The ports of Venice and Santos will collaborate in order to increase the import-export between Italy and Brazil



, Today in the margin of the seminary "Brazil-Italy: harbour cooperation and organized logistic integration" near the Brazilian Embassy to Rome, the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Franco Sensini, have met Josè Roberto Correia Serra, president of the Companhia Docas give Estado de São Paulo (Codesp), the agency that manages the port of Santos, the main port of call of the South American Country.

In the course of the encounter it is convene to start a collaboration between the two truths in order to favor the offer of marine connections to the Brazilian enterprises and of the Italian northeast online with the commercial trend between two Countries. The Harbour Authority of Venice has explained that the volumes of import/export record an increase of +50% regarding 2009 and that the Italian northeast imports from Brazil mainly produced to legacies to the manifacturing activities (700 million euros, +28%) and produced agricultural (200 million euros, +80%) and exports for beyond a billion of euro machinery means of transport and base metals. From Brazil, instead, they arrive in Italy produced of the textile field and the apparel (300 million euros), wood (paper) and food.

The ports of Venice and Santos are proposed to begin a collaboration beginning from the exchange of know-how-how in environmental matters and in management of the crocieristico field - of strong interest for Brazil - let alone to start combined formative activities in logistic within, safety & security. The Venetian harbour agency has specified that many activities of collaboration already are set up: Cfli, the Venetian consortium of formation, has signed in the 2011 conventions with the Italian Chambers of Commerce in South America between which those of Caracas (Venezuela), Montevideo (Uruguay), Santiago (Chile), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Saint Paolo (Brazil).

"With president Correia Greenhouse - Franco Sensini has said - we are placed objectives ambitiouses who re-enter in the perspective more and more to open the port of Venice to the total traffics. The interchange between Nord-Est and Brazil today is worth about 2,2 billion euros: draft of traffics that our port of call must necessarily serve and favor. With the return to backdrops less 12 meters and the development of the new harbour terminal of height the port of Venice will in the next few years be able more and more to answer to the commercial requirements towards South America of the enterprises nordestine".