There is the whole world of Italian transport and logistics at the fair in Verona this week, "that people - says Guido Grimaldi, president of Alis (1800 associated companies) - who never stopped during the pandemic and made it possible to supply the country, and it was a very important message ".
Thus Let Expo, the exhibition of sustainability linked to the transport and handling of goods, becomes a moment of relaunching this backbone of the country "an event of a transversal and dynamic system" underlines Grimaldi.
The response from the public and exhibitors, registered in the first two days of the event, are a sign of positivity.
"At this fair - continues Grimaldi - we have around 30,000 accreditations, and there is an extraordinary turnout, I think we can reach 40-50,000 people.
Today Alis is reputed to be the first transport and logistics association in the country.
We wanted to do more, because in a synergistic way we put the whole world of transport in contact, from drivers to seafarers, to railway workers, especially ports and interports.
And this time we have also opened up to ITIS and universities, because comparison is necessary. "The project is to make the exhibition grow further:" I think - says Grimldi - that this Expo has the characteristics to be able to become a European event, and perhaps international ".
On the second day of Let Expo - which continues until Saturday 19 March - there was also the video greeting of the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio.
And the reflection of the head of the Farnesina could only begin with the Ukrainian crisis.
"The Russian aggression against Ukraine - said Di Maio - has aggravated the increase in energy costs and created new obstacles in the logistics and procurement of raw materials, especially from Russia and Ukraine".
Di Maio thus underlined the importance of an event such as the Let Expo in Verona, where "crucial issues such as that of sustainable transport and logistics are addressed which, in an international context marked by deep geopolitical tensions and the resulting economic repercussions , acquire even greater importance ".
"2021 - recalled the head of the Farnesina - marked the start of the recovery after the pandemic crisis, with an increase in GDP and in Italy's foreign trade, in the context of an overall recovery in trade".
"However - he added - already in the last months of 2021, we have registered bottlenecks in the global supply chains of raw materials and semi-finished products and criticalities of the global logistic chains. some routes ".
To confirm the transversality of the Veronese expo, there was also room for an immersion in the transport planning of a region as important in the Italian system as Veneto.
The regional councilor Elisa De Berti, who illustrated the new Veneto Regional Transport Plan, was present at the day.
"It will not be a static plan - she explained - but it will have to react to the variables that we have learned about over the years, such as the pandemic and now the war".
"Veneto - pointed out De Berti - was reacting well to the post-Covid, with an 80% recovery of traffic flows, even with a + 5% of the railway. But today the war, which has brought expensive fuel and the absence of raw materials has accentuated the need for new projects for energy and food sovereignty,
beyond the buffer interventions of the Government.
Politics must not make choices on ideological principles but on facts, and for this reason the new PRt is centered on the photograph of the existing and on the project review.
It must have the ability to be resilient and adapt in a timely manner to 'shock waves' ".
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