FERCAM Magazine #6_2020 ENG

NE/BZ0226/2008
N° 6 Year 3 Summer 2020
Business Continuity:
FERCAM’s new action plan for
clients and stakeholders
pag. 3 pag. 5
pagg. 8-9
“Business Continuity” is FERCAM’s
new action plan for clients and
stakeholders
FERCAM launches an alternative
service for full loads, which responds
to emergency needs
The commitment to italian art of
FERCAM Fine art

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Dear readers, here we are with the sixth issue of
the quarterly FERCAM Magazine, a periodical dedicated
to the world of transport and logistics of the FERCAM
Group.
This issue (which has been delayed compared to
the usual schedule, due to the standstill caused by the
pandemic) opens with a presentation of our “Business
Continuity” strategy, implemented to further improve the
quality of services to our customers.
This is followed by a few comments on the
long-standing problem of the free movement of people
and goods across Europe and then an article dedicated to
the launch of the China-Europe “ all road”, which reduces
the time needed to transport goods at competitive costs.
This is followed by a few comments on the
long-standing problem of the free movement of people
and goods across Europe and then an article dedicated to
the launch of the China-Europe “ all road”, which reduces
the time needed to transport goods at competitive costs.
As editor-in-chief of FERCAM Magazine, I look
forward to direct contact with readers in order to listen
to their suggestions to improve the FERCAM Group’s
services and customer satisfaction.
Happy reading
In 2019 FERCAM decided to undertake a new project in the
field of business continuity. The objective is to increase the resilience
and responsiveness of the organization, to protect the interests of
stakeholders, while reducing risks and consequences. Moreover, it also
aims to demonstrate the capacity to keep our business activity stable,
even in the face of potentially disruptive events.
What is “Business Continuity”
Business continuity management refers to the capacity of the
company to pursue its business objectives even when faced with
adverse circumstances, limiting inefficiencies as much as possible
and maintaining its normal operations. It is a process through which a
company:
• identifies potential threats that it could face
• assesses what their impact on the business could be
• defines the necessary countermeasures and resources (human,
technological, economic) to be allocated
• maintains and develops this capacity over time
The evolution of the project in FERCAM
Andrea Boninsegna
The development of a “Business Continuity” strategy and its
application in FERCAM has taken place through several progressive
stages
Phase 1 - Operation Risk Identification
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As a first step, a workshop was organized involving the managers
of the different operational areas. First of all, it was intended to involve
all business areas responsible for the provision of services in the project,
in order to circulate unambiguous information about objectives and
methodologies. Secondly, the perception of the level of risks related to
the continuity of production or service delivery activities was deepened
through a dialogue between the company offices involved in operational
management and with management. Lastly, it provided an opportunity
to highlight the issues that were already effectively monitored and those

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Business Continuity
FERCAM’s new action plan for clients
and stakeholders
where it would be appropriate to examine in greater
depth.
Phase 2 – Business Impact Analysis
The second phase consisted of the
identification of critical issues related to specific
processes, suppliers and customers, and the
assessment of the impact of the risks on the
company’s business, with reference to the
processes operated at managerial level. A Business Continuity Manager
was also appointed.
According to the methodology, this phase of Business Impact
Analysis provides important information on production processes
essential for the company and risks for business continuity that the
company may face. This initial data is followed by an assessment of
the effects that, over time, would result from the failure to restore
operational activities, supported by the identification of significant
customers and suppliers and the interdependencies that must be met. In
addition, an order of priority is drawn up for the recovery of operational
activities and the time horizon for the activation of measures in response
to the emergency was defined. Finally, an agreement was reached on the
minimum conditions that must necessarily be guaranteed in order for
business activities to be carried out effectively.
Phase 3 – Drafting the Business Continuity Plan
FERCAM has therefore drawn up its own Business Continuity
plan, establishing a Business Continuity Team which has the task of
supporting the Business Continuity Manager in the management of any
critical events.
