The Harbor Authority of Gioia Tauro signs a pact of collaboration with the port of New York


The president of the harbor Authority of Gioia Tauro, Giovanni Grimaldi, has undersigned to New York an agreement of cooperation with the president of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, Richard M. Larrabee, than sight to support the commercial routes that, passing from Suez, create a directed connection between the coast oriental of the United States and the Mediterranean, with the which hub international port of Gioia Tauro of reference, and that it has moreover the objective to together intercept the traffics of Far East.

"Currently - it has observed Grimaldi - navigation ways exist that connect the three main world-wide markets: USA, Europe and Estremo East. Some of these, but, like the transpacifica route, do not serve neither the coast oriental of the United States neither the Mediterranean. The understanding hardly undersigned will head, instead, to support the alternative via of Suez, which strategic commercial route between the two truths. Thanks to this agreement of cooperation we will start, in synergy, an immense advertising campaign to the aim to stimulate the Suez route like alternative to that transpacifica. With the two agencies they will develop campaigns of presentation of the respective ports and will produce to commercial studies on the coordinates the East-West with respect to the greater one I use inside of the way Suez of the routes of international navigation".

Remembering that the harbor authority of New York has in program investments for approximately 360 million dollars in order realizing new plans you turn to improve the intermodal services of the port of call and the connections via railroad, Grimaldi has emphasized that this new alliance that "puts with two engaged agencies to support the development of the intermodalità and the logistics for the increase of own harbor port of call and the territory of reference".

"The Port Authority of New York - moreover Grimaldi has remembered - is a particularly active agency that it takes care, to 360 degrees, of the governance of the transports. Inside of its administrative division, in fact, besides the port of New York, it falls back the regional metropolitan bishop and the World Trade Center".

"This agreement with the port of Gioia Tauro - Richard M. Larrabee has declared - is a first step in order more and more to favor the increase of the commercial exchanges between Asia, the Mediterranean and the coast oriental of the United States using the route of the Suez Canal whom, regarding the transpacifica, it offers puts up guarantees in terms of efficiency and reliability".

To the ceremony of subscription of the understanding it has taken it leave the consul general of Italy to New York, Natalia Quintavalle, that it has evidenced as "this agreement of cooperation is a great occasion in order to not only strengthen the business activity of Gioia Tauro but, also, for rinvigorire the ties between the Calabria and the city of New York in a strategic field. From the song ours - it has added - we are, particularly, fierce of this understanding because it testifies the Italian leadership in the field of the harbor services. We are sure that this is alone the first step of along cooperation distance".

To the encounter of New York Savior Sylvan, and Domenico Bagalà, managing director of the Medcenter have participated also to the general secretary of the Harbor Authority of Gioia Tauro, Container Terminal (MCT), the society that manages the container terminal of the port calabro.