Interporto Regionale della Puglia
The Interporto Regionale della Puglia (EU
co-funded project for the period 2000-2006 trough the the use of
ERDF) is one of the most innovative intermodal systems in
Southern Italy. The interporto area is about 45 hectares of which
90.000 sqm. is designated for warehousing and office space.
Because of its strategic position, the Interporto
Regionale della Puglia can be considered as the only
logistics infrastructure in the eastern Mediterranean area capable
of handling traffic to and from the Balkans, particularly in
relation to the implementation of the European Corridor VIII
Bari-Varna. The Interporto Regionale della Puglia is a member of
both UIR (Interportos italian Association) and Europlatform.
The Interporto Regionale della Puglia offers to the
freight forwarders and logistics companies high quality
warehousing and office facilities. Interporto'customers belong to
the most famous national and international companies in the
logistic and express courier sector.
Interporto warehouses, (common type or rail-connected type)
are flexible and the layout can be customized with
"tailor made" solutions to satisfy all individual
requirements. All of our warehouses feature advanced
systems and equipment (sprinkler system, fire control system,
phone and data networks in the office areas). The Interporto offers
both ambient temperature storage facilities and cold-storage
for food logistics.
Offices comprise of two separate buildings on three levels
creating units of several different sizes. Each has been finished
to the highest specification in a brand new style. A parking area
at ground floor level has parking for 145 cars.
The Interporto intermodal terminal comprises of
4 tracks, used to organize trains to transport all
types of containers, swap bodies and semi-trailers on
national and international routes. The terminal also offers a
storage area for containers and other facilities (groupage,
maintenance, etc). The terminal total area is 35.000 sqm and
will be equipped with transtainers and reachstakers.
The interporto offers too high standard security facilities,
optical fiber broadband connection, and customs offices.
The Interporto Regionale della Puglia is located in a strategic
position in relation to the transport infrastructures already
present in the territory. The Interporto is situated less than 5 km
from the nearest highway exit, the port of Bari and the
international airport of Bari Palese. The Interporto is directly
accessible from the Bari highway ring road and is connected
to the central raillway station trough the a subway line
station.
The Interporto building has been both an exciting and complexed
experience. First of all according to the national law an
EIA (Environmental Impact Assessment) has been mandatory,
focusing mainly on the accessibility and the generated traffic
effects on the project area, the safeguard of some historical
existing heritage and the treatment and disposal of the
collected rainwater. Due to its position close to the city of Bari
one of the main activities has been represented in building the
network, aimed to obtain all the required permissions, with all the
institutional bodies and utilities operators involved by the
Interporto construction.
In the next years Interporto Regionale della Puglia, actually
fully booked, will be extended in the adjacent area of "Scalo
Ferruccio", an old intermodal terminal managed by the italian
railway company. The extension project is enclosed in the priority
projects of the Regional Development Plan, the official document
which locates the projects that will be EU co-funded in the period
2007-2013 trough the use of ERDF.
The extension area has a surface of 275.500 sqm and for this
area is allowed to build a surface of 78.000 sqm. Owen to the EU
rules the extension project has to be completed within the 2015.
With the extension project will be carry out a new rail shunting
yard and new high speed road connection with the main road network
(EU and national co-funded).
For the future years Interporto main shareholder has planned
several projects in, to be realized with a PPP approach, aimed to
create a infrastructural network, which, promoting the use of rail
as main freight transport modality, will connect the Port of
Taranto to Interporto. The Interporto in this way will represent an
infrastructural "engine" to distribute the goods, coming mainly
from the Far East areas, to the Central Europe principal
markets.
Contact person to NETLIPSE is:
Giancarlo Giannetti - Project Manager
(the information on this website was originally published in the
7th Edition of the
NETLIPSE Magazine)