On September 25, 2025, the President of EUROPLATFORMS, Alberto Milotti, accompanied by General Secretary 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 representatives from leading organisations. 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, representing important infrastructures of Europe’s multimodal network.
