(Finance) – Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena signed a 1.5 million euro loan, assisted by SACE’s Green Guarantee, in favour of Florentine Car Rental Program, important Tuscan company that has been operating in short and long-term rental for over thirty years. The loan, lasting 5 years, will serve to support Program Autonoleggio in improving its environmental performance through the purchase of new vehicles, mainly with hybrid, plug-in and electric engines. A new commitment to accompany the transition towards sustainable mobility, encouraging the use of low CO2 emission vehicles. An important objective for Program Autonoleggio, a company that has a fleet of around 6 thousand vehicles, including commercial vehicles and cars.
“Banks have a key role in directing and supporting business projects linked to economic, environmental and social sustainability – he commented Fausto Marcolini, director of Territorial Business and Private Tuscany North of Banca Mps –. The loan granted by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena to Program Autonoleggio for the renewal of its fleet of vehicles goes precisely in this direction and aims to guarantee transport systems capable of responding to customer needs, while simultaneously reducing the impacts on the environment. Thanks to the collaboration with SACE, the Bank continues its commitment to supporting Italian companies that want to grow and improve in a green logic”.
“Program has always stood out in the sector for its particular attention paid to environmental sustainability, both in relation to the rental fleet and corporate well-being – he states Patrizia Bacci, sole administrator of Program Autonoleggio –. This financing allows us to pursue the objective of reducing polluting emissions that we have set ourselves, encouraging the use by our customers of vehicles with green engines through long-term rental, which in addition to having a lower environmental impact also lead to to a reduction in management costs for company fleets”.
This operation falls within the scope of Green agreement between SACE and Banca Mps, in which SACE intervenes with a guarantee to cover financing intended both for large industrial reconversion projects and for SMEs that intend to reduce their environmental impact and start a sustainable transformation. SACE has a leading role in the Italian ecological transition and can issue Green guarantees on domestic projects capable of supporting the development of an economy with a lower environmental impact, integrating production cycles with low-emission technologies for the production of goods and services sustainable and promote initiatives aimed at encouraging the transition to a new mobility with lower polluting emissions.