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The Italian intermodal network is one of the most important in Europe for the quality and quantity of its facilities with 25 freight villages strategically located along the main traffic lines that cross Italy with branches to all Europe and other Mediterranean countries.
Italy has been one of the first European countries to built an intermodal logistics system with investments of more than 500 million € in the period 1990-2006 funded by the central Government, local Administrations and private operators.
A study conducted by a German agency in 2010 showed the high efficiency of these structures, as 7 of them are classified in the Top 20 of European logistic infrastructures, with Verona ranking first.
Inside Italian freight villages there are more than 1.000 transport and logistics companies, 18.000 direct workers and other 20.600 people who work in activities linked to logistics sector.

Thanks to the services they offer, freight villages are real territorial development poles. As logistics interchange centres and value added services suppliers, they play the role of hub for complex transport cycles in transport networks always more complex and articulated. Moreover, multimodal combined transport is the most efficient and effective instrument to reduce the increasing transport demand impacts and to rebalance transport modes for the benefit of those less intrusive such as “all-road” transport.

Italian freight villages

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