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NUOVO PIANO GENERALE DEI TRASPORTI E DELLA LOGISTICA

Luglio 2000

Ministero
dei Lavori Pubblici
Ministero dei Trasporti
e della Navigazione
Ministero
dell'Ambiente



1. Premessa


















Italia piattaforma nel Mediterraneo













Sussidiarietà e non discriminazione








Liberalizzazione

Federalismo dei trasporti








Diminuzione dei livelli di inquinamento aumento dei livelli di sicurezza

















Efficienza dei servizi





























Ambito della produzione












Ambito del consumo





















Strumenti per l'applicazione degli indirizzi di Piano




















Le Regioni quali interlocutori essenziali








Piano come processo "dinamico"









Coordinamento con i provvedimenti normativi in corso






























Efficacia ed efficienza nei processi di privatizzazione e liberalizzazione



Nella società contemporanea i sistemi di trasporto e telecomunicazione sono tra i principali motori di un processo dinamico di globalizzazione in cui le relazioni economiche, politiche e sociali si estendono in un ambito geografico sempre più vasto.

Il grado di interdipendenza tra le aree geografiche è stato rafforzato ed incrementato dallo sviluppo delle reti di comunicazione e dal progresso tecnologico. Come effetto di tali sviluppi è aumentata la tendenza al decentramento della produzione che ha favorito la nascita di insediamenti produttivi anche a grande distanza dalle case-madri.

L'Italia, grazie alla sua posizione geografica privilegiata, si pone come naturale piattaforma nel Mediterraneo attraversata da tre grandi direttrici di collegamento mondiale: due direttrici est-ovest, la prima che va dai Balcani e dall'Europa orientale verso l'Europa occidentale e la penisola iberica, la seconda che va dall'Estremo Oriente all'Europa occidentale attraverso il canale di Suez ed il Mediterraneo, e la direttrice nord-sud che va dal nord Africa e dai Paesi del vicino e Medio Oriente verso l'Europa meridionale e centrale. In particolare, il nostro Paese è al centro del crescente sviluppo dei flussi di traffico merci e passeggeri che gravitano attorno al bacino del Mediterraneo, ed è potenzialmente in grado di offrire adeguati servizi logistici e di trasporto per il traffico di attraversamento.

Negli ultimi anni i principali provvedimenti specifici relativi alla politica dei trasporti a livello europeo si rifanno ai due principi comunitari essenziali: la sussidiarietà e la non discriminazione. La sussidiarietà assume che l'Unione Europea intervenga solo se prevalgono interessi superiori a quelli dei singoli Paesi; la non discriminazione richiede che le politiche nazionali non danneggino o favoriscano imprese specifiche in base alla loro nazionalità.

In tale ambito si inserisce il nuovo Piano Generale dei Trasporti e della Logistica che è contraddistinto da due scelte di fondo:

· la liberalizzazione del mercato dei trasporti, anche nei comparti più tradizionalmente legati a gestioni monopolistiche;

· l'articolazione delle competenze programmatorie ed amministrative su due fondamentali livelli istituzionali, quello nazionale e quello regionale, competenze tra di loro distinte e complementari, con il passaggio graduale di una loro significativa parte dallo Stato alle Regioni sulla base del principio di sussidiarietà. La semplificazione delle competenze dovrà impegnare i due livelli in una programmazione integrata delle infrastrutture con particolare riferimento al potenziamneto nelle aree meridionali e alla qualificazione di tutto il sistema

Inoltre, nel contesto attuale, all'obiettivo tradizionalmente richiesto al sistema dei trasporti di garantire il soddisfacimento dei bisogni di mobilità, è necessario affiancare almeno due ulteriori obiettivi di fondo: diminuire i livelli di inquinamento ambientale e aumentare i livelli di sicurezza del trasporto, in particolare per il settore stradale.

E' in un contesto generale così definito che sono state messe a punto le strategie ed individuati gli interventi principali del PGT al fine di disegnare le linee portanti di un progetto di sistema che, nell'ottimizzare l'utilizzo dei diversi modi di trasporto, sia anche capace di perseguire il riequilibrio territoriale allo scopo di sfruttare la risorsa offerta dal Mezzogiorno e di cogliere la grande opportunità presentata dal Mediterraneo. Le infrastrutture costituiscono non solo parte integrante dell'assetto territoriale del Paese, ma uno dei possibili motori dello sviluppo locale, a condizione che gli interventi siano concepiti non soltanto sulla base di obiettivi macroterritoriali in uno scenario nazionale ed europeo, ma anche in funzione della migliore integrazione delle reti della mobilità con le iniziative di sviluppo e di promozione dei contesti locali.

