Assologistica, an excess of controls to risk to make to turn out the Italian ports from the international traffics container



Assologistica denunciation as an excess of controls in the Italian ports can risk to make to turn out the ports of call from the international traffics of the container. The association of the logistics enterprises cites "an umpteenth episode" happened little days in the port of Taranto, where - Assologistica explains - the Agency of Customs "has arranged the disembarkation of four containers originated to Alexandria and directed to Koper and Rijeka without having to be neither reshipped to Taranto, for controls on the goods. All the staff of the Taranto Container Terminal - the association specifies - has activated in collaboration with the customs civil employees because the verifications were carried out quickly, with scannerizzazione of the four containers and the physical inspection of the goods at the opening of the seals. After some hour the four containers were unblocked and quickly re-embarked and stowed in the slots by which they were made to capture. The assessment has confirmed the blocked regularity of the goods".

"Our activism - Giancarlo Russo emphasizes, vice-president of managing Assologistica and of the Taranto Container Terminal - has been profitable possible gives back it of the containers to the marine carrier in the tempistiche previewed from the bills of lading of the goods, even if the difference of the seal remains that the final customer will find to the delivery of the container. But our alacrity enough not to neither contain the damage perceived from the marine carrier on goods in transit. In fact, it will have to support the not provisional costs of handling and customs verification, cancelling the benefit of the economy of scale. For a long time - Russian finds - they are more and more the loaders that, in order to avoid the misfortune gushed from the controls on the goods made in the Italian ports, ask the transshipment for own containers in not Italian ports. We are risking to stuffed to cancel from the economies of scale of the marine carriers, with most serious economic and occupational repercussions on our terminalistiche activities. The transshipment it is a fundamental voice of the development of the traffic container, from which occupational effect has been developed to the system of the Mediterranean portualità with an important on the territories especially of the South Italy. Also only little episodes still as these and we will be turned out by the Mediterranean terminalistica direction, to advantage of Spanish, French, Greek and Balkan the ports, as well as to those North Africans. That the controls very come, but - Russian concludes - than they are not an instrument of distortion of the competition between ports, oltretutto in the same European Community"

"In our Country - the president of Assologistica observes, Carlo Mearelli - the border between controls to support to the regular development of the business activities and controls that suffocate the initiatives is labile, with the exception of the other European Countries from which it enters and it exits much Italian part of the goods. It is not possible to speak about international development of the commercial traffics in the Italian ports, to ask tightening private investments and industrial plans and at the same time to allow so rigid local interpretations of the controls. The lack of European policies of effective coordination and equal rules of the customs inspections between all Countries EU-28 cannot be supplied with a local exercise that appears to the users of our ports unforeseeable and vessatorio. The only result of this to proceed will be to make to increase to Italian goods I/E in the not Italian ports and their relative costs of transport and to stimulate disinvestments and unemployment on our territories. Politics must take part on these vital issues that are decisive to prescind from any reform are wanted to be made for the development of our harbour and logistic system".

According to Assologistica, "for the stability and the development of the international traffics on our territory a level of reasonable and acceptable customs inspection from the market, exercised with uniform criteria is necessary on all the national territory. Corrected and legal economic development, efficiency and logistic competitiveness of our system - the association restates - cannot be disconnected between they in the practical daily".

Assologistica asks therefore the ministers and the competent ministries to take part timely and opportunely on such serious issue.