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Green light of the Chamber to the framework law in matter to interpose to you and of logistic territorial platforms
The provision passes to the examination of the Senate. Curls (Union To interpose Reunited you): it is "a great result"
April 12, 2012

Today the Chamber of Deputies has approved of the unified text of the concerning logistic territorial platform and bills in parliament the "Framework law in matter to interpose to you". The green light, after about two years of work and arguments parliamentarians is greeted with satisfaction the Union To interpose to you Reunited (UIR) that it has found as the provision, that passes to the examination of the Senate now, is more and more near the definitive approval.

"After more than twenty years from the first it reads in matter To interpose (law to you n 240/90) - it has emphasized the UIR - finally interposing to you can see recognized a renewed normative context in the contents and above all adapted to the recent changes that have interested the logistics that now more than ever it demands a contestualizzata operativity and in harmony with the territory of reference whose borders are increased to Europe".

The Union To interpose Reunited you has evidenced the two more meaningful innovations of the provision: the constitution of the national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics, with programmatiche functions and of promotion, and the clear location and definition of requirement minimums for which an infrastructure it will be able to make use of the title of interporto.

Remembering that interposing to you they have many times over given proof of the strategic role that they not only play from a merely trasportistico point of view, but also economic and social, the president of the UIR, Alessandro Ricci, has defined the approval by the Chamber "a great result that - he has explained - he rewards us is for the job that we have up to now carried out to support of the iter governmental and of all the members of parliament that has believed in the importance to adapt by now anachronistic a normative picture, are for the profuse engagement in the more recent years the single ones to interpose you that with great coherence the strategies of command for debit have been riposizionati on the market changing a reasonable justification to the principles and the contents of the new normative picture".

The Union To interpose Reunited you has turned a thanks to the parliamentarians Silvia Velo and Gaetano Nastri, presenters of the witnesses originals, to the reporter, Daniele Toto, to president of IX the Commission Trasporti, Posts and Telecommunications, Mario Valducci, and to all its members in order to have reached to a almost unanimous text, to the undersecretary Guido Improta, vice minister Mario Ciaccia and minister Corrado Passera, in order to have believed in the importance of this reform. "Obviously - it has concluded Curly - the association confirmation, fort of this first victory, its engagement to support of the Chamber of the senators".



Unified text of the Commission

Framework law in matter to interpose to you and of logistic territorial platforms.

Art. 1.
(Within of application and definitions).

1. Law anticipates establishes, according to article 117, third codicil, of the Constitution, in the within of the matters the concerning the civil ports and airports, let alone great nets of transport and navigation, the fundamental principles in matter to interpose you and territorial logistic platforms.

2. In performance than had from codicil 1, law anticipates pursues the following purposes:

  1. to improve and to increase the concentration of the transport flows;
  1. to rationalize the use of the territory according to the transport;
  1. to contribute to the decrease of the environmental impact of the transport activities;
  1. to exceed the limits of the traditional rail shipment and intermodal marine earthling and, promuovendo the effective competitive potentialities on the traffics of long distance and the availability of a carrying net of base finalized to the increase of the enterprises of the transport and the logistics.
3. In any case, the competences of the regions with special statute and the independent provinces of Trento and Bolzano according to the respective special statutos and the relative norms of performance are made blank.

4. According to law anticipates agrees:

  1. for "territorial logistic platform", the complex of infrastructures and the services, you anticipate on an interregional territory, destined to carry out connecting functions of strategic value for the entire national territory, in particular in its relationships with the transnational net of the transports, in order to favor the more effective interconnection to the aim to improve the competitiveness of the Country;
  1. for "interporto", the organic complex of infrastructures and integrated services of national importance managed from an entrepreneurial subject that work to the aim to favor mobility of the goods between various modalities of transport, with the objective to increase the intermodalità and the efficiency of the logistic flows;
  1. for "intermodal infrastructure", every infrastructure, linear or nodal, functional to connectivity of the logistic platform;
  1. for "national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics", the organism, instituted near the Ministry of infrastructures and the transports, that it carries out the functions of which to article 4.

Art. 2.
(Programming of the structures).

1. The Minister of infrastructures and the transports, felt the opinion of the national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics, with or more you decree, supplies:

  1. to the recognition of already existing interposing you and answering to the deliberation of the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning 7 April 1993, published in the Gazette n. 111 on May 14, 1993;
  1. to the recognition of intermodal infrastructures.
2. The informative and statistical Department for transport, navigation and systems of the Ministry of infrastructures and the transports, against to seem, to be profitable within twenty days from the demand, of general Consulta for the road haulage and the logistics, in case of necessity integrated with the participation of representatives of interposing to you let alone of the enterprises and operating the railway or intermodal operators on the national territory, elaborate the general Plan for the intermodalità.