La politica degli investimenti nel comparto dei trasporti non può essere affrontata soltanto in termini di potenziamento infrastrutturale ma deve comprendere una pluralità di azioni, tutte orientate all'aumento dei livelli di efficienza del Paese. Nell'ambito del PGT si propongono soprattutto azioni mirate ad aumentare l'efficienza complessiva dell'offerta dei servizi di trasporto, in termini di qualità, di affidabilità, di sicurezza, di riduzione del costo e di nuove regole per la composizione dei conflitti.

La caratterizzazione del modello socio economico attuale in termini di crescita della categoria tempo e di ridimensionamento della categoria spazio richiede una rete di trasporto efficiente sia nelle brevi distanze che nel medio e lungo raggio, in grado di accompagnare i processi di sviluppo propri di una realtà economica avanzata.

L'intervento pubblico non deve limitarsi ad un processo di rilancio dell'offerta di trasporto, ma deve fungere da catalizzatore di risorse private finalizzate ad un riassetto funzionale del comparto tale da soddisfare le esigenze del cittadino - contribuente, dell'utente, degli operatori del settore e degli altri operatori economici.

Le tradizionali politiche di potenziamento di infrastrutture e servizi non saranno, tuttavia, sufficienti ad orientare il settore verso un assetto più moderno ed equilibrato. Occorre contemporaneamente sviluppare politiche di orientamento della domanda volte ad ottimizzare l'uso delle risorse e a diminuire gli impatti ambientali e le altre esternalità negative associate alle attuali attività di trasporto.

In tale contesto è necessario partire dalla individuazione dei riferimenti essenziali del sistema dei trasporti: gli ambiti della produzione e gli ambiti del consumo.

Questo approccio evidenzia come negli ultimi venti anni sia cambiata completamente la dimensione, la tipologia e l'ubicazione del sistema produttivo, soprattutto nell'area centrale e settentrionale del Paese. Le attività produttive sono e saranno sempre meno individuabili in modo statico rispetto a determinate allocazioni e, soprattutto, il ciclo di vita di determinate tipologie merceologiche sarà destinato a cambiare con ritmi sempre più veloci. A fronte di tali evoluzioni la rete infrastrutturale risponde ancora alla vecchia geografia industriale.

Gli "ambiti del consumo" invece vanno verso una identificazione sempre più determinata che vede concentrarsi nelle dodici principali macro aree urbane oltre il 40% dei consumi nazionali. In queste aree giocano un ruolo fondamentale le attività del terziario.

C'è un solo denominatore comune che lega i due fenomeni di produzione e consumo ed è la loro stretta dipendenza dalla rete dei trasporti, alla organizzazione logistica, alla qualità dei servizi di trasporto ed alla ottimizzazione dei processi di scambio. E' questo comune denominatore che deve diventare la occasione per esaltare gli interessi comuni anche a livello europeo annullando inutili provincialismi che producono diseconomie e falsa concorrenzialità.

La componente economica diventa quindi elemento essenziale nella costruzione del Piano per la quale si è proceduto alla definizione di un itinerario capace di condurre, attraverso la ricerca del consenso sia dei soggetti preposti alla gestione del territorio che a quelli erogatori e fornitori di servizi, alla individuazione di scelte che garantiscano coerenza strategica e che possano trovare adeguata collocazione negli strumenti attuativi disponibili.

In particolare per avere la necessaria sostanza ed incisività, gli indirizzi del Piano possono essere trasferiti in strumenti quali il DPEF, le Leggi collegate alla Finanziaria, il DPR, i Decreti legislativi, le Intese Istituzionali di Programma, gli Accordi di Programma, i Contratti di Servizio ed i Patti Territoriali.

Ogni scelta strategica deve trovare giusta ubicazione all'interno di tali strumenti e solo la contestualità e la complementarietà di questi strumenti può dare successo al lavoro di pianificazione.

