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April 28, 2022
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- The recovery of Italian logistics threatened by the effects
of the war in Ukraine
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- Nicolini (Confetra): from an economic point of view the scenario
is of great uncertainty
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 The Italian General Confederation of Transport and
Logistics (Confetra) has published the Logistics Almanac 2022
elaborated by its own Study Center that highlights how the sector
of logistics, although hard hit by the impact of the
pandemic, has been able to react strongly by recovering volumes
moved in almost all sectors. Positive evolution that,
however, it is now overshadowed by the effects on the logistics of the
war in Ukraine. "We thought - explained the president of
Confetra, Guido Nicolini - to glimpse the light at the end of the tunnel
after two difficult years, but we must, unfortunately, face this
further terrible crisis linked to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
First of all, we hope that a solution will be found as soon as possible
peaceful that puts an end to the dramatic exodus of refugees and the
loss of life. But also from an economic point of view the
scenario is of great uncertainty. We know, unfortunately, that we
are psychological effects that impact on economic events
as much and perhaps even more than objective factors. In one phase
like this, so - Nicolini observed - it is difficult
support a recovery in investment and a capacity for
private industrial fabric to hook the challenges of the transition
digital and environmental. All raw materials have undergone
very strong increases, from those related to energy to those of the
feed. All this can only have an impact
heavy. All analysts converge in saying that these price increases
they will devour, unfortunately, an important part of the recovery."-
- The Logistics Almanac 2022 notes that in 2021 the strong
rebound in Italian industrial production (+11.8%)
led to a substantial recovery in foreign trade both in
import that in export and, consequently, a good recovery of the
logistics in all modes of goods handling,
with the necessary differences. Gross domestic product has made
record a growth of +6.6% not enough to recover the
strong contraction of the pandemic year (-3.0% compared to 2019) and the
components that have driven this recovery continue to be,
but after all - the report specifies - they have been for over ten years,
exports and to a lesser extent imports.
- Last year the road and motorway traffic of vehicles
heavy has recovered the pre-pandemic data and, also in this case,
traffic at the Alpine passes was the driving force (+6.8% compared to
2019). Goods handled by air also made
record a strong expansion that allowed the recovery
the complete volumes of 2019 and there was also a
a strong polarization of traffic at Milan Malpensa airport
which has come to handle almost 73% of the entire traffic
national aircargo. Rail traffic, after showing the
its resilience during the pandemic, has not interrupted its trend
growth both in terms of train-km (+13.5%) and tons of
goods transported (+16.6%), an index trend of trains more and more
Heavy. The trend was much more varied
of the maritime sector where a substantial recovery of traffic
gateway containers of pre-pandemic volumes has joined
a consistent growth in that of transhipment (linked to the
performance of the port of Gioia Tauro) and a consistent contraction
of liquid bulk (-10.4%). Well the ro-ro traffic that has
recovered and abundantly exceeded the volumes of 2019, so
like the solid bulk that thanks to the strong rebound have been brought
to -4.8% from pre-pandemic volumes.
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