The Harbour Authority of Taranto to Shanghai to hunting of new customers


In occasion of own participation to the fair “Transport Logistic China 2012”, than one has held last week to Shanghai, the Harbour Authority of Taranto, anticipates in China with the president and the general secretary, Sergio Prete and Francesco Benincasa, has persecuted the opportunities to acquire new potential customers for the apulian port of call. Between these the navigation company Lowers Shipping Container Lines (CSCL), with which the Italian harbour agency - supported from the representatives of the group Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), that she is shareholder of the Taranto Container Terminal (TCT), the society that manages the terminal containers of the apulian port - has discussed approximately the possibility to insert Taranto between the ports of call of the routes of the Chinese company.

Nel course of the Sergio Prete mission has among other things introduced the port of Taranto also to the SMTPA (Shanghai Municipal Transport and Port Authority), that he is the public body of government of the port, and to SIPG (Shanghai International Port Group), that it is instead the private operator and that - as well as to Shanghai - manages terminal all over the world and invests in the fields about to expansion. Priest has proposed to SMTPA and SIPG to visit the port of Taranto and to pick such occasion in order to start a profitable collaboration that it involves is the public part that private one with the scope to intensify the traffics between the ports of Taranto and Shanghai and to estimate from Chinese part the participation directed in the plans of investment of the apulian port. To Shanghai Priest it is accompanied by the summits of the HPH also in a visit to one of the terminals of the group in the port of Shanghai.

Slid thursday, moreover, the Harbour Authority of Taranto has (SISI), that public Chinese pre-eminent characterized from the excellence in the activities of search in the marine field and the ports is the greater university institute, in the activities of academic formation and of the communications. The understanding previews that Port Authority and SISI collaborates in the following fields: improvement of the relations with the respective governments and offer of proposals to the same ones with respect to specific decisions, the aim to expand the infuence of the signers of the protocol in the market of the shipping international; finalized cooperation to organize destined course of formation to representatives of the two agencies, events in which academic teacher of first floor they can be confronted with the harbour government, authorities and the representatives of the commerce and the industry, as well as to carry out academic search of international importance; construction of a Network in the marine field and of the ports, is in China that in Italy, that it encourages the human resource and exchange of information in formation programs; cooperation in order to realize collection and market researches of data in the reference fields.