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the port of celebrates the activation of the connection with Canada operated from MSC
Forcieri: this ulterior development increases the role of La Spezia and its logistic system as door of total market access
July 16, 2013
With the arrival yesterday of portacontainer the MSC Gina the port of has celebrated the activation of the connection with Canada guaranteed from this new service operated from the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). "La Spezia - it has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority spezzina, Lorenzo Forcieri - is the ideal choice for all the customers who demand a efficient and integrated offer of logistic services. This new service confirmation the numerous opportunities available in offering connections directed on important markets as that Canadian where Italy plays a commercial role of first floor. We are in fact to the tenth one and fifteenth place in classifies of their customers/suppliers of producing and semifinished with a positive trade balance of beyond 970 million euros to end 2011. In representation of the port of La Spezia - it has concluded Forcieri - I want to express mine felt thanks and appreciation for this ulterior development that increases the role of La Spezia and its "logistic system" as door of total market access". "We continue - it has added the general secretary of port the authority, Davide Santini - to look forward remembering that we on hand remain for every type of opportunity and development that can regard our port".
To the welcome ceremony it has participated to a delegation of agency MSC the Ships formed by Vittorio Bagnasco, Igor Briata, Gianluca Galazzo and Alessandro Vivaldi. Alla Spezia the new service lands to La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) of the Contship group: "LSCT - the general manager of the terminalista society has remembered, Michele Giromini - from years already benefits of connections directed with Asia, the coasts of the United States, the Indian subcontinent, and all the intra-Mediterranean Countries. We cannot that to be extremely recognizing for the support that our customers have intentional to come to an agreement themselves and the introduction of this new connection directed with Canada one joins to those which already today they take advantage of the advantages of the "system" La Spezia. Through the societies of the group Contship Italy, importers and exporter they can have use of logistic services integrated that they include the structures for the cargo and drainage of the ships in LSCT, the services of railway traction of Oceanogate, the transports truck drivers, railway and the operations to added value of Sogemar in Italy and Hannibal beyond Alpe. We have defined "railability" - Giromini has explained - the factor of success of LSCT in which the containers they pass, without interruption, from the ship to the track and vice versa offering many similes regarding how much it happens to Montreal, that is defined the new door of access not only for Canada, but also for the area western center of the United States. Also a great quota the traffic is managed there with the railroad as happens here to La Spezia".
"The group - Cecilia Battistello has commented, president of Contship Italy - is felt privileged for the support that ours estimated customers in every area of business recognize us. This new service and this first port of call to La Spezia, testify the farsightedness of our founder, dottor Angelo Ravano, than many years ago, have had the vision and the ability to create a terminal, LSCT, in great part structured on the railway services. In spite of the uncertainty of the field characterized from a question stable weak person but in its complex, we are contents that our customers continue to remain to our flank and will continue to develop to our services and our produced ones in order to support their activities. To september, picking the occasion of the Global conference Liner Shipping Asia to Singapore - it has announced Cecilia Battistello - a delegation Contship Italy who includes the Asian undersigned will meet much partner, is direct customers who indirect. It is our intention to visit as many as possible of customers to Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Besides to demonstrate our personal thanks for their support, we need to understand their situation so as to be ready to satisfy their requirements, today and tomorrow".
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