Tests of I difrost between Spediporto and Maersk Italy



"Tests of I difrost". So it has defined them Maurizio Fasce, president of the Association Spedizionieri and Conveyors of Genoa (Spediporto). The "climate" between the representation of the shippers of from Liguria chief town and Maersk Italy, the branch Italian of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, number one to the world in the field of the marine transport of the container, had gotten cold beyond the frost point when Maersk Italy had introduced to the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) a question of treatment favorable relatively to a presumed activity of concertazione between shipping agents and shippers, realized in an understanding on the increase of the fees of the agenziali services, demand that Maersk Italy had equipped with documentary evidences that the Authority Antitrust had used, together to information supplied from the Hapag-Lloyd German, in order to activate at the end of a 2009 istruttorio procedure.

To tell the truth the "atmosphere" between the Danish group and the marine-harbour community of Genoa was for a long time rather cold: in the years Maersk precedence, it had tried without success to expand own presence to Genoa, center of own Italian headquarters, looking for spaces on the docks of the city port. Tacitly a part had complained the strong hostility of the local community and the other had denounced the invasività of the shipowning group.

In the 2012 AGCM had concluded the procedure started in 2009 having established that the parts had placed in being a restrictive understanding of the competition and evidencing like Assagenti, the association of the genoese shipping agents, and the same Spediporto had assumed a meaningful role in the concertazione, chargeing to the association of the shippers to have signed the agreements yields of the concertazione "finalized to pour on the final customer the greater cost of the policy and to benefit, beginning from March 2008, of a part of the unearned income I yield of the concertazione" and to have invited the associates "to expect the reduction in price of loyalization"(of 26 March 2012). The AGCM had irrogato pecuniary endorsements for a total of beyond four million euro, of which approximately 82 thousand euros at the expense of each association.

In the same year the Regional administrative court for the Latium had received the resources introduced from the enterprises and the two associations( 24of October and 31 October 2012). The successive resource proposed from the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and the Market for the reform of the sentence of the Regional Administrative Court for the Latium at last was rejected to the slid spring from the Council of State receiving definitively the theses of the companies and Assagenti and Spediporto( 17of April 2014)

Now Spediporto and Maersk Italy try to give again heat to a relationship still rather chilly. The association has announced stipulates it of an agreement of experimental character with Maersk Italy, than - it has specified the association - "it is defined by the shipowning company real "a trial" of the duration of three months, 1 October 2014 - 31 December 2014". "The attempt - Spediproto has explained - is that to open, with this first initiative, I confront constant between one of the societies leader in the transport of the containers and one of most representative trade associations of the shipping".

the managing director of Maersk Italy has illustrated the content of the understanding: "we want to recognize the associates of Spediporto who will use the services of Maersk Line and Safmarine from the port of Genoa - Orazio Stella has said - the possibility to make use of commercial reductions in price from hour until the turn of the year. We hope, therefore - it has emphasized - than this experiment it can carry mutual satisfaction to the involved parts and reverberates its positive effects on all the harbour community".

the president of Spediporto, Maurizio Fasce, has evidenced that the agreement wants to be of auspice for a first step towards the constitution of a future and permanent table of I confront with the Maersk on which they rest the hopes of the category to face many warm topics. "If this experimental period had to sortire good results - it has concluded Belts - could think, like Spediporto, to engage itself to demand an extension of the conditions also to the import, to the aim to guarantee the maximum cover of the benefits to all the companies".