The Business Continuity Plan describes the company’s strategy
for reacting to a critical event and all the alternative procedures to ensure
operations, minimize the downtime of the most relevant business
processes and return to standard operating conditions with sustainable
costs.
It is thanks to this plan that we were able to successfully continue
our activities during the coronavirus emergency. Proving its importance
and effectiveness, our Business Continuity strategy will guide FERCAM’s
activities in case of new challenges, helping us to return to normal
operations in the shortest possible time. The plan will be subject to annual
testing in order to verify its effectiveness and need for improvement.

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Difficulties at the Brenner
border, exacerbated by the
Covid-19 emergency
But a constructive solution is possible: with an intervention of the European
Commission on transit regulations and with the commitment of logistics
companies to invest in environmentally sustainable modes of transport
The long queues formed due to the border locks.
The coronavirus emergency has unfortunately further aggravated
the already precarious state of the passage of goods through the Alpine
regions, Switzerland and, above all, Austria. The measures issued by the
latter in particular, a member country of the European Community and
a member of the Schengen agreements concerning the free transit of
persons and goods within the Euro area, pose important obstacles to
the economy of the countries that face the Scandinavian-Mediterranean
corridor, for which the Brenner section is a crucial link. The government of
the Tyrolean region, together with the government of Vienna, has in fact
added to the bans for transport using the most polluting trucks along with
other sectorial bans on the transit of goods, which have been followed by
the hourly quotas, i.e. the night-time traffic ban.
With the arrival of the coronavirus emergency, the controls on
trucks in transit have then necessarily extended to include the health of
drivers, further slowing down the passage of goods between North and
South Europe, creating complexity for traveling personnel and increasing
the risk for motorway users. In fact, the stops are causing long traffic
jams, which have recently reached peaks of over 80 km between Brenner
and Bolzano.
“We are working miracles not to block the Italian and European
economy, guaranteeing the maximum health security of our employees,
as required by the preventive measures that Italy has adopted, but we can
no longer fight against a country, Austria, which instrumentally adopts
measures that have nothing to do with the health emergency” - says
Thomas Baumgartner, President of Anita (the association of road haulage
and logistics companies of Confindustria) and FERCAM, in response to
the continuous slowdowns on the Austrian border, which are
exhausting drivers and companies.
The situation is very difficult to deal with, both owing
to the total impossibility to predict the actual travel time
of goods, and to the higher costs that stops and various
slowdowns cause to road haulage companies. “Now we are
really tired. We have suffered far too much from the unilateral
traffic restrictions by Austria, in the absolute indifference of
Europe, and we can no longer tolerate such behavior”, says
the President of Anita, who also calculated the costs of how
much the coronavirus emergency burdens the road haulage
system. “We estimate a considerable increase in the cost
for each truck stop, up to about 450 euros. Considering the
100,000 transits out of Italy every month, Italian exports will
incur an additional cost of over 50 million euros per month”.
Costs that the road haulage system will be called to support
directly, as it will be difficult to get this expense recognized
by the customers, thus worsening the already heavy financial
situation of companies in the industry.
In addition to the costs, the issue of the logistics of goods in and
of itself is neglected: the modern productive organization of companies
has greatly reduced warehousing in favor of punctual delivery of goods
and semi-finished products, often supplied to manufacturing companies
by other companies operating in production districts or in value chains.
Considering that the displacement of the goods through Europe happens
almost exclusively via road, if this circuit is interrupted or altered, the whole
productive chain is affected, with heavy repercussions on the costs and
the competitiveness of the Italian system. “Today 65% of Italian exports
go to Europe and most of this travels by road. The Tyrolean restrictions
on road transits on the Austrian Brenner route have a detrimental
effect on trade and, in particular, on specific production sectors in Italy
and Germany, which often work within a supply chain” - Baumgartner
points out. “It could shift freight traffic from road to rail, but unfortunately
the Brenner section is overloaded, making loading and delivery times
incompatible with the timing of the production chain and thus generating
higher operating costs for companies”.
