Fifty Helvetic managers have visited the port of



Some days before a delegation of fifty Helvetic managers of society of shipment, logistic operators and companies of navigation has visited the port of, hosts of "La Spezia System", concluding a series of encounters with the community of the organized Swiss shippers jointly from Propeller Club Port of Basel (PCB) and from the Swiss Shippers' Council (SSC).

To a tour between the structures of the port via earth and sea is continuation a presentation of the various processes and harbour services realized from the group Contship Italy, the Harbour Authority of and from the Direction of the office Customs of that have illustrated the current abilities and the most recent innovations (between which the pre-clearing), the developments in the short term and the plans for the future of the port of, showing the benefits and the advantages for the Swiss importers and exporter.

""the port of La Spezia, along with its historical partner, the group Contship Italy - it has evidenced the president of the Harbour Authority, Lorenzo Forcieri, addressing to the Helvetic managers - guarantees to all the Swiss importers and exporter a full satisfaction of their logistic necessities". "The Contship group, as your Italian partner of reference - Cecilia Eckelmann-Battistello has confirmed, president of the terminalista company - is engaged to supply services of excellence to all the community of the Swiss shippers. Through our companies, like La Spezia Container Terminal, Sogemar, Hannibal and Oceanogate, we are able to offer an integrated solution of excellence purposely designed in order to answer to your long necessities all your logistic chain".

In the course of the encounter president of Propeller Club Port of Basel, Thomas W. Rickli, has emphasized that the decisive factor for an ulterior development of the traffics is represented by the railway connections between from Liguria ports and Switzerland, through the efficient intermodal terminal of Contship to Melzo in province of Milan. To such purpose, from January 2015 Hannibal, international the intermodal operator of the group Contship Italy, will carry out three travels weeklies magazine in each direction.

Bernhard Metzger, vice-president of the Swiss Shippers' Council and director Logistica & Trasporti of MIGROS, operator leader in the great Switzerland distribution, has explained that "during last two years MIGROS it has persecuted its strategy that more and more previews shipments through from Liguria ports. Truly we are made an impression - it has specified - by the stability that this option has carried to total ours supply chain. Moreover, from how much we have been able to experiment, we feel ourselves encouraged to head ulteriorly at this strategy that it previews I use it of the corridor to South of the Alps. Not only for the quality, the times of distance reduced and the competitiveness in comparison to the connections with the ports of the Europe north, but also for the added value that this Italian alternative offers to our program of sustainability Generation M, than us a constant reduction of the emissions of co2 affords".