the business model have been designed with the aim to minimise the risks and in order to guarantee an entrepreneurial approach in the managementof the Agency.
Target partners can be listed as follows:Institutions and local Authorities: Provinces, Region, Other local Authorities and their spin-off companies Infrastructure managers: Logistic platforms and intermodal terminals, Conventional rail transport terminals, Air freight terminals, IWW operators, Motorway and railway, infrastructure managersLogistics and freight transport operators:: Rail freight customers, Intermodal transport operators and MTOs, Forwarders and logistics operators, Road hauliersTrade Associations and clustersBig manufacturers (“shippers”)
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StructureConsortia company: need for a stable shareholder panel = need for a stable risk capitalMix of institutional and commercial services: need for decreasing necessity of loss recovery by shareholders:
Institutional: request from share holders based on Framework Contracts and Service Contracts
Commercial: revenue from the market
Activities plan
Institutional activities, performed under Framework Contracts and Service Contracts between public partners and the Agency, and other contractual agreements with private partners;Commercial activities:
Role achievement and territorial marketing;
PPP coordination and institutional relations: mainly related to programming and transport service development functions, they include all “conservative” activities, aimed at developing PPP and permanent concentration round tables;
Territorial knowledge base creation: actions with the aim to develop the knowledge base of logistics in the area, through the creation of databases of various aspects of logistics and freight transport.
Research and consultancy: the category is made of commercial activities only, apart from the necessary process of Agency’s personnel training for achieving the skill necessary for managing the participation to co-financed (European and national) projects;
Training
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Shareholders contribution decreasing
Break-even targeted
Business plan
Forecasted activities for the first year:Web site creationBrochures and dissemination materialParticipation in 1 sectorial exhibitionParticipation in “Forum PA”Creation of “Road transport” round tableCreation of the task force “International markets”Creation of "IWW" round tableRecurrent meetings and role achievement at RFIRecurrent meetings and role achievement at Lombardy RegionDevelopment of freight O/D matrix of East Lombardy (survey
start)Map of outsourcing (survey by interviews)Study on safety of road freight transport in East LombardySurvey on needs of professional figures for transport and
logistics Training of personnel on co-financed projects administration
Role achievement and territorial marketing
PPP coordination and institutional relations
Territorial knowledge base creation
Research and consultancy
Activities plan schedule
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GRAZIEALOTAgenzia della Lombardia Orientale per i Trasporti e la Logistica ScarlBy Province of Brescia – Transport DepartmentVia Milano, 13I-25126 Brescia - Italy
