The port of Livorno tightens an agreement with the Egyptian General Organization for Export and Import Control



In occasion of the first institutional mission to Rome of the president Egyptian Mohamed Morsi, than tomorrow it will meet president Giorgio Napolitano and the Prime Minister Mario Monti, today the Harbour Authority of Livorno and the General Organization for Export and Import Control (GOEIC), agency controlled directly from the ministry of the Industry and of the Commerce of Cairo, they have undersigned a strategic understanding on the interchange of the data between the platform of control of the GOEIC and the TPCS (Tuscan Port Community System), the developed computerized platform from the Leighorn harbour agency. The objective is that to facilitate the operators in the relative implementations to the phytosanitary controls.

The pact is signed to the St Hotel. Regis from the president of the livornese Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti, and from the chairman of the GOEIC, Mohamed Soliman Shafik, to the presence of the minister Egyptian of the Industry and of the commerce, Hatem Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Saleh.

"The agreement - Gallanti has explained - approaches the two markets of reference and strengthens the cooperation between the two Countries in the section of the coolness. The obtained results this today are yield of a job shared from all, than it has been determined through the fundamental support of the ministry of the economic Development, of the ministry of Foreign countries and the Tuscany Region". "The bilateral encounter - Shafik has confirmed - has afforded to Egypt and Italy of giving a new impulse to the commercial exchanges".

The Harbour Authority of Livorno has emphasized that from now on the two computerized platforms will be able to interact and to afford to an operator who amounts the goods from the other Country to organize the phytosanitary controls in a timely manner, also before the ship in dock arrives. Draft - it has found the general secretary of Port Authority, Massimo Provinciali - of "an important step forward on the land of the reconstruction of the international relationships between the two Countries and is a objective that the Harbour Authority could not have pursued without the TPCS, that it is a computer science system that in fact allows the interactive communication between all the appointed subjects with handling and the control of the goods".

The Italian Harbour Authority has announced that from part Egyptian an alive interest for Livorno also by Port Authority of Alexandria has reached: "the two ports - the production manager of the port of call has confirmed Egyptian, Hoda Attia - must collaborate in order to activate new traffics".