the Native-born summits of Katoen in visit to the port of Savona

past Friday the Native-born president of the logistic group Katoen, Fernand Huts, has visited the port of Savona - Vado Ligure where the manager is joint accompanied from the commercial director for Italy, Dirk Verwimp, and from Roberto Arghenini, managing director of Logistic Rivalta, society who last year has entered to take part of the logistic group Belgian( the 7of june and 11 October 2012). From less than a year, in fact, Katoen Native-born he is owner of the 90% of the Interporto of Rivalta Scrivia, situated near of Tortona, logistic landing place of the ports of Savona, Spezia and Genoa. The great logistic infrastructure to directed conduction, with 450.000 square metres of covered areas, 250,000 cubic metres of cooled warehouses and 350,000 square metres of large squares, is the point of logistic connection before the final destination of the goods disembarked in the three from Liguria ports. In Italy, moreover, the group of Antwerp is present to Cremona, where it manages a connected logistics center to the railroad and the Po idrovie, and to Noceto of Gattatico.

In the course of the visit to Savona the managers of the Belgian group have shown interest in the harbour and retroportuali plans of development to Vado Ligure, where the intense activities of multipurpose realization of the platform are on that will enter at the beginning in activity of 2017 in order to accommodate the great container vessels and that it will be managed by terminalista society APM Terminals of shipowning group A.P. Møller-Mærsk.

"we have met the three Native-born managers of Katoen - the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona has explained, Gian Luigi Miazza - in order to introduce they ours two basins of Savona and Vado, in order to show personally the advance of the intense activities of the platform of I go and the system of planned interportuali logons, from the sovrappasso of connection of the new dock with the retroporto to railway the highway practicability and".

In occasion of the visit also is taken the first contacts with APM Terminals: Carlo Merli, managing director of APM Terminals Italy, and Fernand Huts has shared the idea that a port gateway must look on to who it uses it a logistic chain that necessarily answers to requirement of effectiveness and efficiency. "There is space - he has commented Merlons - for a dialogue. We will have to be confronted soon as a harbour terminal as that of I go and a logistic park as Interporto of Rivalta Scrivia must know to create competitiveness and attrattività towards new customers and companies of navigations on this area of the Mediterranean".