Signed the protocol of understanding for Centro Unico Servizi in the retroportuale area of



Today the protocol of understanding for Centro Unico Servizi is signed di Santo Stefano di Magra who will be installed on a total area of 69.032 square metres in the retroportuale area of, rented from the Harbour Authority Logistic spezzina from FS, in which all the controls and the verifications will be concentrated operatingly to which the goods in escape from the port of must be subordinate.

"We today anticipate - the director of the Office of Customs of La Spezia has explained, Elvio La Tassa - two infrastructures, an immaterial one, that is the customs only door that will guarantee a remarkable saving of times and costs for the enterprises engaged in the process of clearance thanks to the coordination of the involved administrations. In this way the container will be opened a single time and will be examined at the same time by all the involved actors (Office of Customs, marine Health, Point of Frontier Inspection, Customs corps, etc). The material infrastructure of S. Stefano, that it has been possible to realize thanks to the harbour community, will be instead a real extension of the port breaks that he is very efficient but possesses limited spaces. The only door customs, strongly intentional from the central administration of Customs, will so act in those spaces using also a methodology of not intrusiva verification, graces to a new and most modern scanner, acquired from the Agency of Customs for about four million euro, than it will be gone to add to the two existing in port. The instrument will be used by the qualified civil employees from the agency and will be put on of the other authorities that of it they will make demanded".

"A under way process is sealed today - the president of the Harbour Authority of has declared, Lorenzo Forcieri - for a long time in order to increase the customs circuit to S. Stefano Magra, where all the controls of the goods will be concentrated and realized also physically the only door, in a mansion of 800 square metres up to now made unusable. Draft of an important step for the efficientamento of the port, to the aim of velocizzare the operations of control and handlings of the goods. They said that with the only center services, the project Widermos, platform AP Net, united to the preclearing - it has emphasized Forcieri - we will have a port decidedly to the vanguard in the possession and use of the best computer science instruments. They are much satisfied also of the relationship established with the Municipality of S. Stefano, with which we are engaged in a project of total rationalization of the retroportuale area. To this end Department is entrusted a study to the University of Genoa (Sciences for the Architecture) that it will have the objective of giving to functional organicity and quality to the city part and that logistics".

The mayor of Santo Stefano Magra has evidenced as this initiative seals "a strategic alliance with the Harbour Authority on the development of the areas of S. Stefano Magra. The customs only center - it has found Juri Mazzanti - represents an important step for the total progettualità of the entire retroportuale zone".

The protocol, as well as from Forcieri and the Tax, has been undersigned also from the commander of the Customs corps of La Spezia, Enrico Mion, from the president of the Association Spezzina Doganalisti (A.SPE.DO.), Bruno Pisano, from the director of the Place Frontier Inspection La Spezia of the Health ministry, Gabriele De Santis, from the managing director of La Spezia Container Terminal, Michele Giromini, and from the president of System Porto Srl, Alessandro Laghezza.