The 3-day GIS 2021 opens at Piacenza Expo, attracting over 400 exhibitors

Born in 2008 thanks to the initiative of a group of professionals, the GIS reaches its eighth edition with 400 exhibitors. In the frame of Piacenza Expo, the largest European event dedicated to the lifting of materials sector, to work at height, to industrial and port handling and to exceptional transports kicks off. The cardinal points of the edition will be innovation, safety, sustainability and post-pandemic recovery. At the cutting of the ribbon, the vice-mayor of Piacenza, Elena Baio expressed great satisfaction for the opening of the works: «Coming from the street, my heart was beating. The fair, with its over 400 exhibitors, I believe will leave its mark! In Piacenza, logistics has always been important “, added Baio,” but it is above all a quality logistics. Our city has a long-standing tradition in the lifting sector, an activity that has always been carried out in the name of safety. An important issue on which we will have to work also at the government level “. The conference” Terminalism and Logistics, between energy challenges and technological innovations “, which sees the President of Assologistica Umberto Ruggerone, the Director, among the main speakers. of the Unione Interporti Riuniti Marco Spinedi, the Director of Assiterminal Alessandro Ferrari, the Managing Director of Vsl Club Fabrizio Vettosi, and the President of Saimare Bartolomeo Giachino. Fabio Potestà, Director of Mediapoint & Exhibitions, comments on the first day of the fair: “on the opening day of GIS 2021 we exceeded the threshold of 4000 visitors and I see considerable satisfaction from the exhibitors as well. This leads me to think that there are all the elements for an excellent success of this year’s event. I would also like to underline the three fundamental themes of this eighth edition of the Italian days of lifting and exceptional transport – continues Potestà – and it is about safety, central element in the light of recent events, innovation and recovery after the pandemic. “” The GIS – concludes the Director of Mediapoint & Exhibitions – is growing and has always been, just as well cared for plants tend upwards. let’s try to be good gardeners. ”For the return in the presence of the exhibition, the more than 400 exhibitors of the 2021 edition will have 41 thousand me three paintings of the Piacenza exhibition center to exhibit the new models of mobile cranes, telescopic handlers, aerial platforms, forklifts, trailers. In this regard, the sole president of Piacenza Expo, Giuseppe Cavalli, spoke: “Satisfaction not only economic-financial, but above all social”, explained Cavalli, “we finally saw the people who looked into each other’s eyes and shook hands. Finally we have seen entrepreneurs conclude business and plan initiatives … This fair sees the entrepreneurs of Piacenza as great protagonists. Entrepreneurs who have been participating for years and have believed in it “.