Baumgartner would like to see a constructive solution for all parties
involved. On the one hand, the European Commission must restore the
free movement of goods and people within Austrian territory and on
the Brenner route in particular as soon as possible. On the other hand,
logistics companies are willing to move more goods from road to rail as
the latter becomes competitive, in addition to investing in road transport
with reduced environmental impact, as is already being done with Euro 6
and LNG-powered trucks, with the goal of hydrogen as soon as the new
vehicles become available.

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Europe-China “all road”
FERCAM launches an alternative service for full loads, which responds to
emergency needs
The coronavirus emergency has also
put the entire transport sector to and from
China under strain, forcing operators in the
sector to find alternative solutions to air and
ocean transport. This in particular to cope with
the increase in demand for critical, medical
and pharmaceutical sectors.
FERCAM has been active for many
years in transport to China, by air, ocean and
with its intermodal rail and road solution,
“Euro-Asian Landbridge”. A new service has
now been set up, entirely by road, connecting
all Chinese production sites with various
European and Italian destinations.
“In the face of a growing demand for
transport from China, where production has
gradually resumed in recent weeks - says
Hans Splendori, FERCAM’s FTL sales manager
- air freight rates have increased considerably,
also due to the scarce availability of cargo
planes and the considerable amount of work
accumulated during the last few weeks of the health emergency. The
intermodal service “Landbridge” records very long train reservation
times due to the limited availability of train operators operating this
service. Transport using maritime containers has a very long transit time,
which for certain types of product is inadequate”.
The new “ all road “ service launched by FERCAM is limited to
full loads of 20 tons and is intended in particular for the automotive,
electrocomponents and machinery sectors, as well as for the much
needed medical-healthcare products required throughout the European
market, which can now pass through safely without being subject to the
high risk of stops or seizures in transit countries.
In order to guarantee the maximum safety of the service, the
routes have been carefully identified and we make use of the cooperation
of local operators with proven experience and knowledge of the specific
features of the territory. All transports are however come with “all risk”
insurance.
The travel time of the “all road” transport service varies from 21
to 23 days depending on the time spent at the borders of the various
countries crossed. In addition to the reliability and safety of the service,
one of the main advantages of the “all road” alternative in the emergency
phases has been the considerable reduction in cost compared to air
transport.
“The full loads cross Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland and
arrive in Germany, where we take charge of them to proceed with
customs clearance once they reach
the country” - explains Splendori. “We
are very pleased to have been able to
identify this alternative solution, which
is feasible in a moment of serious
economic crisis and make it operational
in a very short time. To confirm the
need for an alternative to air and
ocean transport, many customers
have already confirmed their concrete
interest in the “all road” service from
China”.
For the traditional air and ocean
freight shipments, as well as for the
“Euro-Asian Landbridge” service,
FERCAM is operational from all major
ports, airports and railway terminals
that have resumed their activities after
the lockdown, in collaboration with
trustworthy correspondents on site.

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ITALIA
Some of the drinks from the General
Beverage “Io Bevo” line.
General Beverage
FERCAM has established a new partnership in the field of
distribution with the Pontremoli-based company specialized
in the supply of beverages to the catering industry
General Beverage is a company based in Pontremoli (MS) that
has been able to innovate the methods of supply and consumption of
beverages for organized catering, such as canteens, retirement homes,
hospitals, vacation villages, hotels, etc. aiming to enhance the excellence
of typical Italian products (regional specialties above all), while reducing
the environmental impact and volumes of goods handled.
“With the brand “Io Bevo” (which translates to “I drink”) we have
provided industry professionals with an innovative formula for the
management of beverage supply. For a fixed payment and a variable fee,
based on the number of meals supplied, General Beverage supplies both
the equipment for the distribution of beverages and the consumer product,
in unlimited quantities” - says Cesare Varoli, owner of the company.
