Faster deliveries, low costs, less pollution: from departure to destination, companies are called by increasingly stringent competition logics to improve the efficiency of logistics and supply chain management. New technologies, including robotics, and artificial intelligence have a decisive, in many ways ‘revolutionary’ role: when systemised, they become indispensable to face international competition.
From the ordinary production of documents to the most complex interconnection systems, the advantages are evident: even just considering the Cmr cycle (the contract document for the international transport of goods by land), digital saves for companies, both in terms of time and money, 60% compared to the ‘traditional’ method (source Unioncamere). These are some of the data that emerged in Rome at the conference organized by Conftrasporto and Federlogistica entitled
“Digitalization and cybersecurity in the PNRR: opportunities for the logistics chain”, which – starting from the next obligations envisaged by the Nis2 directive of the European Union on the topic of cybersecurity – outlined the salient points of digitalization applied to transport.
The president of Conftrasporto Pasquale Russo opened the proceedings: “Artificial intelligence will revolutionize the world of transport and logistics, but in the interconnection of multiple subjects within the same virtual system it also raises the issue of the risk of cyber attacks and the need to protect ourselves – says Russo – Conftrasporto has decided to bring together Italian excellence for a discussion with technicians, teachers and institutions. The objective is to provide companies with solutions and opportunities, and to continue the dialogue with the RAM and the MIT for the implementation of the measures envisaged by the PNRR. We need to accelerate on digital so as not to be left behind: the resources of the Recovery and Resilience Plan only make sense if spent quickly and well”.
“We have a great opportunity, with an extraordinary coincidence, where politics, national regulations, European regulations, availability of funds converge towards the same objective – highlights Francesco Benevolo, director of RAM Spa – We must focus on the implementation of the project with a long-range view and in a perspective of interoperability between all the actors of this ‘design’, where the Pnrr is an additional engine: we are working well with the ports, customs, port authorities, we can certainly become an interoperable logistics system at a national level” .
Meanwhile RAM has started the engines and allocated the funds to start: 30 million, of the so-called login center, committed to creating the central coordination node between the project actors, the interconnector between the operators who will then have to interface with the Public Administration; 45 million to strengthen the main nodes for intermodality and logistics platforms, in particular ports and interports; the public notice was issued for the port system authorities, with the allocation of 1 million euros of funds each (16 in total) for the implementation of the Port Community System (an open and neutral IT system).