Oti Piemonte Report 2024 – 15 April 2024. Maria Pellino, Milan – Italianewsmedia.it – PC Lava – Magazine Alessandria today

OTI PIEDMONT REPORT 2024, MORE CONSTRUCTION SITE AND FEWER PROJECTS AT RISK
INFRASTRUCTURE AND LOGISTICS FACTORS OF CONSTANT GROWTH

The 2024 edition of the monitoring platform was presented in Alessandria
the advancement of the 69 infrastructures considered most urgent by Piedmontese companies
Slala Foundation illustrated an analysis on the future scenarios of goods trafficking in the North West

Alexandria, 15 April 2024

Three jobs completed and five more open construction sites. The works in line with the program are increasing and those that are late are decreasing, but eleven remain only project proposals. This in a nutshell Oti Piedmont Report 2024which monitored the progress in the design and construction of the 69 infrastructures deemed urgent by Confindustria Piemonte companies. Of these, 37 are common to the “White Paper on Piedmont’s infrastructural priorities” created by Unioncamere Piedmont that together with the Piemonte region collaborates with the regional Territorial Infrastructure Observatory.

Of the works monitored by Oti, only 27 out of 69 are already under construction, there were 22 in the previous edition of the report. To these are added 39 works still only on paper: 27 are in the planning phase, twelve are simple project proposals. The there are three works completed in the last year: the Turin-Caselle Airport railway connection, the reactivation of the Casale Monferrato-Mortara railway service and the new bridge over the Ticino between Vigevano and Abbiategrasso.

Absolutely, between construction sites and only planned, the works that are in line with the timetable increased from 23 to 30 in the last yearof which 18 are with work in progress. However, those who suffered a delay decreased from 20 to 16 in the last 12 months, including seven already under construction. They remain unchanged at 9 those with a serious delay, two of these are already under construction. To reach 69, the eleven works on stand-by and the three completed must be added.

“Piedmontese companies consider the 69 works monitored by Oti Piemonte to be important for ensuring development and growth of the regional economic fabric, but unfortunately almost two thirds of these are still in the planning phase. We are seeing some positive signs, including three completed construction sites, but there are still many unknowns regarding the main strategic works such as Terzo Valico and Turin-Lyon. If we look up at the entire Alpine crossing system, in the last year we have found ourselves in the middle of a perfect storm that goes from the Mont Blanc Tunnel to the landslide in the Maurienne valley, from the Great Saint Bernard to the doubling of the tunnel under the Colle di Tenda. This is an emergency to be resolved as quickly as possible because part of the 110 billion in trade between Italy and France is at risk, and more generally our main gateway to Europe” commented the president of Confindustria Piemonte, Marco Gayin his speech at the presentation of the report.

“We then need to have a new idea of ​​territory, no longer as a static dimension, but as a place of flows and connections – points out Gian Paolo Cosciapresident of Unioncamere Piemonte –. Tourists, students, investors, businesses and families are the actors who trigger these flows and contribute to local development. Infrastructures, both physical and virtual, are a fundamental element for competitiveness but, in an uncertain geopolitical context like the current one, they also take on an even more important role for the stability of the national economy. The Chambers of Commerce play, each in their own territory, a fundamental role as aggregators and catalysts at a local level for the development and implementation of territorial development projects and to encourage connections between various institutional, private and associative subjects. In addition to the monitoring of infrastructure priorities conducted by OtiPiemonte, Unioncamere Piemonte is engaged in two other lines of work: the first, research and analysis, linked to the Piedmontese logistical situation, in collaboration with the Slala Foundation; the second, promotion, linked to the creation of a chain of businesses, in collaboration with Ceipiemonte”.