“Thanks to the supply of specially developed dispensing equipment
and concentrated drinks, we have revolutionized distribution: the volume
and weight of the goods transported is reduced and consequently the
environmental impact is reduced. The concentrates are diluted by the
dispensing machines with microfiltered water, offering the end customer
a high-quality product”.
Does General Beverage oversee the entire supply chain of the
liquid component of the catering industry?
“In addition to the machinery that is made by external companies
according to our specific technical specifications, we produce all the fruit
concentrates directly, offering the customer various types of products,
hot and cold drinks, from regional specialties to health food items, such
as vegetable purées, homogenized meat, blended foods, cereal creams,
vegetable purées, regional and international dishes, fruit mousse and
desserts” - says Varoli. “All strictly produced in the Pontremoli headquarters
from where we send products throughout Italy and Europe to over 7,000
customers. Our catalog includes over 600 different products”.
What role does FERCAM play for General Beverage?
“We started working together at the beginning of the year, as
we wanted to introduce a new carrier for the distribution of consumer
products to customers in Central and Northern Italy, alongside our
traditional partner BRT. We are still in an experimental phase, which the
general closure of organized catering activities has not yet allowed us to
continue as we would like. The need of General Beverage is to ensure the
timely supply of the products ordered by customers, within a few hours
after receiving them: starting from their arrival in the morning, in the
afternoon the order will have already been processed, with delivery to
the final customer expected by the evening. Often this happens also on
Saturdays and Sundays since the consumption of the tourist sector grows
during the weekends”.
Is General Beverage’s market only domestic or does it also extend
abroad?
“We are also expanding to include foreign organized catering, with
the same operational methods tested in Italy. We are already present in
Spain, France, and Germany, where local products are added to the quality
Italian products and recipes. In this field, FERCAM could play an interesting
role, thanks to its widespread foreign network, but it is a development that
we have yet to define”.
How do you rate the services offered by FERCAM so far?
“It is a serious company, structured in many operational areas
and capable of providing a wide range of services to customers. We are
interested in our ability to deliver the products requested by customers
in a timely manner, ensuring delivery times, perhaps even providing
notice that deliveries are imminent. Another key issue is flexibility and the
ability to operate throughout the week, especially during vacation peaks,”
concludes Varoli.

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Tognana
Porcellane
A decades-long
collaboration with FERCAM
The Tognana headquarters in Treviso. Below, on the left, a FERCAM
truck at the loading door of the warehouse. Overview of the
Tognana warehouse. on the right.
The Tognana Porcellane SpA Group certainly occupies a leading
position in the market, offering its customers a wide range of products for
the home. In addition to the production of ceramic dishes and crockery,
there are also items for the table and the kitchen such as pots, cutlery,
glasses, tablecloths, as well as decorative ornaments.
Today, for its shipments, the Treviso-based company uses two
main operators: BRT and FERCAM. Collaboration with FERCAM has
been consolidated over the years, with the progressive evolution of
Tognana’s workload, increased following the acquisition of Artoni. “The
collaboration with FERCAM has always been positive (albeit with a brief
interruption, following which some details of the contract were redefined)
thanks above all to their ability to react to customer needs and to the
professionalism of the manager of the Treviso branch, Massimo Ghedin”
- says the plant manager, engineer Gaetano De Palma. “We have greatly
appreciated the company’s ability to improve some technical aspects of
the service, meeting the needs of Tognana, such as shipment tracking,
timing of responses and monthly monitoring of services to integrate
with internal company statistics”.
Tognana particularly appreciated FERCAM’s flexibility and
willingness to tailor its solutions to customer requirements. “Tognana
sometimes has to face unpredictable requests from consumers,
depending on the success of a given product. With the new ownership,
Gran Casa, of the Morosi family, Tognana has expanded its historical
reputation linked to the world of porcelain to other items for the home
and, above all, for the kitchen. For example, steel accessories such as
cookware, cutlery and furnishing elements have been added. FERCAM is
able to actively accompany us in responding to the changing demands of
our customers” - underlines De Palma.
