Emilia-Romagna is the one Italian region on this corridor where the Spain trade is published as its own number rather than inferred from a national total. The region exported EUR 4,624 million of goods to Spain in 2025, up 7.2%, and imported EUR 3,643 million, up 15.7% — the fastest growth of any of its itemised euro-area partners. That makes Spain 5.5% of the region's exports and 7.1% of its imports, and leaves a goods surplus of roughly EUR 1.0 billion. Bologna sits about 1,150 km from our Barcelona hub, with LTL groupage on two weekly departures. Transit depends on the delivery zone — the table on this page gives it zone by zone, calculated from recorded planned or agreed dates.
The region is Italy's second-largest exporter after Lombardy, at EUR 84,254 million in 2025, and it earns that from manufacturing rather than from services: manufacturing alone generated EUR 47,081 million of gross value added in 2023, 14.2% of Italy's entire manufacturing GVA and 27% of the region's own economy.
The named clusters are the ones a groupage operator meets weekly. Automobili Lamborghini delivered 10,747 cars from Sant'Agata Bolognese in 2025 on EUR 3.20 billion of turnover. Packaging and processing machinery runs through Sacmi at Imola, which reported EUR 1,526 million of revenue and 4,912 employees, alongside IMA at Ozzano dell'Emilia and Coesia in Bologna. The Prosciutto di Parma consortium branded 6,750,000 hams in 2025 across 126 producing companies, on EUR 810 million of production value and EUR 315 million of exports.
The ceramic tile district is the one figure to read carefully. Italy's tile industry produced 390.9 million m2 in 2025 and exported 78% of it, and the district that does most of that work straddles Modena and Reggio Emilia — but the industry association publishes the national total without breaking the district out, so we quote the national figure and do not invent a regional share. What is separately documented is the freight consequence: 3.7 million tonnes of ceramic raw materials landed at the port of Ravenna in 2024, 49.4% of the sector's entire supply needs.
Main cities served
Bologna, Modena, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Piacenza and Rimini cover the region. Bologna anchors the logistics estate, Modena and Reggio the ceramic and Motor Valley freight, Parma the food chain, and Piacenza the distribution belt on the Milan side.
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Key industries on this lane
The Motor Valley plants and their supplier base map to our automotive service, the packaging-machinery cluster at Imola, Bologna and Ozzano to industrial machinery, and the Parma food chain to food and beverage and wine and beverages. Chemicals, pharmaceuticals, construction materials, furniture and e-commerce restocking run across the region.
Local Infrastructure & Logistics in Emilia-Romagna
The route into Emilia-Romagna clears La Jonquera and Ventimiglia, runs the A10 and the Milan orbital system, then drops onto the A1 for Bologna at roughly 1,150 km from our Barcelona hub. The region owns the densest freight infrastructure in Italy after Lombardy and it is worth being precise about what it does. The port of Ravenna handled 28,007,362 tonnes in 2025, up 9.6%, and is the only Emilia-Romagna port inside the national port-system network — but it is a bulk port: of 10.3 million tonnes of general cargo only 2.36 million moved in containers, against 212,421 TEU for the year. Interporto Bologna covers about 410 hectares, hosts 130 companies and over 6,000 employees, and is adding roughly 115,000 m2 of rail area with five 750 m tracks. The nine platforms of the regional ER.I.C. cluster terminalised 31,178 trains in 2021. None of that displaces the road: the region moved 248 million tonnes by road against 19.2 million by rail, which is the ratio that decides how our freight actually arrives. The constraint to plan around is the Bologna node, which Autostrade per l'Italia itself calls one of the most critical on the entire Italian motorway network, and the PAIR 2030 air-quality rules, which ban diesel up to Euro 4 inside built-up areas on weekdays through the winter season and extend to Euro 5 when emergency measures are triggered.
Postal codes covered
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Delivery zone
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Frequently asked
What is the transit time from Spain to Bologna?
Bologna sits about 1,150 km from our Barcelona hub and LTL groupage runs on two departures a week, entering Italy at Ventimiglia and reaching the region on the A1. Transit depends on the delivery zone — the table on this page gives it zone by zone, calculated from recorded planned or agreed dates.
How big is the Spain-Emilia-Romagna trade?
It is published at regional level, which is unusual. Emilia-Romagna exported EUR 4,624 million to Spain in 2025 and imported EUR 3,643 million, making Spain 5.5% of its exports and 7.1% of its imports. Imports from Spain grew 15.7% that year, faster than any of the region's other itemised euro-area partners.
Do you deliver into the port of Ravenna and Interporto Bologna?
Both are standard destinations. Ravenna moved 28 million tonnes in 2025 and is the region's only port inside the national port-system network, though it is overwhelmingly a bulk port rather than a container gateway. Interporto Bologna runs about 410 hectares with 130 resident companies and is currently expanding its rail area.
Which postcodes do you cover?
CAP prefixes 29, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 47 and 48 — Piacenza, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Ferrara, Forli-Cesena and Rimini, and Ravenna. Any postcode under those prefixes prices as standard Emilia-Romagna coverage.