Among the works monitored by Oti Piemonte, there are ten also financed with Pnrr fundsand which should therefore be concluded by 2026. Of these as many as eight recorded progress in the last year, while on Terzo Valico and the doubling of the Fossano-Cuneo railway line, there was a slowdown due in the first case to unfavorable geological conditions, and to the failure to define the operating model in the second. Overall, the Pnrr has financed twenty works, covering approximately 40% of the overall cost with 4 billion.

“UniCredit wants to support the development, excellence and investments in the infrastructural field of the North West as we are convinced that they represent a fundamental element for the development of both the regional and the Italian system, as emerged from the Oti report, prepared by excellent partners such as Confindustria Piedmont and Unioncamere Piedmont – declares Paola GaribottiRegional Manager North West of UniCredit – like UniCredit, we constantly provide our support to Italian companies with the aim of triggering virtuous growth processes in the territories and we immediately took to the field by setting up a Task Force to support the Government’s national recovery and resilience plan which supports the 6 missions of the PNRR“.

For easier understanding of the report, the 69 monitored infrastructures have also been divided into eight major infrastructure systems: Mediterranean Corridor (2 works), Rhine-Alpine Corridor (7 works), Airport System (5 works), System of intermodal centers (10 works), Alpine Crossing System (11 works), System of intangible connections (1 work) , Pedemontano System (10 works) and Roads of urban nodes (22 works). All of these systems, except the Mediterranean corridor and the intangible connections, have one or more works seriously delayed, which puts their completion at risk.

The Oti 2024 Report was presented in Alessandria at Palazzo del Monferrato, headquarters of the Alessandria-Asti Chamber of Commerce during the event “Infrastructures and logistics. The North West in the European context”. To open the works Edoardo Rixi, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. Following are institutional greetings from Alberto Ciriopresident of the Piedmont Region, Gian Paolo Cosciapresident of Unioncamere Piemonte, Giorgio Angelo Abonantemayor of Alessandria and Laura Coppopresident of Confindustria Alessandria. Cristina Manararesponsible for Transport, logistics and infrastructure of Confindustria Piemonte then illustrated the contents of the Oti Report, Cesare Rossini And Nicola Bassi, of the Slala Foundation then presented the study on development scenarios for the logistics of the Piedmont system. Then it was the turn of the round table “Business needs, resources and opportunities” moderated by the journalist from La Stampa, Gabriele De Stefaniduring which the following spoke: Paul Piacenzaextraordinary commissioner Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, Ascanio Borchipresident of the Confindustria Piemonte logistics and infrastructure commission and president of the Rail Hub Europe intermodal terminal, Antonello Fontanilidirector of Uniontrasporti, Paola Garibotti, regional manager of the north-west area of ​​Unicredit, who sponsored the event. De Stefani then interviewed the president of Confindustria Piemonte, Marco Gay on the topic “New centralities and infrastructures, Piedmont accelerates”. After the lunch break the participants were offered the opportunity to visit the Rail Hub Europe Terminal in Rivalta Scrivia.

Study on development scenarios for the logistics of the Piedmont system

The next decade will be crucial for the Piedmontese ecosystem, in particular for the logistics companies that will be directly involved, as protagonists or as companions, this is the dilemma, from the new infrastructural asset in a challenge whose outcome is yet to be built. The Third Crossing and the works on the Ligurian railway network will allow a mobility of goods from the Ligurian ports never permitted before, the strengthening of the lines towards the New Swiss Transalpine Railway will definitively open the connection for large volumes of goods both from the north and the south, the TAV it will open the door to the west while to the east the Brenner tunnel will be the reference channel. An unprecedented infrastructure which certainly represents a huge opportunity for the Piedmontese production and logistics system. But the doors are open both ways. And who will know how to use them best, whether the operators in the north or us “locals”, will be the challenge we must set from now on to have the chance to win. A challenge that involves all dimensions: the operational dimension to be competitive, the financial dimension to avoid succumbing to the giants, the training dimension to create the necessary skills, the social dimension to be a territory of qualified immigration. A complex challenge in an increasingly complex world.