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Keystone has started: the European project will improve controls in the logistics supply chain through digital technologies.
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December 6, 2023
Meetings between public authorities and logistics operators of the European project KEYSTONE have started, in order to identify the problems and needs of compliance checks related to cross-border road freight transport. Meetings aim at simplifying and improving controls through the creation of a digital ecosystem capable of enabling a secure and controlled information exchange on the transport of goods.
At the end of November, important representatives of institutions and companies sat down at the table at the headquarters of CIM SpA: Gianfranco De Angelis of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Alessandra Faranda Cordella, Police Commissioner of Novara and Province, Davide Tanzarella, Director of the Customs and Monopolies Agency of Novara, Commissioner Fabio Zampaglione of the Judicial Police of Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta, Anne Guèrin, Terminal Manager Combiconnect Srl of the Hupac group, Pietro Rossi of MOVE International, Aldo Croci, IT Director of Hupac SA, and Matteo Apollonio, Commercial Director of DPA Group SpA.
Several useful elements arose during the discussion between actors that have to deal with cross-border control problems every day. “The discussion – Sabino Metta, KEYSTONE project manager for Cefriel says – highlighted the need to trace, monitor, and reconstruct the itineraries of goods, vehicles, and drivers that cross different European countries”.
“Public authorities and logistics companies at this round table – Massimo Arnese, KEYSTONE project manager for CIM says – require the KEYSTONE project to address future activities in the creation of interoperable and immediately usable digital tools and flows”. The opportunity to access different databases, in a timely and reliable manner, would improve the quality of controls by ensuring higher levels of safety and the opposition to the organized crime.
An effective and reliable compliance monitoring and tracking with EU road transport legislation will be enabled only by strict compliance checks that imply the collection, assessment, and analysis of a series of data related to the driver, the vehicle, the operator, the cargo and the type of transport. That’s the reason why the KEYSTONE project – co-funded with over three million euros by the European Commission and the UK Government (UKRI) – aims at identifying the types of data to be securely connected in order to facilitate public authorities and logistics operators.
The KEYSTONE project consortium is committed to collecting the requirements and needs of all the types of stakeholders that are potentially interested in these issues. Therefore, the project generated a survey to collect the requirements and obstacles that currently affect cross-border controls implemented by the Supervisory Authority. The survey is anonymous (no personal data will be collected) and it is also open to all the people that want to stay informed and/or concretely participate in the project activities to address work results in a timely and tangible way.
Should you be interested, the survey can be reached at the following address: https://keystone.cefriel.com/survey
