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the ports of Genoa, Savona and La Spezia have participated to the logistic fair international Transport Logistic China
The delegation guided by Gian Luigi Miazza has met the representatives of the Shanghai Port Trade Association
June 23, 2014
The three ports of Genoa, Savona and La Spezia, with a delegation guided from the president of the association Ligurian Ports Alliance, Gian Luigi Miazza, have participated to the logistic fair international Transport Logistic China that has held from the 17 on 19 June past to Shanghai. In the course of the Miazza event it has introduced from Liguria harbour system to the maximum representatives of the Shanghai Port Trade Association (SPTA) in the headquarters of the Chinese association, where were anticipate others exponents of the Italian portualità between which vice-president of Assoporti, Sergio Prete, that it has thrown the bases for the signature of a memorandum of understanding between the two associations. Miazza has illustrated the characteristics, the excellence and the potentialities of the three from Liguria ports of call that represent the more competitive doors of access for the income of the goods in the markets of the Italy north and the Europe center-south.
In the course of the encounter the exponents of the SPTA have manifested interest regarding the field of the goods containerized and helter-skelter, but they also have evidenced as to the center of the attention of the Chinese operators from they represented there are today, always more, the fleeting traffics. "This - Miazza has explained - is the emerged innovation. The from Liguria ports represent 7% of the world-wide traffic of the cruises and they are candidated as destinations that can attract the new Chinese tourist market, characterized from considerable numbers".
In the course of the manifestation of Shanghai the association Ligurian Ports has illustrated to the visitors the main innovations in terms of material and immaterial infrastructure realization new that is about to definition and completion in the three ports of call of Genoa, Savona and La Spezia. For Savona draft substantially of the platform multipurpose in the basin of Vado Ligure, whose work has arrived today to 20%, united to the completion of according to passenger terminal of next inauguration, for Genoa the completion of some great contained works in the Portuale Town development plan, as for example new dock of Bettolo Descent that will be completed within the end of 2015 and will carry the ability to the port of call to beyond five million container, and for La Spezia the investment of 200 million euros by the group Contship Italy - Eurokai/Eurogate and that from 100 million euros by the Group Tarros, Arkas and Fratelli Cosulich that will allow the full realization of the Portuale Town development plan.
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