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Tuscany, for centuries in the future

Logistics

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You know • How important it can be to find new solutions and market opportunities in the logistics sector.

• How significant it can be to find a new market or partner in the areas of “smart mobility” and “sustainable urban mobility” to set up innovative projects in the sector.

• The importance of investing in a territory that makes intermodality the lever to reduce consumption, improve efficiency and develop business growing in a sustainable way.

in Tuscany you can!

• Settle in a central position with respect to Europe, Italy and the Mediterranean Sea. A strategic gateway for 500 million consumers across the EU and 270 million in North Africa and the Middle East. It is the main artery connecting southern Europe to central and eastern Europe and crossing Tuscany: halfway between Rome and Milan.

• Operate on 3 ports (Carrara, Piombino and Livorno) with direct connections to the 10 main Mediterranean ports, a network of about 500 km of highways and 1,400 km of railways connecting the Region to the main Italian cities. Tuscany serves over 40 international destinations thanks to 2 integrated international airports (Firenze and Pisa).

• Rely on a mechanical and technological sector of great experience and tradition in the railway and rail transport sector and in the production of traction systems and motor on rubber.

• Have access to a new specialized platform of 120,000 square meters, dedicated to the pharmaceutical sector: the Tuscany Pharma Valley. From 2021 it will offer stateof-the-art services and handling to improve logistics for the import and export of medicines and raw materials.

Since • Tuscany is among the regions with the largest investments in smart mobility and components, and innovative systems for electric mobility with a value, compared to the European average, 232% and 169% higher (Revealed Comparative Advantage Index).

• Investing in Tuscany means ensuring geographical proximity to customers located everywhere in Italy with easy and direct access to more than 75% of the Italian market (within a range of 400 km).

• The weight of Tuscany on the Italian commercial port system is growing, with 44,973,226 tons of goods handled in 2019 with a +2% (third consecutive year of growth) - Alto Tirreno Port Authority data.

• Several EU-funded projects in Tuscany focus on strengthening intermodality and moving road traffic to a more efficient rail system at increased average transport speeds.

• Tuscan exports in 2019 grew by +15.6 % (Istat data), making it one of the most dynamic regions in the country and stimulating demand for increasingly advanced and efficient logistics services.

excellence grows up Since Tuscany is ranked the fourth region of Europe of the Future 2020/2021 for its attractive potential (Financial Times, February 2020), and it is one of the natural places of settlement of new initiatives and productive activities in the sector from all over the world. A highly specialized landscape that counts one of the biggest international players in handling and transport:

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in a land where The high concentration of production and research settlements guarantees a favourable context to inclusion in value chains and activation of partnerships between companies. Tuscany is studded with a widespread network of competence centres, production plants and advanced research and development facilities, some of them among the first in the world. All at the service of entrepreneurs and operators active in the sector, from whatever country they come from, whatever their size is, regardless of their level of maturation. A widespread and extensive distribution with some points of natural concentration where affinities, complementarity and integration of the various subjects, including service networks, have given rise to specific clusters.

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In particular, as regards the most advanced frontier of development and leading models of sustainable mobility and of components and systems for electric mobility, Tuscany is above the European average, qualifying itself as a territory of extreme interest and favour to start innovative entrepreneurial initiatives.

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Making it one of the best European and global destinations to invest in research and development and in service and production activities.

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The main economic indicators confirm the competitive positioning of the territory, both in the national and international context.

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In such an articulated and diverse sector, Tuscany is a global strategic destination for some key operational functions, for which it is particularly organized and structured. Tuscany offers among the best conditions in Europe and an important added value to companies and entrepreneurial initiatives that intend to develop R&D activities, access to advanced resources and infrastructure of Logistics and specialized Manufacturing. More precisely:

Research & Development For your R&D initiatives, Tuscany offers a network of about 50 laboratories for technology transfer of considerable technical-scientific consistency and well distributed throughout the territory: 3 joint University-Enterprise laboratories, 20 at CNR, 14 at UNIFI, UNPI and UNISI, 2 at CPR, in addition to private laboratories: 6 at EL.EN. Group and 5 at Selex Galileo. More specifically:

• The University Pole of Logistics Systems of Livorno www.polologistica.unipi.it is the Service Centre of the University of Pisa for university-level training in the professions of the sector, and the development of scientific research and innovation in the logistics field. It trains graduates able to design, manage and evaluate infrastructures and logistics and transport services and professionals specialized in the management or design of logistics systems and supply chain. The Municipality of Livorno, the Livorno Foundation and the Port Authority of Livorno are supporters and promoters of this pole.

Business Services Furthermore, for the service functions of wider scope, the Research and Enterprise Centre of the CNR in Florence provides about 500 researchers in the CNR Research Area in Sesto Fiorentino and another 100 researchers in other institutes in other city locations.

• Port of Livorno: a First Class port of the European Ten-T Core network, it is one of the largest seaports in Italy and the Mediterranean, with an annual traffic capacity of about 30 million tons of goods and 600,000 TEU.

• Port of Piombino: total area of 300,000 square meters.

Italy’s third-largest passenger port with 3 million passengers per year.