3. The Minister of infrastructures and the transports, advance 3 strategic appraisal environmental of which to I decree legislative April 2006, n. 152, with own I decree, adopted advance understanding during unified Conference of which to article 8 of I decree legislative 28 August 1997, n. 281, and next modifications, below called "which unified Conference", it also approves of the general Plan for the intermodalità, supplying to the definition of the territorial logistic platforms and to the relative administrative discipline.

4. The outline of I decree of which to codicil 3 it is transmitted to the Chambers for the expression of the opinion by the competent Parliamentary commissions for matter, to be profitable within thirty days from the allocation. Passed such term, I decree can be however adopted.

5. With I decree of which to codicil 3 or with next I decree adopted with the procedure of which to codicils 3 and 4, the Minister of infrastructures and the transports determines the within of infuence of each territorial platform logistic, in coherence with the transeuropei corridors of transport, as defined from the decision n. 661/2010/UE of the European Parliament and the Council, on July 7, 2010.

6. The Minister of infrastructures and the transports, against to seem of the national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics, with or more you decree, together with the Minister of the atmosphere and of the protection of the territory and the sea, in logic of system to net of interposing to you and the territorial logistic platforms, it supplies to the location of new interposing to you, verified the subsistence of the conditions previewed from article 3, codicils 1 and 2, let alone to the intermodal infrastructure location new, on the base of the outcomes of the recognition activity of which to codicil 1 and the general Plan for the approved of intermodalità according to codicil 3 of article anticipates.

7. The Minister of infrastructures and the transports, with I decree to adopt together with the Minister of the economy and of finances, advance understanding during which unified Conference, characterizes the criteria for it uses of the resources financial institutions of which to article 6, codicil 2, finalized to the realization and the development of interposing to you, intermodal infrastructures and the territorial logistic platforms.

8. To the performance of article anticipates provides in the limits of the human, instrumental resources and financial institutions available to enforced legislation and however without new or puts up burdens for the public finance.


Art. 3.
(Requirement of the structures).

1. The location of a new one interporto is subordinated to the subsistence of the following foundations:

  1. availability of a territory lacking in landscaped, naturalistic or town-planning constraints that of it compromise the feasibility;
  1. directed street connections with the practicability of great communication;
  1. directed railway connections with the priority national railway net;
  1. adapted to street and railway connections with at least a port that is an airport;
  1. coherence with the transeuropei corridors of transport, as defined from the decision n. 661/2010/UE of the European Parliament and the Council, on July 7, 2010.
2. The project of a new one interporto, in the respect of I decree legislative 3 April 2006, n. 152, must also preview:

  1. an intermodal, suitable railway terminal to form or to receive complete trains, in compliance with European standards, in a position to operating with a not inferior number to ten couples of trains for week;
  1. for vehicles industrial a equipped area of pause;
  1. a customs service;
  1. an office district;
  1. an area for services destined to the people and for services destined ones to the industrial vehicles;
  1. destined various areas, respective, to the functions of intermodal transport, logistics of supplying, industrial logistics, distributive logistics and city distributive logistics;
  1. systems that guarantee safety of the goods, the areas and the operators;
  1. interconnections with platforms info-data transmissions oriented to the management of the logistic processes and the transport of goods.
3. Already operating interposing to you and those under realization they must guarantee the respect of the conditions of which to codicils 1 and 2 within the fifth next year to that in course to the date of effectiveness of law anticipates.

4. The planning, the realization and the management of a interporto must answer to criteria of unitarism between the various previewed functions and must be consistent to adequate and certifyd security systems and of control let alone of energy saving.


Art. 4.
(National Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics).

1. Firm remaining the competences of the harbour authorities, the national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics, in conformity with the objectives of which to article 1, it carries out the following tasks:

  1. address, programming and coordination of all the initiatives inherent to the development of the territorial logistic platforms, to the aims of integration of the systems of terrestrial, marine, fluvial and aerial transport let alone of the simplification of the operations and the improvement of the intermodal and logistic services of the goods;
  1. promotion of the economic development and the qualitative improvement of the making areas part of the territorial logistic platforms in compliance with requirement of which to article 3.
2. With regulations emanated with I decree of the Minister of infrastructures and the transports, within ninety days from the date of effectiveness of anticipates law, according to article 17, codicil 3, of the 23 law August 1988, n. 400, are defined the composition, the organization, the operation and the administrative and accounting discipline of the national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics, in the respect of the following principles:

  1. the Committee is presided by the Minister of infrastructures and the transports or from a its delegate;
  1. they take part of the Committee, which members by right, the presidents of the regions in whose territory is located the territorial logistic platforms;
  1. the composition, the organization and the operation of the Committee are disciplined according to the territorial withins interested from the initiatives times to the realization and the development of interposing to you, intermodal infrastructures and the territorial logistic platforms, also previewing the constitution of appropriate subcommittees;
  1. to the members of the Committee emolument is not up, compensations or reimbursements of distributed expenses to any title.
3. To article 46, codicil 1, of the decree-law 6 Decembers 2011, n. 201, converted, with modifications, from the law 22 Decembers 2011, n. 214, after the words: “through actions of understanding and coordination with” the following ones are inserted: “the national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics,”.

