Polo Logistica and Eastern Ligurian Sea Port Authority sign first protocol agreement for digital integration

• between the Port System Authority's technological systems and the Hub's companies
• with the aim of increasing the quality and efficiency of services offered

 

La Spezia, 28 February 2024 - The FS Group's Logistics Hub and the Eastern Ligurian Sea Port System Authority have signed the first protocol agreement to promote digital integration between the AdSP's Port Community System and the technological systems of the Hub's companies. The agreement was signed by the CEO of Mercitalia Logistics Sabrina De Filippis and the President of the Eastern Ligurian Sea Port System Authority Mario Sommariva.

 

The agreement will allow the initiation of an electronic exchange of data relating to the main processes dedicated to rail transport services that originate or arrive in the ports under the AdSP's jurisdiction, starting from La Spezia, continuing to the back port of Santo Stefano Magra and then extending to the port of Marina di Carrara. The communication between the information and digital systems of the two entities will allow better planning and management of railway operations by the various actors involved in the supply chain, speeding up both operational processes, such as maneuvers or loading and unloading operations, and commercial processes dedicated to shipments, such as waybills. All this to the advantage of greater competitiveness of rail and intermodal transport to/from the port of La Spezia.

 

A port where every year the Logistics Hub, on one hand, handles with Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal, together with LSSR company, all incoming and outgoing rail traffic, while on the other, has relations through Mercitalia Rail's daily connections. Not to mention the back port of Santo Stefano Magra, whose terminal represents the most important element of synergy and development between Mercitalia Logistics and the Eastern Ligurian Sea AdSP. All this traffic today involves the management of information and documents in the traditional way, and the integration of digital systems will allow enormous savings on procedures and improve the overall quality of services.

 

The protocol is part of a systemic vision that considers port entities as fundamental hubs for intermodality, and is part of a broader program that the Logistics Hub is promoting with all port and interport entities. The objective is to foster, through innovative solutions, maximum collaboration and connection between the different segments of transport, for the benefit of an important improvement in the efficiency of processes and services offered, the only key to generating value for industry and territories. "The FS Group's Logistics Hub is carrying out an important development plan for the logistics sector, paying particular attention to intermodal and technological connections and development - stated Sabrina De Filippis, CEO of Mercitalia Logistics. - Today's signing represents an important step for Mercitalia in terms of modal integration and represents a first phase of a digital integration path also with other actors, extending the perimeter to new processes". "This protocol confirms that the Eastern Ligurian Sea Port System Authority makes digitalization at the service of logistics efficiency and intermodality one of its main strengths and competitiveness. The ports of La Spezia and Marina di Carrara, together with the back port of Santo Stefano Magra - stated Mario Sommariva, president of the Eastern Ligurian Sea AdSP – represent excellence in the panorama of ports with an intermodal vocation in Italy.

 

The signing of the protocol with the Logistics Hub represents a further added value in the relations between AdSP and the FS Group and confirms the credibility of the project for the digitalization of railway services through the Port Community System of the port of La Spezia" The standard introduced in the logistics-port sector can be immediately replicated also in the main ports that have adopted their own Port Community System. The Agreement falls within the scope of initiatives that contribute to the broader activity promoted by the Italian Government for the creation of the National Logistics Platform (PLN), coordinated by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport through the in-house company RAM, with the aim of digitalizing the Logistics sector.