• Pisa Cargo Village Airport: cargo infrastructure dedicated exclusively to the air cargo sector and Tuscan cargo operators, built with state-of-the-art storage and assistance systems and in compliance with safety standards. The Italian regions with the highest industrial density and with the highest import-export flows (Piedmont, Lombardy, Veneto, Emilia Romagna and Lazio) and the most important European production centres are located sess than 5 hours by car.

• Polo di Innovazione of Navacchio (www. polotecnologico.it) offers scouting, networking, investor research, call and funding, internationalization training and commercial accompaniment to logistics companies.

• Livorno Freight Village (Amerigo Vespucci): is a logistic platform able to integrate modern facilities and cuttingedge technology with all modes of transport: trucks, ships, trains.

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Activities Automotive

Warehouses for wine storage Warehouses for storage Cellulose and timber Cells for emptying and food storage (fruit) Container storage and repair Sea Motoraw Terminal

• Prato Freight Village (Central Logistic Park of Tuscany): is a complex of facilities and services that aim to promote international trade of goods, located in the centre of the large urban area of Florence and Prato. Thanks to this modern logistics platform it is possible to have direct access to the Mediterranean markets, Northern Europe and then Russia, China, Kazakhstan and the Middle East.

It is currently a strategic facility within the Scandinavian Mediterranean TEN-T Core Network fast corridor.

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Forestry Carabinieri (Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari, Forestali) Agecontrol (Ministero delle Politiche Agricole, Alimentari, Forestali)

• Logistic Park: Arezzo (Arezzo Logistic Park); Chiusi, province of Siena (Logistic Intermodal Centre).

• Truck Village: a project that proposes itself as an accumulation lung for the vehicles that have to embark at the port of Livorno, which is only 5 km away, offering an information service that allows the truck driver to reach the embarkation only near the embarkation time. It allows lorries carrying out their logistic activities at the freight village and the port to stop in a safe place during short periods of inactivity.

• In 2021 will open the Tuscany Pharma Valley, the automatic logistics platform with high technological integration specifically conceived and designed to serve the pharmaceutical industry. The investment is aimed at equipping an area of 125,000 square meters, in which there will be 21,000 square meters of warehouses, with temperature-controlled environments, suitable for the storage of pharmaceuticals, with 8 loading and freight transport areas in addition to about 6,000 square meters of offices. Storage capacity is estimated at 38,000 initial pallets, of which three-quarters can maintain temperatures between 15 and 25 degrees Celsius and a quarter between 2 and 8 degrees Celsius. Unique at national level and among the few at European level, it is an important hub for the development of logistics activities and private investment in the field of specialised handling.

• Alto Tirreno Port System Authority www.portialtotirreno.it is the managing and coordinating authority for the port activities of the main Tuscan port yards. In addition to administrative and traffic functions, it provides companies with professional training services, technological and organizational innovation, inter-sector integration with port logistics users, access to European co-financing for sector projects.

• Strengthening of the Mediterranean corridor for the Balkans: the integration and completion of the existing network is planned, with a branch of the Mediterranean corridor, based on relations between the western Mediterranean regions (Spanish ports) and the Upper Tyrrhenian region (Port of Livorno), developing the highways of the sea and port infrastructure for a greater connection with North Africa.

• In 2014-2020, 23 billion euros has been distributed to further improve Tuscany’s logistics system.

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Logistics With 75% of the Italian market less than 400 km away, and a dense network of iron and rubber infrastructure for fluid logistics of people and products, Tuscany ranks among the main logistical nodes of the country. In addition, the presence of three seaports, including the Livorno platform (one of the best performing and most integrated at European level), facilitates connections with the rest of the world and with the rest of Europe. In particular, it allows a substantial saving of time to and from South East Asia and immediate access the main European corridors.

Manufacturing • Tuscany can be considered for the logistics industry as a competitive laboratory, where new forms of collaboration between companies and the research system for the development of highly innovative products, in particular towards the new frontiers of mobility and transport, are being experimented and developed.

• Being able to count on top-level industrial districts, Tuscany offers in the first place an internal market of extreme interest for the handling and shipping sector.

• Finally, the region benefits from a sector of transport and logistics services and technologies strongly projected towards the international dimension and supported by a highly competitive and efficient training and procurement system.

Motorways

Rail Infrastructure

Motorways provide good transports links througout Italy:

An execellent, rapid rail link system guaranteeing:

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2 key north-south motorway axes (the A1-E35 Milano-Roma and the A12-E80 Genova-Livorno)

50 daily links between Florence and Rome (1 hour 31 min)

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24 daily links between Florence and Milan (1 hour 35 min)

1 east-west motorway (A11-E76-Viareggio-Pistoia)

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17 daily links between Florence and Venice (2 hour 5 min)

Ports 2 commercial ports in Livorno (7th Italian port, 6th for cointaner traffic serving all the major ports in the world) and Piobino, in close proximity to other major Italian ports.

Airports 2 major international airports, Pisa and Florence, for passengers and freight, with numerous daily flights to major italian and Europen cities.

You know, in Tuscany you can!

Since excellence grows up in a land where first-class standards suit your needs.

Tuscany, for centuries in the future.

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