4. From the performance of article anticipates does not have to derive new or puts up burdens for the public finance.


Art. 5.
(Nature of the management).

1. The management of a interporto constitutes activity of performance of services re-entering between the having activities commercial nature.

2. The subjects that manage to interpose to you act by right in private regime, even if their charter does not preview the aim of makes a profit. In any case, I use it of public resources is disciplined by the norms on the accounting of State and by the code of contracts relative publics to work, services and supplies, of which to I decree legislative 12 April 2006, n. 163. The subject foretold ones supply to the realization of the relative structures to the new ones to interpose you of codicils 1 according to and 2 of article 3 of anticipate law, let alone, compatibly with the balance of own budget, to the structural adaptation of already operating interposing to you and of those under realization, according to codicil 3 of same article 3.


Art. 6.
(Potenziamento of the infrastructural net of the territorial logistic platforms).

1. In compliance with the activity of programming of which to article 2, within on 31 May of every year, the Minister of infrastructures and the transports, felt the national Committee for the intermodalità and the logistics, advance understanding during which unified Conference, in order to guarantee the optimization, the effectiveness and the efficiency of the administrative action, in the within of the resources of which to codicil 2 of article anticipates, it characterizes, in priority order, the relative projects to the realization and the development of interposing to you, intermodal infrastructures and the territorial logistic platforms.

2. To the aims of the financing of the projects of which to codicil 1, the expense of 5 million euros for everyone of years 2012, 2013 and 2014 is authorized.


Art. 7.
(Management of special waste and transport and dangerous storage of the goods).

1. In the respect of the national norm and the enforced European Union in matter of refusals and dangerous transport of the goods, with I decree of the Minister of the atmosphere and of the protection of the territory and the sea, together with the Minister of infrastructures and the transports, advance understanding during which unified Conference, is disciplined the modalities of management of dangerous special waste and the goods, to the aim to favor, also through the definition of procedures simplified, the modal diversion and safety of the transports in the within of the territorial logistic platforms.


Art. 8.
(Town-planning Discipline).

1. Al fine to accelerate the realization of infrastructures of transport and practicability let alone that of parkings, the projects of which to article 6, elaborated on the base of the general Plan for the intermodalità approved of from the Minister of the infrastructures and of the transports according to article 2, constitutes in all respects varying town-planning regarding the town-planning plans of competence of the local governments in whose aimed at territorial the territorial logistic platforms are located, as defined to article 1, codicil 4, letter a).


Art. 9.
(Cover financial institution).

1. To the burdens deriving from article 6, codicil 2, pairs to 5 million euros for everyone of years 2012, 2013 and 2014, reduction of the appropriation of the special fund of capital account is provided by means of correspondent member, to the aims of triennial budget 2012-2014, in the within of the program “Deep special Reserve funds and” of the mission “to leave again” of the state of forecast of the Ministry of the economy and finances for year 2012, to the scope partially using the relative billeting to the Ministry of the atmosphere and the protection of the territory and of sea.

