Italiano
With Alis, logistics and transport change for the better
More than 1,300 member companies, over 140,500 workforce units, a vehicle fleet of over 103,000 vehicles, over 140,000 annual maritime connections and more than 120 lines of motorways of the sea. Guido Grimaldi, chairman of Alis (Logistic Association of Sustainable Intermodality), tells the numbers and news of the network that is transforming and improving logistics and transport, also with an eye to the environment and the reduction of harmful gas emissions.
“Alis – says Grimaldi – is the association that has identified the right path and traced a precise route to grow the country and companies. We have given a voice to Italian entrepreneurship and, with the challenge of intermodality, networking with companies, with the best energy, with good practices, we have created 1,500 jobs in a year. As a businessman, as a young southern entrepreneur I am proud of the results, of the collaboration with the universities and the ITS, of the concrete answers given. And we will give more, because another 1,000 workers will still be needed”.
Today Alis is considered the reference association for logistics, transport and sustainable mobility. “But logistics and sustainable transport – adds Grimaldi – include a series of technologies and activities aimed at reducing the environmental impact of the various links in the chain, improving service quality at more competitive costs. A year and a half ago, we committed to promoting the development of a sustainable transport logistics system, which has already grown by 13% in 2017. Here are the results: reduced CO2 emissions of almost 1 million tons and 1,300,000 trucks less driving on the road, equal to 35 million tons of goods transported on the entire motorway network”.
The Alis project started on the initiative of about forty companies among the most important in Italy in the maritime, railway, terminal and logistics sectors. Prominent names such as Grimaldi Euromed, Auta Marocchi, Arcese, Savona Terminal Cars, Kortimed, Intermodal, Nicolosi, Transitalia and Logistica Mediterranea. Many other companies and port authorities – Italian and foreign – have joined in during the work, among which: Consortium Zai-Interporto of Verona, one of the most important logistics in Europe of combined transport, the interports of Parma, Vado Ligure, Toscano Amerigo Vespucci and Bologna. And again: the port system of the central northern Tyrrhenian Sea (Civitavecchia, Fiumicino and Gaeta), Centrale (Naples, Salerno and Castellammare di Stabia), the Western Sicily Sea (Palermo, Trapani, Porto Empedocle and Termini Imerese), Northern Adriatic Sea ( Venice and Chioggia), Ionian Sea (Taranto) and Messina Authority. Among the foreign associates: Rail Cargo, company of the Austrian railway group ÖBB, Port Authority of Barcelona and Valencia.
Recently, in order to try to further expand its network, Alis has partnered with the Iru (worldwide association of road haulage companies), and has been working internationally to implement the use of electronic CRM. “With our service company Alis Service, we are the only promoters in Italy of this technology that simplifies the business activities of entrepreneurs for rapid bureaucracy,” explains Chairman Guido Grimaldi. In the field of digitalization, Alis has finally created an app that “will revolutionize the way of making associations – concludes Grimaldi – offering an information service on all the most important events in the field of logistics at national and international level: this platform will then help operators to interconnect and stakeholders who will benefit from a wide range of associative services “.