Per evitare il rischio di cadere in un ormai superato dirigismo non si possono non collocare le tematiche del Piano in una visione temporale e spaziale estranea al localismo ed alla semplice soluzione del contingente. La esigenza di lungimiranza e soprattutto la coscienza di assistere ad un particolare momento di cambiamento socio economico della cultura trasportistica, ci porta ad utilizzare gli strumenti elencati in precedenza non come vincoli strutturali in cui ingessare le scelte ma come riferimenti capaci di ricordare la stretta e continua interazione fra tutte le azioni che caratterizzano il sistema dei trasporti e tra queste e i territori interessati. Le interazioni considerate non possono e non devono essere solo interne al sistema di trasporto.

L'approccio seguito deve anche servire a fornire, in modo concreto, indicazioni in relazione al processo di riforma dei vari Dicasteri al fine di poter disporre, in questo difficile e complesso comparto, di strumenti e organismi efficaci ed efficienti. Le Regioni, interlocutori essenziali e determinanti, devono considerare l'articolato quadro strategico delineato nel Piano, non come una limitazione alla loro autonomia decisionale, ma come un indispensabile e sistematico comune denominatore che riporta a logica comune gli interessi del sistema Paese.

Infine, il nuovo Piano non deve essere considerato come un documento statico, da aggiornare ritualmente ogni tre anni come previsto dalla Legge 245 del 1984, ma deve essere sempre in grado di adeguarsi alle evoluzioni della domanda di trasporto, alle evoluzioni delle varie forme di sviluppo del Paese. La natura "dinamica" del Piano consisterà pertanto in un continuo lavoro di aggiornamento e di approfondimento di alcune tematiche specifiche, in una opportuna attività di monitoraggio e di verifica delle azioni di policy proposte, al fine di garantire l'efficacia nel tempo dell'azione pianificatoria.

Le azioni proposte nel PGT si innestano nelle azioni tracciate dai provvedimenti contenuti nella normativa che Governo e Parlamento hanno emanato in questi anni nei vari comparti, suggerendo, in alcuni casi, parziali modifiche o integrazioni sulla base degli indirizzi e delle strategie necessarie per perseguire gli obiettivi del Piano. A tale proposito si richiamano le disposizioni in materia di miglioramento del livello di sicurezza dei trasporti nei vari settori e riduzione dell'inquinamento ambientale; le disposizioni in materia di lavori pubblici; il completamento della riforma del trasporto pubblico locale; i provvedimenti in materia di ripartizione delle capacità dell'infrastruttura ferroviaria, di costruzione di un mercato aperto dei servizi ferroviari; la fissazione degli standard di qualità dei servizi pubblici di trasporto; la ristrutturazione dell'autotrasporto e lo sviluppo dell'intermodalità; la regolamentazione del settore del trasporto delle merci pericolose; i provvedimenti in materia di trasporto aereo e marittimo; i provvedimenti in materia di composizione dei conflitti.

Tali azioni, che hanno, come detto, caratterizzato le politiche di Governo nel corso della presente legislatura, costituiscono il punto di riferimento, insieme alla normativa europea, peraltro in continua evoluzione, sulla cui base sono state elaborate le proposte per il riassetto del comparto contenute nel Piano.

Gli strumenti del monitoraggio forniranno le necessarie conoscenze delle attività di trasporto e dei loro effetti economici ed ambientali (ad oggi del tutto insufficienti) e consentiranno di quantificare più precisamente gli obiettivi e i risultati delle politiche messe in campo, innescando in tal modo un circuito virtuoso di accrescimento delle conoscenze e di miglioramento delle attività di programmazione.

I processi di liberalizzazione dei servizi nei trasporti sono assunti dal Piano come occasione per stimolare una presenza efficace di imprese e risorse private. I processi di privatizzazione dunque non potranno prescindere da una attenta gestione delle infrastrutture, puntuali o di rete, e da procedure di affidamento fondate sui principi e sulle norme comunitarie per la trasparenza e sull'offerta economicamente più vantaggiosa.