2. The Minister of the economy and finances is authorized to bring, with own decrees, the being necessary variations budgetary.
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Hedehusene
Quarterly record in air and ocean shipment volumes
In 2024, the Fratelli Cosulich group's revenues increased by +12.8%
Genoa
Operating result down by -31.7%
In the second quarter of this year, Finnlines' revenues decreased by -5.0%.
Helsinki
Net profit of 26.1 million euros (+7.7%)
Container traffic in the Port of New York remained stable in the April-June quarter.
New York
An increase of +4.9% was recorded in the first half of 2025
Latrofa appointed extraordinary commissioner of the Port Authority of the Central-Northern Tyrrhenian Sea
Rome
Ministerial decree signed
The Chamber of Deputies approves the appointment of the presidents of five Port System Authorities.
Rome
They are Davide Gariglio, Francesco Rizzo, Eliseo Cuccaro, Francesco Benevolo and Giovanni Gugliotti
The PNRR tender for interports has been reopened.
Rome
Resources available amounting to 2.2 million euros
Port of Livorno: Workers are the priority in the LTM crisis
Livorno
UPS's quarterly earnings performance declines
Atlanta
Net income in the April-June quarter was $1.28 billion (-8.9%)
Approval for the 2025 budget variation of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea Port Authority.
Gioia Tauro
500 thousand euros for the 49% share held by the Port Agency company
FHP Group acquires the remaining 10% stake in Lotras
Milan/Foggia
The integration between Lotras and CFI Intermodal will begin to create FHP Intermodal.
OITAF scientific document on good practices in the logistics and transport of fresh fruit and vegetables
Milan
The Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority has joined the PLIKA
Livorno
Platform dedicated to training, innovation and knowledge sharing in the logistics and port sectors
Matteo Paroli's nomination as president of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority has been signed.
Rome
He has a degree in law and a specialization in administrative law.
Container throughput increases in Haropa Port, while bulk cargo decreases.
Le Havre
In the first half of this year, containers were 1.51 million TEUs (+4%)
Bureau Veritas reports a 9.8% quarterly increase in revenues in the Marine & Offshore segment
Courbevoie
Kalmar and Konecranes increase new orders in the April-June quarter
Helsinki
The turnover of the two Finnish companies is slightly increasing
Container traffic in the port of Barcelona fell by 12.2% in the second quarter.
Barcelona
Assiterminal threatens a new wave of appeals against regulations it believes are damaging to port operations
Genoa
2M Logistics signs an agreement with Salerno-based Gallozzi
Barendrecht
The Dutch company will represent GF Logistics, a subsidiary of the Italian group, in the Benelux region.
Swiss company Kuehne+Nagel's quarterly profits fell
Schindellegi
In the period April-June of this year, net turnover grew by +1.7%
Yang Ming orders three 8,000 TEU container ships from Nihon Shipyard and Imabari Shipbuilding
Keelung/Imabari
Contract valued at $351.3-394.5 million
Egypt's first automotive terminal has come into operation at Port Said East.
East Port Said
It can accommodate two car carriers at the same time
Italia Nostra reiterates its strong concerns about the construction of the Fiumicino-Isola Sacra port.
Rome
European maritime cities, destinations for cruise tourism - the association highlights - denounce the phenomenon of over-tourism in the cruise sector
Tepsa has acquired a liquid bulk terminal in the port of Rotterdam.
Singapore/Rotterdam
It was sold by Global Energy Storage Holdings
The Spinelli Group has approved its 2024 sustainability report.
Genoa
Of the company's 616 direct employees, 49% are under the age of 50.
In the second quarter of this year, cargo traffic in Turkish ports grew by +1.6%
Ankara
Cargoes to and from Italy amounted to 12.7 million tons (+10.1%)
Extension of the Simplified Logistics Zone for Genoa Ports and Dry Ports to the Savona, Vado Ligure, and Bergeggi areas.
Genoa
Approval from the ZLS Steering Committee
Isotta Fraschini Motori has inaugurated a new production line for hydrogen fuel cell systems in Bari.
Trieste
They will be used for naval and land solutions
The Grande Shanghai , the Grimaldi Group's first ammonia-ready car carrier, has been christened.
Naples
It has a load capacity of 9,000 CEUs.
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
Confindustria event on the sea economy in Rome on July 15th
Rome
The public meeting of the International Containers Studies Center will be held in Genoa on July 2nd
Genoa
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Why Malta is objecting to a new price cap on Russian oil
(timesofmalta.com)
US has its eye on Greek ports
(Kathimerini)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
The Port of Genoa, FILT, and UILT have declared a five-day strike at the Bettolo Terminal.
Genoa
Fit Cisl Liguria expressed solidarity with the workers
The tender for the dredging of the commercial dock basin at the port of Ancona has been published.
Ancona
The removal of approximately 730 thousand cubic meters of sediment is planned
Tender for the restoration and enhancement of docks 32 and 33 in the Deep Sea Zone of the port of Savona
Genoa
An investment of over 6.7 million euros is expected
There are 1,100 workers in Palermo directly employed in the seaside tourism sector
Palermo
This year, cruise traffic is expected to grow by 9.4% in the port of the Sicilian capital.
Port of Trieste: Special Commissioner Gurrieri under investigation for money laundering
Trieste
I am certain - he declared - that I can demonstrate that I acted legally, in full transparency.
Six-month growth of +9% in freight on the St. Petersburg-India/China maritime route
Fly
FESCO operates six vessels in the service
Vard signs new contract for the construction of two CSOVs
Trieste
The vessels will be used to support operations in the offshore wind sector
UIR welcomes the publication of the tender for the digitalization of the logistics chain.
Rome
Di Caterina (ALIS): a concrete tool that enhances the needs of businesses and strengthens the logistics system
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