Mearelli (Assologistica): strong worries on the management of the controls of the Agency of Customs on the goods



This morning to Taranto a press conference has held indetta from Assologistica and accommodated from Confindustria in order to denounce the serious situation delineated in the traffic containers in transhipment of the port tarantino as a result of the customs verifications. In opening of the encounter president of Confindustria Taranto, Vincenzo Cesareo, has expressed worry hard for how much he is happening in the port of Taranto, and president of Assologistica, Carlo Mearelli has denounced that, "while in all the public occasions the Agency of Customs exalts own computer science engagement and own collaboration with the other Countries of the Union, introducing himself as model the vanguard, to peripheral level the situation is very various and regards the entire national territory". "If specific of Taranto - Giancarlo Russo has explained, vice-president d managing Assologistica and of the terminal containers of Taranto - to block or a in transit worse container to make to disembark it when it was not previewed by the company, it means to make to lose to the goods all the transport coincidences that them allow the punctual arrival with the places of final destination. The damage to the commerce is obvious and for example explains because today more and more loaders and receivers ask the navigation companies to cancel Taranto as port of transhipment to advantage of the near ports of the Mediterranean oriental, the Pireo".

According to Assologistica, "used from the Agency of Customs of Taranto, as in other Italian ports and gates, the up to now accompanied methods sometimes from high-flown self-referential official notices then refuted from the courts - as the recent episode of five seized containers for counterfeited producing suspicion of, rejected then from the judgment of the court of Taranto - not only fall back directly on the territorial activities, the commerce and the logistics and transport, but they produce ulterior costs to the collectivity, in economic terms and of administrative management inherent to the necessary resource to the justice. He is obvious - it has emphasized the association - than all this moves away the customers from the port. The only ones to benefit are the same customs officers, than although the dramatic decrease of the traffics succeeds to maintain same the organic one, continuing to produce controls parametrati to the values of a time (in 2008 beyond 800.000 teu, today 180,000 teu of which empty 25%)".

"Unless not there are suspiciones inherent to safety and public health - it has found Assologistica - the containers with final destination in other ports, which blocked and seized are in total contradiction with means and the strategies of control that instead the Agency it announces and it could really adopt, interfacciandosi and allertando Customs of the ports of final destination of the goods with the computer science systems".

"To only discredit the logistics of transhipment with invasive and unwarrantable controls - it has accused Francesco Velluto, general manager of Taranto Container Terminal (TCT) - us door to the abandonment of the terminal by the navigation companies, oltretutto in a territory that is gasping for breath dramatically. Recently Shanghai explanations in merit are asked, by the companies of navigation to the president of the Harbour Authority".

"But if the periphery imposes indisturbata serious damages to an economy already in knee - it has observed Mearelli - evidently is because the center affords it to him. As president of the main Italian association of logistics enterprises I cannot esimere expressing strong worries on the management of the controls on the goods that will enter in Italy for the Expo, because what it is happening to Taranto it opens heavy shadows on the direction of the Agency and the conditioning of the market through the lever of the controls".