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Initiative of Verallia and SMET for the transport of goods with railway a marine intermodal system/
Alimentary bottles and containers in glass on board of the Freeways of the Sea or the railway service Verona-Bari
June 26, 2019
Verallia, first European producer and third world-wide producer of packaging feeding in glass, has started a new project of environmental sustainability and logistic efficiency in collaboration with logistic group intermodal SMET through the realization of an intermodal system that arranges the marine transport with that railway one. The initiative previews that by this month all flows of transport of the goods produced from Verallia - alimentary bottles and containers in glass - are managed with mostly intermodal modality on average and long distance. Verallia and SMET have emphasized that this carried out intermodal will allow with the company to reduce of 70% the emissions of co2 deriving from the flow of transport of its goods, having obtained meanwhile a remarkable logistic efficientamento.
The project is centralized on main the guiding north-south operated from group SMET on behalf of Verallia with the aid of the marine transport, and in particular with the net of Freeways of the Sea of Grimaldi Lines (marine lines Genoa-Salerno and Venice-Bari), to which the railway service Verona-Bari used from Verallia and supplied from the intermodal operators N.O.I and Mercitalia comes abreast in alternative or combination.
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