the pre-clearing procedure is activated near the port of Savona



Al port of Savona - Vado Ligure has become operating from two days the procedure of pre-clearing, that is of clearance anticipated of the goods in arrival, that it is put in existence experimentally in 2009 own in the savonese from Liguria port of call from the Agency of Customs. The new procedure, that the clearance of the goods consists in anticipating before the berthing of the ship in dock in way to give sure and fast times to the escape from the port, is introduced in recent days to the local operators from the interregional director of Customs, Franco Letrari, that it has successively met the president and the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Savona, Gian Luigi Miazza and Roberto Visintin, with the objective of a collaboration that returns the most efficient possible system supported from shippers and terminalisti.

Thanks to disciplining undersigned between the Agency of Customs and the Harbour office, the start of the pre-clearing activity will afford to anticipate the moment of the computerized acquisition of clearance documents, putting in front them to the physical arrival of the goods near the structures of the harbour terminals and to the savonesi economic operators and will allow to at the same time know before the disembarkation the channel of control selected from the customs informative system and of being able to guarantee a more rational management of the spaces in storage of the containers. The clearance in sea, in fact, is applied to containerized shipments of goods, is in ordinary procedure is in domiciled procedure, but it is not applied to the traffic ro-ro

According to the regulations managed from the Agencies of Customs, in charge of the goods it can demand the procedure of clearance in sea for the coming ships from a port of the Mediterranean, after the departure with destination directed to the port of Savona - Vado Ligure; or from a port of call outside from the Mediterranean, once exceeded the straits of Suez, Gibraltar, Dardanelli, with direct destination Savona - Vado Ligure. It will be the Harbour-office to monitor the ship along its way, until its income in the port of Savona.

"The objective also in the port of Savona-Go - Gian Luigi Miazza has explained - is to see realized a project that it can be synthetized with a simple phrase, much beloved to the shippers: "outside from the port in 48 hours". The optimization of the times of accomplishment of the customs formalities will have reflected positive also on harbour the city practicability as well as, contributing to giving breath to areas that will have less problems than congestionamento".

While near the port of Genoa the pre-clearing procedure has succeeded in at the end last month to cover about 80% of "the dedicabili" ships to this important customs innovation (traffic containers to clearly of the transhipment). "Such data - it has emphasized the Harbour Authority of the capital of Liguria - allow us to assert (at less than six months from the start of the initiative) that the pre-clearing, even though still subject to an experimental customs regime, is by now widely prevailing the customs procedure in the port of Genoa".

On the base of the achieved results, Agency Customs and Harbour Authority of Genoa are defining some ulterior finalized participations to new procedures of programming of the cycle of the controls returned possible from the taken part advance of the customs cycle and new instruments of planning of the procedures of withdrawal of the goods from the port, which effect of the displacement "to sea" of all the documentary cycle of import (whose start was still until little months ago legacy to the berthing of the ships in port). The objective is that to supply an impulse to the ulterior reduction of the station times in port and to create the optimal foundations for the organic programming of the logistic and customs corridors.