De Palma tells us again: “Thanks to the collaboration with Mr.
Ghedin we were able to optimize the delivery schedule. Since we often
ask to carry out the service at odd times and with little notice, in the past
we had some hiccups and delays in the internal transfer between the
various company sites. But with experience we have achieved an optimal
balance and we are very satisfied”.
FERCAM operates the handling of goods in Italy for Tognana, while
almost everything that is directed abroad is managed by buyers with
their own carriers. In the future we aim to deepen and further develop
the already satisfactory collaboration between Tognana and FERCAM:
“We are now looking with great interest at IT developments for the
management of goods, as we would like to have an even more detailed
and timely picture of deliveries and returns on the Italian market. This
would allow us to unburden the internal office and to facilitate the flow
of delivery data in terms of productivity, in order to adapt it as soon as
possible to the evolution of the market” - concludes De Palma.

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Sopra e a fianco le immagini di alcune delicate fasi della movimentazione delle
12 statue.
FERCAM Fine Art:
winning flexibility
In Turin and Rome two exhibition projects that challenged the lockdown
In the beginning of 2020, which was affected by the coronavirus
pandemic and the regulations that forced the suspension of activities,
some of the projects in progress during the first months of the year have
been postponed.
“At the beginning
of the year our FERCAM
Fine Art centers were all
involved in particularly
From above, clockwise: the preparations for the staging of the exhibition
at Palazzo Barberini. On the opposite page, the poster of the “Incēnsum”
exhibition

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delicate projects” - notes the manager Chiara Prisco. “We were
undergoing an intense period, pursuing our qualitative and business
objectives with great determination. In spite of the stop in operations,
we were able to conclude some of the installations, postponing the
other events to a date to be defined. Completing an assignment at the
beginning of the health emergency was certainly a demonstration of the
level of expertise developed by our teams, adaptable to any need”.
A new special project sees the Fine Art team of Turin engaged in the
future organization of a precious exhibition: “Incēnsum”. The exhibition
was created thanks to Perfumum, a cultural association founded in Turin
in 2017, which aims to promote the culture of the sense of smell through
projects and programs of events, workshops, and exhibitions.
“The exhibition includes a set of loans from the Oriental Museum
and the Egyptian Museum of Turin. The nature of the items is very
interesting: the exhibition includes the packaging and transport of
precious and minute perfume burners from ancient times” - explains
Laura Giordano, head of the FERCAM Art office in Turin. “Even more so
than the economic value of the artistic goods, the historical value is high:
most of the objects packed and transported predate the dawn of the
Christian era. They tell the story of a world different from the one we
know and to which we are accustomed”.
The exhibition route also enjoys the presence of an important
international guest: the National Museum of Oman, which has lent
several goods belonging to the collection “The Incense Trade Route”. “ We
are talking about an aromatic and visual journey travelling for thousands
of kilometers, crossing deserts and mountains” - underlines Giordano. “A
story that weaves different eras, telling centuries of a secret story: the
trade of an ancient precious resin, frankincense”.
FERCAM’s experts will prepare the packaging, carefully studied,
and built to safely accommodate the nature of the goods and will arrange
the handling and preparation of this refined small collection.
In Rome on the other hand, FERCAM Fine Art is dedicating
itself to the exhibition “Orazio Borgianni, un genio inquieto nella Roma
di Caravaggio” (in English, “Orazio Borgianni, a restless genius in
Caravaggio’s Rome”), hosted by Palazzo Barberini, which includes an
intense itinerary among the artist’s most famous works..
“It is perhaps the first single artist exhibition dedicated to
the painter. Even if there are several foreign loans, some of the most
important works come from Palazzo Barberini itself” - says Daria Licata,
the project leader. It is certainly special, therefore, for the Museum to
have generated an exhibition theme that can show the public the delicate
artistic expression of Orazio Borgianni, who draws inspiration from the
Caravaggesque style”.
