Two offers were received by Interporto Padova by the end of the today's deadline for the selection procedure for the logistics partner with which to develop the intermodal terminal of the interport and were presented by the company terminal operator PSA Italia together with the logistics company Logtainer and the group's Rail Hub Milano intermodal terminal Contship Italia together with the logistics company Medlog of the MSC shipowner group.

Today the tender commission was appointed which is chaired by the general manager of Interporto Padova, Roberto Tosetto, and of which Roberto Crosta, for the Municipality of Padua, Luca Contatto, and for the Province, Carlo Sartore. To these representatives of the public shareholders who express the majority of the company is flanked by the Professor Carola Pagliarin of the University of Padua expert in the field of public administrative law accounting publishes public contracts.

The call provides for the creation of a new company, which will take the name of Intermodal Terminal Padova Srl to which the terminal asset of Interporto Padova with all its activities. The breakdown of the quotas provides that Interporto Padova will maintain a 30% stake in the new company and in the statute guarantee clauses are established, such as the impossibility of changing the intermodal destination of the area without the consent of Interporto Padova, independently from the shares held in the newco. Interporto Padova will have a representative on the Board of Directors of Intermodal Terminal Padova and the Chairman of the Board of Statutory Auditors of the new company.

The basic value of the tender, equal to 70% of the value of the new company, is set at 60 million euros. The procedure selection will take place with the criterion of the offer (20 points the economic offer, 15 points the impartiality i.e. the opening of terminal A all market players, 40 points the quality of the Terminal development project and 25 solidity points financial and investment prospects) i.e. it will evaluate with objective parameters not only the economic offer, but above all the industrial project presented by the bidder

The next two months or so will be spent on the analysis of the offers received and the provisional award to which, since it is a publicly controlled company, it will have to follow the green light from the Court of Auditors and the Agency of the Market Competition Authority. The conclusion of the operation and the final award of the tender will be subject to the green light of the collegial bodies of public shareholders of Interporto Padova and the final closing will come presumably in the spring of next year.

Commenting on the outcome of the collection of bids, the president of Interporto Padova, Luciano Greco, underlined that "better perhaps it could not have gone like this, in the sense - he explained - that we have the main operators in the world who are in two roped parties so we think that the bet we had made a few months ago to open up to the international market is won. We have the practical demonstration that the large groups international and European companies operating in the logistics and rail transports are looking for platforms in the area eastern part of the Po Valley and have chosen Padua, despite the fact that must invest at least 60 million euros to enter into partnership with the Padua freight village. Interporto di Padova will enter in an international network and therefore from this point of view I, as a On behalf of the entire Board of Directors, I express great satisfaction with the result. The positivity lies precisely in the quality of the two groups in the competition and that this competition takes place between the world's leading operators. That's positive also for Italy, in the sense that it is shown that the opening of our country's infrastructures to forms of public-private partnership where the public part is guaranteed in this case from Interporto di Padova it is a formula of success".

"We - continued Greco - are the first in Italy probably also in Europe to do, as land terminals this type of operation. Starting from a public entity that managed in autonomy We have brought the terminal to the forefront from the point of view of technological point of view and at this point we placed it in a proposed to the market aimed at creating a partnership: the The answer for the moment seems flattering to us. Groups arrive that they have the solidity and also the industrial curriculum, that is, the track record of both industrial and third-party management with respect to the subjects operating in the market, therefore they are all criteria that animated the public debate that took place among the public shareholders also in the discussion phase in the council and those stimuli that had emerged in a also very precise and punctual between March and April and that we have translated into the tender regulations were well interpreted by the market".