Titolo

I-Log – Industrial Logistics and intermodal transport for SMEs’ development

The I-Log transnational partnership represents an heterogeneous network of 23 partners in which local transport and logistic needs are analysed and solved from different points of view and with a cross-sectoral and a cross-industry approach.

INTERREG III-B CADSES: Measure

2 - Promoting spatial development approaches and actions for social and economic cohesion

2.1 - Developing efficient transport systems with regard to sustainable development

The CADSES space is characterized by the widespread presence of SMEs and it is a strategic area since north-south and east-west corridors meet. The social and economic development of this space relies on the ability of SMEs to face changes with global, regional and local threats. The main threat to SMEs is represented by the increasing gap between international groups and industrial clusters, networked companies and networks of enterprises, which may leave SMEs and local SMEs system out of value creation chains. Logistics represent a strategic leverage to compete on a global scale since it can ensure the delocalisation of production phases, higher service standards and closer enterprises’ relationships with customers and suppliers. The project aims at providing local SMEs systems with innovative instruments for sustaining their competitiveness and reducing traffic congestion. In particular I-Log is based on six fundamental goals: - Definition and implementation of a set of logistic services with reference to the existing infrastructures - Regional Logistic Service Pattern - in order rationalise logistics and transportation within local productive systems and to integrate ICT solutions in transport and logistic services; - Fine tuning and testing the proposed solutions on the participating local SMEs systems pinpointing organisation and management models for transport services and local platforms; - Promoting and diffusing logistic culture in local SMEs systems creating relation and information networks; - Exchanging best practices and experiences, diffusing the awareness of the logistic leverage importance for gaining SMEs’ long term competitiveness; - Improving industrial relations among the participating CADSES countries. Becoming a "network of competence" which can provide SMEs advice and support on innovative logistic services implementation and development; as regards this objective it will be examined to establish a "virtual logistic observatory" for methods, approaches and methodology for organisation and management of local transport and logistic services.