The technical teams of the Roman Fine Art centre have paid
attention to every
detail. The exhibition
rooms were filled with
cold light lamps, for
the condition reports
of the paintings, and
crates (double, single
or multiple) to protect
the paintings, waiting
for them to be unveiled
and set up. The
exhibition programs
were updated almost
daily, in order to adapt
to the changes in time
and shifts required.
As always, a detailed
program of transport
and accompaniment
was provided not
only for the paintings,
but also for those
responsible for the
collections, who
accompanied them.
Luana Lovisetto and Bianca Francini of FERCAM Rome have
been ready and available to supervise all import of artworks and for the
logistics of their escorts’ journeys, even though there were technical
difficulties. Due to the health emergency, the return of the exhibition
has also been postponed to November 2020. “We are happy about this,
because, in doing so, the public will be able to enjoy the exhibition of the
collection, in compliance with the new regulations”.

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Cantine Sgarzi Luigi
Wine company in the province of Bologna, which exports its
products all over the world
Now in its fourth generation, Cantine Sgarzi Luigi has maintained
the same great passion for viticulture that its founder carried in his heart.
Luigi Sgarzi inaugurated the first vineyards in 1933, producing wines in
the small winery of Castel San Pietro Terme, a small town in the province
of Bologna.
Today the company has evolved into a modern enterprise,
managed by his nephew Stefano Sgarzi, who works with his wife Nadia
Ancarani as an export manager and three of his four children. Anna, the
eldest daughter, manages the winery together with her father Stefano,
while Francesca is responsible for marketing and communication. Luigi
Leonardo, on the other hand, is an agronomist and takes care of the 140
hectares of vineyards (100 hectares between Castel San Pietro Terme
and Castel Guelfo in Emilia and another 40 organic hectares in Colle Moro
in the province of Chieti).
In addition to Sangiovese, Merlot, Albana, Chardonnay and
Trebbiano, in recent years the winery has focused on the grapes of
Grechetto Gentile, transformed according to the Charmat method into
Pignoletto DOC Spumante extra dry, a wine much appreciated in Russia
and China, which receives international recognition every year.
Even though it is family run, Cantina Sgarzi Luigi is decidedly
internationalized, with an export that reaches 99% of production and
reaches over 80 countries around the world, with its own sales points in
Mexico and China for a turnover that in 2019 reached 50 million euros.
The product catalog is extensive and diversified: from high quality
wine labels for restaurants and wine shops, to wine-based drinks
for large-scale distribution, with own brand and private labels. The
company also supplies must and bulk wines ready for bottling. Alongside
conventional and organic wines, Cantina Sgarzi Luigi also specializes in
the production of aromatized wine-based drinks and cocktails, as well as
being one of Europe’s leading producers of wine and wine-based drinks
in aluminum cans.
One of the best performing products of the company is the
sparkling wine in cans branded “Ciao” made from Glera grapes produced
according to the Charmat method exactly like sparkling wine in bottles.
The can packaging is particularly appreciated by young people and can
boast many advantages compared to glass bottles: it is light to transport,
shatterproof, recyclable, can be easily cooled, as well as being convenient
to use as a single portion of 187, 200 and 250 ml.
As for logistics, the company has recently built its own warehouse
equipped with two loading doors to increase the efficiency of product
shipping operations in the various countries of destination. In Europe,
the main target market is Germany, a reality that is served through
FERCAM’s transport services.
“FERCAM takes care of transport for us from our warehouse in
Oppeano to the Moselle area in Germany, where the logistics centers
of the large German distributors we serve are located - says Anna
Sgarzi. I got to know FERCAM in my previous work experience, where
I appreciated the quality of the service which I later proposed for the
family company’s activities focused on the German market”.
Other clients often directly instruct trustworthy carriers to
pick up goods from the Sgarzi Luigi warehouse. “For overseas exports
Above: the modern headquarters of the Sgarzi Luigi Winery in Castel San Pietro Terme.
