A delegation of the customs administration of Syria has visited the port of Venice



A delegation of 20 leaders of Customs of Syria has visited the port of Venice with the objective to study the best practice of the Italian ports of call with which the Middle Eastern nation has above all puts up contacts and of the ports that they have invested very many in order to equip itself of computer science and computerized systems to the vanguard. The mission of the delegation includes also a visit to the port of Livorno.

The Venetian encounter is promoted by the head field Communitarian Customs, Maurizio Zincone, and financed from the program of support to the commerce of the EU commission. The Syrian delegation has met the Italian colleagues of the administrations that take care of security in the within of the Venetian portualità in order to illustrate in the various contexts - Italian and Syrian - the common problems of safety in the harbour operativity with particular reference to the contrast to the swindles and the risk managemet of the frontier.

In this Venice within it is the first Italian port to being itself endowed of a system "still fines agency" that, graces to an integrated computer science platform of Port Community of practical the customs ones and safety, can manage for way electronic all the documentation of the goods in export, before the ship touches the dock.

After the argument of the communitarian and national criteria that hold the risk analysis, the visit is continued with a demonstration of the operativity of the mobile scanner in equipment to the operating forces of safety in the Venetian port of call for the control of the trucks in arrival on the ferries goods and passengers, let alone of the situated fixed scanner to Marghera Port.

The visit makes followed also to the agreement which signed between the ports of Venice and Tartous that the implementation previews and the simplification of the customs policies to the aim to accelerate the harbour operations is in Syria that in Italy ( on 1° February 2010).

Emphasizing "more and more tightened the relationships between the Venetian port of call and the Syrian ports", the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Franco Sensini, have found that "the increase of the commercial exchanges represents today, and still more in future, an unquestionable opportunity for the port of Venice but, at the same time, he imposes new challenges under the profile of safety, the protection of the workers and the surrounding atmosphere, and under the profile of the prevention of criminal, terrorist actions or of the violation of the international norms of the commerce".

"The interchange between the port of Venice and Syria - Sensini has remembered - in 2010 has been pairs to 1.500 trailer (truck) and beyond 20 thousand teu (container), numbers destined to increase thanks to the positive course of the direct lines operated by Visemar Line and Sermar Line".