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Genoa
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Genoa
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Genoa
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Marseille
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Busan
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Genoa
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Barcelona
The company currently has 52 employees throughout Spain.
Port of Trieste: EU funding for two new projects
Trieste
Resources with a total value of 1.7 million euros
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Rome
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In the first eight months of 2025, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +10.6%
Gioia Tauro
2,912,943 TEUs were handled
Stena Line to buy Latvian port operator Terrabalt
Gothenburg
It handles rolling stock, bulk cargo, and general cargo traffic in the port of Liepaja.
Meyer Turku begins construction of Royal Caribbean's fourth "Icon"-class cruise ship
Miami/Turku
It will be delivered in 2027
More than one in ten maritime shipments has shortages
Washington
This is what a report by the World Shipping Council has revealed, highlighting the safety risks
Last July, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +3.8%
Ravenna
In the first seven months of 2025, growth was +5.4%
In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in Belgian ports fell by -3.2%.
Brussels
Landings down 1.3% and embarkations down 5.4%
Product tanker High Fidelity rescues 38 migrants on a drifting dinghy
Rome
Intervention in the south of the island of Crete
GES and RINA sign agreement to develop a prototype of a new hydrogen battery
Rovereto/Genoa
PSA's second phase of container terminal at Mumbai Port inaugurated
Singapore
Annual traffic capacity will increase to 4.8 million TEUs
The conference "EU ETS - Perspectives and Opportunities for Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector" will be held in Palermo.
Rome
It will be held on September 18th and 19th
Fincantieri and PGZ sign an agreement to support the modernization of the Polish Navy
Trieste
The third LSS section for Chantiers de l'Atlantique was launched in Castellammare di Stabia.
In the US, funding for wind energy development projects in ports is being cut.
Washington
Resources worth $679 million will be reallocated for port infrastructure upgrades
From January 1st, Kombiverkehr will operate the PKV intermodal terminal in the port of Duisburg.
Frankfurt am Main
It has a traffic capacity of approximately 200 thousand intermodal units per year.
Wallenius Marine and ABB form Overseas joint venture
Stockholm
The aim is to accelerate the launch of the platform of the same name for improving fleet performance.
DHL eCommerce has acquired a minority stake in Saudi Arabia's AJEX Logistics Services.
Bonn/Riyadh
The Middle Eastern company has two thousand employees
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has asked the Region to agree on the appointment of Bagalà as president of the Sardinian Port Authority.
Rome
He is currently the extraordinary commissioner of the same body
CMPort's port terminals handled record container traffic in the second quarter
Hong Kong
In the first six months of 2025 the total was 78.8 million TEUs (+4.3%)
Confitarma approves the decree on advanced training for tanker seafarers.
Rome
Applause to the General Command of the Port Authority Corps
Quarterly freight traffic in Moroccan ports increases
Tangier/Casablanca
In Tanger Med the growth was +17%
The board of directors of the Genoa-based Ente Bacini has been renewed.
Genoa
President Alessandro Arvigo and CEO Maurizio Anselmo
In the second quarter, sales of dry containers produced by CIMC fell by -33%.
Hong Kong
Reefer boats increase by 57%
The Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of the Grande Shanghai
Naples
It will be used for the transport of vehicles between East Asia and Northern Europe
Chinese automaker FAW ships components to Europe by train
Changchun
Transit time reduced to 18 days compared to 45 days for maritime transport
The ART urges to verify that the investment plan and the related amortization period are consistent with the duration of the port concessions.
Turin
Opinions regarding the concession extensions requested by the Neapolitan companies So.Te.Co. and Co.Na.Te.Co.
The assets and fleet of the Spanish Armas Trasmediterránea will be sold to Baleària and DFDS
Las Palmas/Dénia/Copenhagen
Two agreements worth €215 million and €40 million respectively have been signed.
Italian State Railways (FS), investing €70 million to install the ERTMS system.
Rome
Work has been completed on 382 Trenitalia trains, while the retrofitting of 60 locomotives from Mercitalia Rail, an FS Logistix company, is underway.
MPC Container Ships' quarterly revenue returns to growth
The second quarter of 2025 was closed with a net profit of 78.1 million dollars (+20.5%)
Plans to build two container customs areas north and south of the Suez Canal
Cairo
Fourteen of the 48 abandoned shipwrecks in Catania port have been removed.
Catania
The activity will be replicated in the port of Augusta
The Regional Administrative Court (TAR) has confirmed the validity of the tender for the new Ravano Terminal in the port of La Spezia.
