extremely positive Budget of the first six months of start of the procedure of pre-clearing in the ports of Genoa and La Spezia



the Agency of Customs has announced that it is more than positive the outcome of the first six months of introduction of the procedure of pre-clearing in the ports of Genoa and La Spezia. The procedure of clearance under way sea 25th February slid near the port of from Liguria chief town - it has specified the customs administration - has supplied "a extremely positive budget. The mercantile ships that have demanded the admission to the procedure (that it previews the monitoring from the Harbour office of the way from the port of departure until the berthing) are passed by 30% of March almost 80% of August, for 272 total ships and beyond one hundred thousand container, that they have so been able to benefit of the remarkable connected advantages. The clearance in sea in fact takes part of the group of strategic initiatives undertaken by the Agency of Customs and of the Monopolies for I throw again of the competitiveness of national the harbour system".

"the new procedure - the Agency of Customs has remembered - affords the anticipated presentation of the customs declarations regarding the arrival of the ship, reducing, indeed in many cases eliminating completely, the station times of the goods in the disembarkation terminals, thanks to the selection, before the arrival, of shipments to subject to control. The goods selected for the controls in fact cannot disembark and be under way directly for the final destinations through the interaction of the several logistic subjects, with obvious advantages in terms of saving of time and reduction of costs for the operators".

"Of absolute importance - it has specified the customs administration - has been also the continuous dialogue of Agency of Customs and Harbour Authority of Genoa with the marine cluster, through which suitable forms of sharing of the data, addressed specifically have been prepared to favor the widest resource than all the marine carriers and they agents to the procedure, than in the last weeks they have given ulterior, important impulse".

Also the Office of Customs of has been able to state obvious advantages in term of uses of the space of the harbour docks and dwell Time (dwell time in port of the container) that in the harbour port of call they break has been reduced passing from an average of 5,5 days to 2,3. The Agency of Customs has explained that to from the start of the experimentation authorizations to five between the greater companies of navigation are granted: MSC, Hanjin, Lowers Shipping, UASC and COSCO and the number of the ships that have benefitted of the new procedure is advanced to 76%. "The start of the clearance in sea - it has evidenced the Agency of Customs - has certainly contributed moreover to the recorded increment, regarding the same period of the slid year, of +4.7% in the export entries, of +9.3% in the import declarations and of +17.83% in the transit declarations. During the same period the relative data to the contrast of the fraudulent traffics have made to record an increase of the results with respect to the violations that evidence an increment percentage of 57%. Such performances are totally online with the objective of the Agency to assure the correct balance between the fluidity of the traffics and effectiveness of the controls".

While next Wednesday the pre-clearing procedure will be started experimentally also on the port of Civitavecchia. The Harbour Authority of the port of call has emphasized that "the activation of such procedure is returned possible thanks to the sinergico contribution of all the actors of the marine cluster that operates in harbour within". The harbour agency of Civitavecchia has remembered that "the clearance in sea affords to pull down the times for the presentation/acceptance of the declarations, beforetime regarding the arrival of the ship in port, also for that goods that need of certifications of competence of other administrations and for which are active, already for a long time, the interoperability in the within of the customs only Door".