Joint Venture between Ferrovie Dello Stato and Poste Italiane
Italia Logistica seeks to reach a position of excellence amongst the major international players by 2010.
Through the integration between the activities of Omnia Logistica (FS Group) and the activities of SDA Logistica (Poste Italiane Group), Ferrovie dello Stato and Poste Italiane have created a joint venture on equal terms that demonstrates their strategic vision and ability to systemise.
The sharing of reciprocal experiences will produce synergies that are able to create significant savings in terms of operations and undisputable competitive advantages both in terms of the market and to the benefit of the entire Italian system, even in light of the liberalisation of the goods transportation sector. The unique nature of the business model of Italia Logistica, which integrates the offer of combined railway-road transportation over long distances (typical of Omnia Logistica) with the activity of delivering up to the “last mile” (characteristic of SDA Logistica), will make it possible to bring together the movement of large volumes of goods with the wide distribution of small-scale delivery.
The operations of Italia Logistica will centre on the sorting hubs of Ferrovie dello Stato and Poste Italiane, thereby allowing the new goods carrier to take advantage of a network of pick-up and drop-off points that are extremely widespread throughout Italy.
Italia Logistica will play on the integration between railway-road transportation and a park of ecological vehicles to unite efficiency and respect for the environment. The commercial strategy of the new company will focus above all on providing high-value, integrated services for the market segments of Urban Logistics, Reverse logistics, the “inverse logistics” that deal with the flow of return goods from clients to producers, as well as the HoReCa (Hotel, Restaurant, Cafè) sector.
Italia Logistica seeks to reach a position of excellence amongst the major international players by 2010.
Through the integration between the activities of Omnia Logistica (FS Group) and the activities of SDA Logistica (Poste Italiane Group), Ferrovie dello Stato (Italian National Train company) and Poste Italiane have created a joint venture on equal terms that demonstrates their strategic vision and ability to systemise.
The sharing of reciprocal experiences will produce synergies that are able to create significant savings in terms of operations and undisputable competitive advantages both in terms of the market and to the benefit of the entire Italian system, even in light of the liberalisation of the goods transportation sector. The unique nature of the business model of Italia Logistica, which integrates the offer of combined railway-road transportation over long distances (typical of Omnia Logistica) with the activity of delivering up to the “last mile” (characteristic of SDA Logistica), will make it possible to bring together the movement of large volumes of goods with the wide distribution of small-scale delivery.
The operations of Italia Logistica will centre around the sorting hubs of Ferrovie dello Stato and Poste Italiane, thereby allowing the new goods carrier to take advantage of a network of pick-up and drop-off points that are extremely widespread throughout Italy.
Moreover, Italia Logistica will play on the integration between railway-road transportation and a park of ecological vehicles to unite efficiency and respect for the environment. The commercial strategy of the new company will focus above all on providing high-value, integrated services for the market segments of Urban Logistics, Reverse logistics, the “inverse logistics” that deal with the flow of return goods from clients to producers, as well as the HoReCa (Hotel, Restaurant, Cafè) sector.
In fact, HoReCa distribution, unlike Large-scale Organised Distribution, is characterised by its widespread nature and the speed of delivery.
The joint venture between the two Groups is the result of a common strategy initiated last year with the signing of a letter of intention with which FS and Poste Italiane pledged to consolidate and take advantage of their different specificities to create a logistics operator at the service of the Italian and European distribution and production system that would be able to support the competitiveness of enterprises and establish itself in a key sector for the economic development of the country.
For this reason – emphasised Mauro Moretti, the Managing Director of FS – we have created Italia Logistica, a new company that within the context of a heavily competitive market will work in the area of Integrated Logistics and, therefore, in the movement of goods door-to-door as well”.
In summary, the strengths of the new integrated logistics operator will be: – intermodal railway-road transportation;
– the more widespread nature of the pick-up and drop-off points;
– the offer of new services;
– door-to-door distribution;
– the use of new information systems.
