Piedmont is the closest Italian region to our Barcelona hub — Turin sits about 960 km away, nearer than Milan — and it is the first major destination a trailer reaches after Ventimiglia. LTL groupage runs 3-4 working days on three weekly departures.
LTL groupage transit
3-4 days
Corridor departures
3×/week
via the Spain–Italy corridor
Road distance from our Barcelona hub
~960 km
Border crossing
La Jonquera · Ventimiglia
Postal codes covered
It is also, measured properly, Italy's automotive-components region rather than merely its historic car region. Piedmont hosted 717 registered component-maker headquarters in 2024, 33.6% of the national total and more than Lombardy's 27.0%, generating EUR 19.881 billion of automotive turnover with 59,682 people employed. The concentration is sharpest in the high-value tiers: the region holds 45% of Italy's system integrators and module suppliers, and roughly half of all Italian automotive engineering and design firms. Both turnover and headcount fell in 2024, by 5.6% and 2.4%, so this is a mature base under pressure rather than a growth story, and the inbound component flow reflects that.
Aerospace is the second pillar and is genuinely national-scale: Piedmont accounted for 8,304 of roughly 40,000 Italian employees in aircraft and spacecraft manufacturing, the largest share of any region at 20.2%. Leonardo employed just under 4,800 people across its Turin, Caselle and Cameri sites at the start of 2025, and Thales Alenia Space runs its group centre for space exploration at Turin.
Spain matters more here than the national picture suggests. Piedmont exported EUR 4,018,793,031 to Spain in 2025, up 11.2% and 6.5% of all regional exports, making Spain the region's fourth-largest destination worldwide and third within the EU behind France and Germany. The direction of travel is the interesting part: in 2024, when total Piedmont exports fell 4.9%, the Spain flow held flat. Novara province took that further, with Spain becoming its third market in 2025 at EUR 542.1 million, up 29.0%.
Torino, Novara, Alessandria, Cuneo and Asti cover the region. Turin carries the automotive and aerospace volume, Novara sits on the A4 with the region's largest intermodal terminal, and Cuneo and Asti anchor the food and wine flows.
Torino
Novara
Alessandria
Cuneo
Asti
The route into Piedmont clears La Jonquera, follows the French Mediterranean motorways to Ventimiglia and enters Italy on the A10, reaching Turin at roughly 960 km — the shortest Italian leg we run. Deconsolidation happens against a well-built terminal estate: CIM Novara covers 152,000 m2, states a capacity of up to thirteen train pairs a day and sits about 100 metres from the A4 at Novara Est, while SITO at Orbassano outside Turin publishes a three-million-square-metre site including 900,000 m2 of operator warehousing and 8 km of rail sidings, with Rivalta Scrivia and the Domo2 yard completing the four terminals the regional chamber recognises. Piedmont is also where Italy's Alpine freight gateway sits, and although our own routing is the coastal one through Ventimiglia, the Frejus tunnel shapes everything else moving through the region: it carried 1,085,427 heavy vehicles in 2025, roughly 45% of all its transits, gained a second tube in service from 1 August 2025, and has excluded Euro 3 and Euro 4 heavy vehicles since 1 October 2020, with 2026 single-trip tolls of EUR 204.80 for a two-axle heavy vehicle and EUR 411.60 for three axles or more. Inside the region, diesel goods vehicles of Euro 0 to Euro 2 are banned around the clock across 76 municipalities, and between 15 September and 15 April an air-quality alert system stops Euro 3 and 4 diesel at orange level and Euro 5 as well at red.
Get a quote →The component-maker base around Turin maps to our automotive service, the aerospace and precision-engineering cluster to industrial machinery and technology, and the Langhe and Monferrato wine districts in Cuneo and Asti to wine and beverages and food and beverage. Chemicals, construction materials, furniture and e-commerce restocking run across the region.
Turin sits about 960 km from our Barcelona hub and LTL groupage delivers in 3-4 working days on three departures a week. It is the shortest Italian leg we run — Turin is closer to Barcelona than Milan is — and freight enters Italy at Ventimiglia on the A10.
Spain was Piedmont's fourth-largest export destination worldwide in 2025 and third within the EU, taking EUR 4.02 billion or 6.5% of regional exports, up 11.2%. It also proved resilient: in 2024, when Piedmont's total exports fell 4.9%, the Spain flow was flat.
Not for our scheduled service — we route through Ventimiglia on the coast, not over the Alps. It is worth knowing because it governs much of the other freight in the region: Frejus carried over a million heavy vehicles in 2025, has excluded Euro 3 and Euro 4 lorries since October 2020, and charges from EUR 204.80 a single trip in 2026.
CAP prefixes 10, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 28 — Torino, Cuneo, Vercelli and Biella, Asti, Alessandria and Novara with Verbano-Cusio-Ossola. Any postcode under those prefixes prices as standard Piedmont coverage.
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