GILBERTO GALLONIPRESIDENT OF EUROPLATFORMS

The European Association of freight villages

“Best practices in Europe:

the example of freight villages”

Thessaloniki, November 2006

• 60 Freight Villages

• 10 Countries Italy–Spain–Germany–Denmark–Portugal–Luxembourg–Greece–

France–Hungary-Ukraine

•2.400 Transport operators

FIGURESFIGURES

THE MAPTHE MAP

DEFINITIONDEFINITION

A freight villagefreight village is a defined area within which all activities relating to transport, logistic and distribution of goods, both for national and International transit are carried out by various operators.A freight village must also be equipped with all the public facilities to carry out the above mentioned operations. In order to encourage intermodal transport for the handling of goods, a freight village must preferably be served by a multiplicity of transport modes (road, rail, deep sea, inland waterway, air).

FREIGHT VILLAGE

LOCAL AUTHORITIESPOLICY

INFRASTRUCTURES LOCATION

Public-Private PartnershipPublic-Private Partnership Public Authorities support for:

environmental policy

policies on economicand territorial development

synergies with ports/rail infrastructures (multi-modality)

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3

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ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTUREORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE

CATCHEMENT AREACATCHEMENT AREA

Town

Road ConnectionsMaritime Connections

Rail ConnectionsIndustrial Districts

THE ROLE OF FREIGHT VILLAGES THE ROLE OF FREIGHT VILLAGES

1.Offer alternative transport solutions more efficient and complete

2.Move part of the freight transport from road to other modes of transport (intermodality/multimodalityintermodality/multimodality)

3.Manage the exponential increase of freight transport in the optimal way

The case of The case of Bologna Freight VillageBologna Freight Village

Moving heavy traffic from residential areas to the freight village

1985

1990

Congestion

First transport operators (60.000 smq)

Specialized and dedicated logistics area

Specialized and dedicated logistics area

Post-effects• More productivity ton/sqm (+30%)

• More competition among transport and logistics

companies

• More service quality

• Less personnel (-30%)

More intermodality

1.Handling operations

2.Shunting operations

3.Intermodal terminal mangement on behalf

of RFI (Trenitalia)

New rail connections

1.Sinergy between maritime port and freight

village: Bologna-Ravenna rail service

connection

2.Gravel trains

Figures 2005

1. Total freight transport2. Intermodal trains

3. Wagons4. Transport and logistics

companies 5. Increase of logistics

demand

2000 2005

4.510.000 tonn3.561.639 tonn

132/month 196/month

29.102 43.212

78 100

150.000 covered sqm

300.000 covered sqm sqm

The case of The case of Freight Village Port of NürnbergFreight Village Port of Nürnberg

Location

Freight Village Port of Nürnberg

central geographical location in Europe main european seaports in a radius of 700km Intercept point of the trans-european networks (Corridor No. 1, 18, 22) central distribution point in South Germany (27 million people live within a 200 km radius)

Location advantages

Freight Village Port of Nürnberg

TEN-Corridor No. 1:-Cooperation with Quadrante Europa / Verona (Berlin – Palermo)-Developing of Container "Hinterland"-Traffic with Adria-Ports (Trieste, Venezia)

TEN-Corridor No. 18:-Market research for developing combined services by barge along Danube

TEN-Corridor No. 22:-Developing combined services (trailer, swap-bodies) by rail (Central Germany – South Europe and Brasov/Romania)

Freight Village Port of Nürnberg

Current projects along TEN-Corridors

The case of BarcelonaThe case of BarcelonaZAL – Zona d‘activitats logistiquesZAL – Zona d‘activitats logistiques

Location

Barcelona, the logistics platform for the South of Europe, the Mediterranean and Oriente Medio

Madrid

Marseilla

Amsterdam

Paris Frankfurt

Lyon

Brussels

Munich

Milan

Ideal for disfribution into Europe

Toulouse

Zaragoza Barcelona

TangerCasablanca

Llobregat river

ZALBARCELONA townFF

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Terminal Muelle Prat

BARCELONA AIRPORT

HIGHWAYS

PORT OF BARCELONA

•BY SEA - Direct access to port facilities.•BY ROAD - Connection via the urban road system with the long-distance routes•BY RAIL - Direct connection to the Iberian-gauge rail system and with the planned European-gauge line•BY AIR - Direct access by highway to Barcelona airport,

Connections - multimodality

FLEXIBLE & FUNTIONAL STRUCTURE

TURNKEY PROJECTS FOR SINGLE USERS

MULTI-USER WAREHOUSES FOR RENT IN MODULES WITH INTEGRAL OFFICES

Quality Real Estate Offer

Service Quality

MODULAR OFFICES PARKING AND ARCHIVES MEETING AND TRAINING CENTER AUDITORIUM

GREEN SPACES AND TERRACES

CHILD-CARE CENTER

COMMERCIAL AREA WITH SERVICES

SECURITY & MAITENANCE

IT COMMUNICATIONS

SERVICE CENTER CENTRAL SERVICES AREA

AND ALSO…

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