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called city freighters and the other vehicle light freight-delivery vehicle (LFV).
It is important to highlight that Cityporto is not an enterprise but a brand of
Interporto di Padova S.p.A. The number of employees working partially on this
service are three: two managers and one assistant. The logistics and commercial
operations are made by a co-operative enterprise, where 12 people are affected to
this service, plus one logistics advisor, who is an external consultant engaged full
and long time on Cityporto's operational and commercial management.
The main activities of Interporto di Padova S.p.A. are oriented on two main
axes: intermodality and sustainability. The company manages an intermodal ter-
minal, providing logistics and real estate services to providers and operators. The
company's logistics department holds a specific know-how to answer all technical
and service logistics needs proposing a wide variety of services: consultancy,
goods storage and management services, and assistance to national and interna-
tional transportation, focusing on rail-road intermodal terminal services.
Cityporto is one of the sustainable logistics solutions of Interporto di Padova,
more precisely the city logistics solution adopted in five Italian cities, where Padua
was the first of them and the place of the project's conception and testing. The
main activities of Cityporto are destined to transportation operators, although some
self-transportation companies like furniture retailers are also customers of the
service. The term customer will be used to define the transportation contractor, i.e.
the operator or retailer asking Cityporto's services. The retailer will be the actor
receiving the freight, although B2C transportation operations can also take place.
The main activities are related to last mile urban freight transportation, and
include transportation, cross-docking, warehousing, and management of rejected
freight by the retailer or other non-delivering situations. In this case, Cityporto
finds a solution in agreement with its customer to satisfy the main needs as soon as
possible. The platform operations are assured by a co-operative enterprise, which
are paid proportionally to the quantity of freight that passes through the platform.
The tariffs of the service are contracted with each customer, in base of the quantity
of freight to be delivered.
3.1 Economic Dimension
Although the project was developed for environmental reasons, it is important to
assure its continuity by a strong economic performance. For this reason, in 2003,
after the signature of an agreement between the institutional stakeholders and
Interporto di Padova S.p.A. related to Cityporto project initial founding and main
guidelines, an industrial plan was developed. This industrial plan is based on the
fact that the benefits of a city logistics system in a small or medium urban area has
to be to reach the balance in order to do not depend on public funding contribu-
tions to maintain it.
As a support to tactical and operational planning, a strong information system
has to be developed. Cityporto has developed its own information system in synergy
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