On September 25, 2025, the President of EUROPLATFORMS, Alberto Milotti, accompanied by Secretary General Andrea Ballarin, participated in the Multimodal Eurosur conference in Madrid.
The meeting provided an important forum to deepen discussions on the drivers of multimodal transport, such as infrastructure development, fiscal and investment incentives, regulatory frameworks and the Combined Transport for Europe initiative (CT4EU), promoted by UIRR. The conference gathered public and private stakeholders to align priorities and identify practical measures to accelerate modal shift and improve cross-border freight flows.
Europlatforms took part in the roundtable “Infraestructuras para el desarrollo de la Multimodalidad”, alongside Antonio Nabo Martins from APAT – Associação dos Transitários de Portugal (Freight Forwarders Association of Portugal), hashtag#JavierAlvarez of the ARAGÓN PLATAFORMA LOGÍSTICA S.A.U. Luis Moreno of ADIF and Tristan Ziegler from NOVATRANS and GREENMODAL TRANSPORT. The discussion addressed operational bottlenecks and strategic levers, from terminal capacity and rail–port connections to planning instruments that enable scalable combined-transport services.
During the exchange, key issues were emphasized by the President, notably the entry into force of the new TEN-T Regulation and the related requirement for enhanced national planning. He also referenced recent results from the freight-villages ranking produced by DGG, which highlighted several Spanish hubs among the top European nodes. In particular, Plaza ranked at the 4th place, Salamanca at the 28th, Badajoz at the 40th and Toledo at the 50th, representing important infrastructures of Europe’s multimodal network among more than 200 freight villages.