Below: portrait of the Sgarzi family. From the left, Francesca, Anna, Nadia Ancarani, Irene,
Luigi Leonardo and Stefano Sgarzi.
to the Americas and the East we use other partners who have been
collaborating with the winery for many years - underlines Anna Sgarzi.
If market conditions allow us to grow further, however, we will evaluate
a different logistics structure. We would be inclined to strengthen our
collaboration with a company like FERCAM. We are satisfied with the
attention dedicated to meeting our needs and how the FERCAM team
has supported us during rare difficulties. If presence in the area of
Bologna is strengthened, we could consider expanding our collaboration
on the European and, perhaps, non-European markets”.

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Green
Nikola 3, the battery-powered HGV
Zero emission regional transport, waiting for hydrogen
fuel cell innovation
HGVs are on the road towards zero emissions environmental
sustainability, thanks to the alliance between Nikola, a company
founded by the American Trevor Milton, and Iveco, of the FCA group.
The agreement is aimed at bringing advanced electric cabin vehicles to
the European market (the typical long-nosed cabins remain confined to
American soil). The first will be battery-powered, but the launch of a new
fuel cell version, powered by hydrogen, is already planned.
Nikola will offer its leading expertise in the fuel cell industry and
its advanced technologies, as well as its revolutionary business model
of all-inclusive leasing, the industry’s first. Iveco and FPT Industrial will
contribute their engineering and manufacturing expertise to industrialize
fuel cell vehicles and electric batteries.
Iveco, FPT Industrial and Nikola have started developing the first
truck together: Nikola TRE, battery-powered, based on the new Iveco
“S-Way” platform, which will integrate Nikola’s heavy vehicle technology,
controls, and infotainment. The first test phase is scheduled for mid-
2020. Sales and service support of the Nikola TRE will be managed by
the extensive European network of Iveco dealers.
The Nikola TRE is a 4x2 unit for regional operations, with a range
of up to 400 km and dynamic performance equal to or greater than an
equivalent diesel model, thanks to the presence of a modular battery
system with a total capacity of up to 720 kWh, which can be customized
to suit different customer assignments. The electric motor will deliver
480 kW of continuous power with a peak torque of 1,800 Nm. The Nikola
TRE will also be available in 2 and 3 rigid axle versions, with total ground
mass from 18 to 26 tons for urban distribution and urban operations
within the municipality.
The Nikola TRE will be equipped with a new infotainment system
based on Nikola’s proprietary operating system, which integrates
infotainment and navigation functions, as well as controls for all vehicle
functions. The system includes functions such as climate control, mirror
adjustment, suspension height adjustment, 360° camera system,
navigation, Bluetooth audio system, general settings, and vehicle
diagnostic management.
Iveco, FPT Industrial and Nikola have adopted a modular approach
to the development of their electrical vehicle offer for the European
market, unique in the sector. Nikola’s fuel cells will be the starting
point for the design of the electric battery, so that the Nikola TRE BEV
(battery electric vehicle) can be converted to fuel cell technology. With
this approach, the partners are looking far ahead, starting today the
production of the two technologies to offer BEV and FCEV (fuel cell
electric vehicles) hydrogen powered vehicles in the coming years as this
technology will be implemented in Europe. This will result in zero impact
electric traction even over long distances, with recharging times similar
to those of refueling with traditional fuels.
Some images of the new Nikola TRE: above,
the front; the driver’s seat in the center;
under the integral fairing of the vehicle.
FERCAM, a company that has always been attentive to
technological evolution and to the reduction of the environmental
impact of its activities, has already adopted the first Nikola TRE in order
to introduce it experimentally in its fleet for regional operations.

Clean,
smarter logistics.
FERCAM SpA
Bolzano
39100 Bolzano - Via Marie Curie, 2
Tel. 0471 530000 - Fax 0471 530512
info@fercam.com - www.fercam.com