Italy MIT launches EUR 157m 'LogIN Business' PNRR grant for logistics digitalisation

Mechanism

MIT's Directorate-General for Ports, Logistics and Intermodality issued the "LogIN Business" call for proposals under PNRR sub-investment M3C2-I.2.1.3, financed through the EU's Next Generation-EU programme. The measure allocates EUR 157 million to at least 8,350 freight-transport and logistics enterprises (Italian or EU-based with an operating unit in Italy, classified under logistics/freight ATECO codes) for co-financing or de-minimis grants covering:

• Platforms/hardware for electronic interchange with the National Logistics

Platform (Piattaforma Logistica Nazionale, PLN) and with shippers/clients

• Document dematerialisation (eCMR) aligned with the national eFTI

(electronic Freight Transport Information) framework

• Advanced load-planning, route-optimisation and intermodal-interoperability

systems

• Staff training on the digital technologies being subsidised

Implementation runs through RAM S.p.A. (Rete Autostrade Mediterranee), MIT's in-house logistics company, which operates the application portal. Forty percent of resources are earmarked for the Mezzogiorno (Southern Italy) regions. Applications were due online by 17 September 2025.

GTA logs the EU state-aid clearance date of 24 June 2025 as the announcement; MIT's own news posting (2 September 2025) is the operative publication confirming scheme parameters and the application window, used here as effective_date.

Downstream implications

• Adds to the PNRR digital/logistics disbursement track alongside prior

Italian PNRR measures (transizione 5.0, EV incentive decree) — signals continued draw-down of Italy's Next Generation-EU allocation ahead of the 2026 PNRR completion deadline.

• Targets the same eFTI/PLN digital-logistics infrastructure the EU is

mandating bloc-wide, so acts as national co-funding for an EU regulatory requirement rather than a standalone industrial-policy initiative.

• Small individual severity (co-financing grants, not tariffs/controls) but

broad reach (8,350+ firms) — a diffuse SME-support action rather than a concentrated strategic bet.

Open questions

• Final disbursement totals and number of approved beneficiaries once the

application window (closed 17 Sep 2025) is adjudicated.

• Whether MIT issues a follow-on tranche of LogIN Business given demand

against the EUR 157m envelope.