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minister Lupi and the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa have met the summits of terminalista group PSA
Merlon: "we have put PSA in the conditions of being able to increase own investment to Genoa"
October 27, 2014
Today to Singapore the Italian minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, and the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, has met the summits of the terminalista group PSA International, between which Tao Chong Meng, managing director of the company of Singapore, and David Yang, regional managing director of PSA for Europe, the Mediterranean and the Americas. To the encounter he was present Gilberto Danesi, managing director of Voltri Terminal Europe (VTE), the society that manages the container terminal of the genoese harbour area of Prà and that it is controlled by group PSA through the Sinport Harbour Synergies.
In the course of the Chong Meng reunion it has remembered "the centrality of Genoa and Italy in the development plan of PSA in the Mediterranean area" and emphasized "the optimal results achieved from the VTE graces above all to a consisting increase of the productivity".
Satisfaction for the outcome of the encounter is expressed by Merlon: "a fundamental, able relationship consolidates - it has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa - strategic to guarantee development period over a long time span. Genoa has known to attract investments thanks to a great effort of planning of the works, coordination and support. Not last, the solution of the hoary problem of the aerial cone of Columbus (the airport of the capital of Liguria, ndr), thanks to the engagement of the government and in particular of minister Lupi and its structure, that it has in fact unblocked the next participations of modernization and development. Now we are able to be able to give to answers to terminalisti and shipowners on the adaptation of our infrastructures to the new dimensions of the ships and to the new requirements of the traffics". "We have put PSA - it has added Merlon - in the conditions of being able to increase own investment to Genoa and new slowly on the portualità and the logistics announced from minister Lupi to the managers of the society it cannot that to favor this process".
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