Agreement Agency of Customs - MCT for the potenziamento of the controls on the goods in the port of Gioia Tauro



The Agency of Customs and Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the society of the group Contship Italy that manages the container terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro, has signed an agreement finalized to the potenziamento of the control devices on the goods introduced in the customs spaces of the calabrian port.

The understanding previews the realization of a computer science connection between the technological systems of the room analysis of the Central Office Antifrode of the Agency of Customs and those of management of the video net MCT surveillance.

The Agency of Customs has explained that, while was already in a position to characterizing preventively the route of the container to disembark in the port of Gioia Tauro, it will now have the possibility to monitor them in the port also through the adulterated system of MCT surveillance camera that covers the entire area near which they park the goods. Such new technical instrument will be able to contribute to return the action more effective than prevention and of repression of the illicit traffics improving the ability to characterize/to control, between the million container that disembarks annually in the port of Gioia Tauro, those suspiciones.

While the president of the Region Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, has expressed satisfaction for the new partnership between the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Contship Italy tightened through the participation of MSC to the share capital of Medcenter Container Terminal ( on 17 January 2012). "The news of the income of MSC in Contship Italy - Scopelliti has commented - represents an important action for throws again of the harbour area of Gioia Tauro, a engagement that has always seen us in first row as regional institution. MSC, in fact, through the TIL (Terminal Investment Limited) is one of the main world-wide operators of terminal container, anticipates in the more important ports of call of the five continents".

The governor of the Calabria has remembered that "already in the reunions of the slid months, meeting to Ginevra Diego and Gianluigi Aponte, together with vice president Antonella Stasi, MSC he had manifested the availability to invest in the calabrian port. It is the testimony - it has emphasized - than the Aponte group, it believes in Gioia Tauro and in its increase for I throw again of the greatest and important infrastructure of the Mediterranean. The income of MSC contributes to consolidate the port of call adding a valid partner for Conship Italy and APM Terminals, in a moment in which international the economic conjuncture it is very delicate".

Scopelliti has specified that, in the within of the initiatives for I throw again economic centralized on the harbour area, yesterday to the table for the South to Chigi palace has remembered to the prime Minister Monti the investments carried out from the Region in order to attract naval companies inserting the strategic project of Gioia Tauro in the dossier "Southern Italy for the Europe" that the government will introduce to Brussels. "We - he has concluded Scopelliti - will continue to intensely work for the development of the Agreement of Program Picture and for the increase of Polo Logistico. We consider the agreement started with MSC fundamental: it is a sign hard that he will allow to make to recover to the port of Gioia Tauro the centrality in the transport of the goods in the Mediterranean".

Always yesterday the vice president of the Region Calabria, Antonella Stasi, has met the president and the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Giovanni Grimaldi and Salvatore Silvestri, and the technicians of the agency in order to make the point of the situation to the port of Crotone. The Region has announced that during the reunion a verification has been made on the tempistica for the approval of the town development plan and the performance of the projects financed from the Calabria Region through the last remodeling of axis 6 of the Por, that they preview the definition of the zone of access and paving rear large squares the docks of the commercial port and the realization of the prosecuzione of the outer pier of the Old Port in order to improve the shelter in the presence of adverse conditions weather. To the reunion the referring ones of the Marina Crotone Society are taken part also that has illustrated the project for the concession of the harbour spaces to assign to the new area for nautical from diporto. "The project introduced from Marina - Antonella Stasi has declared - is online with the programming started from the Calabria Region for the harbour area of Crotone. I this morning wish an acceleration of the iter that it will lead shortly to the emission of the ban in order to attract inside private of the management society, and for this (yesterday, ndr) has shared iter procedural for the inherent concession the spaces that the society has asked the Harbour Authority".