La Spezia
DP World's port terminals handled record quarterly container traffic
Dubai
Revenues grew by 22.2% in the first half of 2025
In the quarter April-June the volume of rolling stock transported by Höegh Autoliners increased by +9.0%
Oslo
Sharp increase (+46.6%) of vehicles from Asia
South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering acquires Vietnam's Doosan Enerbility
Seongnam
It manages an industrial area with its own port facility
Container traffic in the port of Algeciras grew by 6.6% in July
Algeciras
In the first seven months of 2025, a decrease of -2.9% was recorded
In July, the port of Valencia handled 488,000 containers (+6.7%)
Valencia
Increase driven by growth in empty containers
Salvini has appointed Annalisa Tardino as extraordinary commissioner of the Western Sicilian Sea Port Authority.
Rome/Palermo
The President of the Sicilian Region announces the appeal against the provision
The materials dredged in the ports of La Spezia and Carrara will be used for the construction of the new breakwater in Genoa.
Genoa/La Spezia
Agreement between the two Ligurian Port System Authorities
X-Press Feeders denounces authorities' failure to acknowledge responsibility in the X-Press Pearl accident
Singapore
According to the company, the Supreme Court ruling ignores international maritime law
Cargo traffic in Russian ports remained stable in July
St. Petersburg
In the first seven months of 2025, loads decreased by -4.6%
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong decreased by -6.5% in July
Hong Kong
A decline of -3.7% was recorded in the first seven months of 2025
In July, the Port of Singapore set a new all-time record for monthly container traffic with 3.9 million TEUs.
Singapore
In terms of weight, containerized cargo decreased by -3.6%
Compensation to be paid by the Civitavecchia Port Authority in the Fincosit case has been set at €1.5 million.
Civitavecchia
Latrofa: The ruling allows the release of set-aside sums that have frozen the budget for years.
Germany's HHLA posts record quarterly revenue
Hamburg
In the second quarter, the group's port terminals handled 3.2 million containers (+7.9%)
In the first half of 2025, CK Hutchison's port terminals handled 44 million containers (+4.0%)
Hong Kong
In the quarter April-June the Wallenius Wilhelmsen fleet transported 14.8 million cubic meters of rolling stock (-0.5%)
Lysaker
Revenues down by -0.7%
In the second quarter, Montenegro's ports handled 670 thousand tons of goods (+0.6%)
Podgorica
Volumes with Italy amounted to 154 thousand tons (+53.1%)
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
Conference: "Waiting and Delays in Road Transport: Logistics in Check"
Genoa
Organized by Trasportounito, it will be held on September 26th in Genoa
The conference "EU ETS - Perspectives and Opportunities for Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector" will be held in Palermo.
Rome
It will be held on September 18th and 19th
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Korean Firms Reassess U.S. Investments After Mass Immigration Raid
(The Korea Bizwire)
Russia's infrastructure development plan aims to build 17 marine terminals by 2036
(Interfax)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
With the arrival of the first container ship, the testing of operational procedures at the Rijeka Gateway begins.
The Hague
The first commercial ship is expected on September 12th
A proposal to bring the port of Taranto back onto global container routes? Start a discussion table.
Taranto
Meeting on the status of freight traffic
Port of Ancona: Tender for demolition of fire-damaged Tubimar warehouses
Ancona
The expected duration of the works is four and a half months
Merger of the German MACS and Hugo Stinnes, both active in the MPP vessel segment
Hamburg/Rostock
Stinnes headquarters in Rostock to close by December 31
In the second quarter, freight traffic in Albanian ports grew by +2.9%
Tirana
There were 331 thousand passengers (+13.6%)
A.SPE.DO, operationalizing the Smart Terminal to increase the competitiveness of the port of La Spezia.
La Spezia
ING loans to Premuda for over 100 million dollars
Milan
Funds for the management buyout and the purchase of two product tankers
Sallaum Lines has taken delivery of the first of six Ocean-class dual-fuel PCTCs
Rotterdam
The ship was completed four months ahead of schedule
First meeting of the new Management Committee of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority
Genoa
Several measures approved, including those for CULMV and CULP staff
Euroports to operate a new liquid bulk terminal in the French port of Port-La Nouvelle
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
It is expected to become operational in 2026
In the second quarter, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +2.6%
Ravenna
Growth of 0.6% was recorded in June. An increase of 4.8% is expected in July.
OsserMare presents five reports on the marine economy
Rome
They focus on a specific sector supply chain or aspect of it
Port of Naples: Road haulage operations resume
Naples
Resolution meeting between institutions, operators and trade associations
ICTSI again reports record quarterly financial and operating results
Manila
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