CIRCLE: “Automation, integration and interoperability along the global Door-To-Door logistic chain: Building transport optimization on International Fast Trade Lanes” was the title of the speech at the 5th Med Ports in Barcelona held by Alexio Picco - Circle Business Development and Funding Director.
Alexio Picco - Circle Business Development and Funding Director
Alexio Picco - Circle Business Development and Funding Director
The Italian consulting company specialized in integrated and interoperable IT solutions streamlining and digitalizing the Door-To-Door Supply Chain, highlighted yesterday the big opportunities of the process optimization in the Med Area. Circle boasts a deep knowledge of the Iberian Peninsula, having a paramount role in several EU-funded projects, and plays as advisor at different levels so far with a long lasting presence in the marketplace of Oporto (Portugal) through a strong partnership with the local company Magellan. Circle gave its presentation yesterday in Barcelona during the 5th Med Ports Exhibition and Conference (25th-27th October). The Italian company provides process&management consulting services, technological solutions and digital marketing services for transport and logistics, and, through MILOS® software platform, offers an innovative solution for the optimization of any kind of cargo transport. During his opening speech of the afternoon session entitled “International Logistics and Supply Chain: What Role Could Mediterranean Ports Play for an Integrated Strategy, Successful Outcome” - Circle’s Business Development and Funding Director - Alexio Picco underlined the opportunities coming from process optimization and increasing ‘dematerialization’. Thanks to the documents and procedures’ digitalization, Mediterranean Countries have indeed the chance to build International Fast Trade Lanes with NON-EU Countries, providing new services, reducing administrative burdens, while Customs procedures are simplified becoming drastically less time consuming along the whole Door-To-Door supply chain. Circle’s Business Development and Funding Director Picco presented then the Log@Sea network, a strategic partnership where Circle, IB and Aitek combine the three companies’ respective experiences and know-how acquired in the fields of marine services, road and rail traffic management systems, gate automation and tracking & tracing services. Particularly, Log@Sea’s solutions offer to the port communities (Port Authorities, Terminal Operators, Shippers) technological tools for a full integration with Terminal Operating System and Port Community System, for the gate automation process, for rail operations management inside logistics terminals, and for the rail activities’ planning. In addition, Log@Sea proposes IT solutions aiming at tracking and tracing goods along intermodal corridors thanks to the Corridor Management Platform, integrating different IoT solutions and exploiting innovative Customs procedures. Circle boasts a deep knowledge of the Iberian Peninsula, having a paramount role in several EU-funded projects, and plays as advisor at different levels so far with a long lasting presence in the marketplace of Oporto (Portugal) through a strong partnership with the local company Magellan. Circle is currently supporting APDL (Administração dos Portos do Douro, Leixões e Viana do Castelo) to develop the Douro Inland Waterway 2020 project, which aims at building up a network of technologies for inland navigation of Douro river (flowing into Oporto), and is committed as a strategic partner to Synchro-NET with main Spanish transport companies (DHL Supply Chain Spain is the project coordinator). Synchro-NET project will permit to develop the IT platform Eco-NET, a new tool for the automatic optimization of multimodal routes allowing the introduction of interesting innovations in transport and logistics field, bringing significant advantages to all the supply chain stakeholders.