At Macfrut

Council of wholesale markets is established to create an interconnected logistics system

by E.Sg.

 IMAGOECONOMICA

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

2' min read

Translated by AI
Versione italiana

 

Transforming agri-food centres into real interconnected logistics hubs, capable of integrating the port, rail and freight village system to optimise the movement of goods and increase the added value of Italia products. This is the objective of thenew Consulta dei Mercati all'Ingrosso, which met for the first time during the Macfrut di Rimini 

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The organisation was set up 'to give a unified voice to a reality that, until now, has struggled to find a coordinated representation at the institutions and by bringing together private individuals and associations,' reads a note from Italmercati, the initiative's leader and thus marking 'a historic step for the Italian agri-food sector.

The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry, Francesco Lollobrigida, who outlined the strategic axes for the future of the sector. Among the issues that emerged from the debate was direct support for production through investments in technological innovation and energy sustainability, with the aim of protecting the agri-food system from imitations and ensuring the economic sustainability of companies.

The new strategic vision aims not at reducing the number of markets, but at classifying and enhancing them through state-of-the-art logistical infrastructures that enable them to reach distribution markets with competitive costs and fast turnaround times.

'Today,' comments Fabio Massimo Pallottini, president of Italmercati , 'we have presented a reality that seemed impossible to achieve until a few years ago. We can speak as a sector with one voice, overcoming the fragmentation of the past. The next step will be to widen the table to include large-scale distribution and retail because the system is changing and we need to grow together. The Consulta is the interlocutor that was missing to send out this message and push the sector towards shared and increasingly higher strategic goals'.

"These days we are working on defining a more strategic distribution system," said the minister, "that is, one that enables us to look at those in France and Spain who have already worked in this direction, not by reducing the number of markets, but by classifying them and having the possibility of having logistics infrastructures that are interconnected.

"Starting with the sea, our widest access point, the rail system, system of freight villages, system of markets, ensuring a logistics system that is able to circulate goods and get them as quickly as possible to the places where value is created," the minister concluded.

Consulta members include Valentino Di Pisa, president Fedagromercati; Nazario Battelli, Cia Agricoltori Italiani; Paolo Mele, Confagricoltura; Lorenzo Bazzana, Coldiretti; Paolo Merci, Italmercati vice president and Veronamercato director;Gianni Ratto, managing director of the Mercato Genova management company; Giorgio Licheri, general manager of the Agro-food Market of Sardinia.

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