Here is Francesco Parisi pictured here with his son, Matteo attending a Munich Air Cargo Europe event.
     Francesco Parisi Casa di Spedizioni S.p.A. is a Shipping and Freight Forwarding Group of Companies established in Trieste and operating in Central Europe since 1807.
     The Trieste-based freight forwarder has been a regular at transport logistic exhibitions Air Cargo Europe for many years.
     In fact Francesco Parisi, assisted by his sons Tomaso and Matteo, manages the most historic forwarding company in Italy, now in its eighth generation as a family business.
     On January 1, 1807 while Napoleon was busy attempting to take over the world and was situate at the Castle of Finckenstein in East Prussia, in Trieste the first Francesco Parisi, opened a shipping company in search of new outlets, coming from Rovereto, IT, in which the silk-spinning family business was suffering.
     Within the continental Austro-Hungarian Empire, Trieste was rapidly developing its new great harbor, attracting initiatives and businesses from the Slavic, German and Italian provinces, without forgetting the Greeks, Egyptians and Turks, all flocking to the new hub.
     Trieste is closer to the Ukrainian border than it is to Naples and sits at the same distance from Turin as Munich, Vienna and Budapest.
     This explains the prevailing interest of Trieste for central European traffic.
Fast forward to 2025, little wonder that an evening spent in Munich at Air Cargo Europe with Francesco Parisi in 2025 at Tuesday evening's reception at Hall B3, Stand 103-204 offered the rare opportunity to open up an overflowing amount of information, ideas and plans for the future from a man who has continued an incredible 400-hundred year plus traditional freight forwarder family business, whilst also serving as President at FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (2013-15) and leaning along the way lending expertise at leading European logistics organizations.
     Did you miss the reception?
     Well, as history in the case of Parisi seems to repeat itself, wait for the next Air Cargo Europe, or better still maybe jump over and greet Parisi today.
GDA