Mission of the Group Young Shipping of Confitarma to Singapore



In recent days a nourished Shipping Young delegation of Group (GGA) of Confitarma, guided from president Andrea Garolla of Bard, has gone to Singapore in order more and more to meet exponents of local authorities and Italian and foreign companies that for a long time operate in the Asian city state, point of reference for the shipping total.

In particular, Group Italian has met Josephine Teo, minister of Finances and of Transports and deputy of Parliament of Singapore, that it has illustrated the main challenges that the government of Singapore must not only face in marine field but also from an associate-economic point of view more wide one, above all for the aspects legacies to sparsity of ground, I balance between force foreign and national job and maintenance of the current levels of economic increase.

Near the Nanyang Technological University, to the Italian Group the program is illustrated World Heritage Programme financed from Maritime and Port Authority (MPA), the public authority that to Singapore administers and promotes the portualità and the marittimità, whose objective is to return the city of world-wide vital Singapore of the marine culture.

In the Damen ship yard, in the area of Jurong, to the west of the island, pertaining to the famous shipbuilding group Dutch Damen, the GGA has been able to observe all the several phases of the working and the construction of ships in aluminum. Successively the delegation has gone in the north of the island in order to visit the yard of the largest Sembawang than active Singapore it is in the new constructions that in the naval repairs that are getting ahead important completed development plans that once will be able to give to job until 30.000 workers between workers and technicians.

The delegation has then visited the terminal containers of Singapore, according to larger to the world, than within 2020 it will complete the development plan of Terminals 3 and 4 of Pasir Panjang, than partially it is already operating with automated techniques of handling to the vanguard that will be extended in the next few years also to the other present and future terminals.

In the course of the mission the Group Young Shipping has then had a chance for meet Novella Burioli (responsible Italian Desk Corporate & Investment Banking Division - International Division of the branch of Singapore di Intesa Saint Paolo), Sherman Lee (marketing manager of second the greater society of bunkeraggio of the port of Singapore), Simone Centola (senior associated of the law firm Wikbor Rein), John Of Ancona (divisional director of Clarkson and other analysts of Clarkson Asia) and Konstantinos Roumeliotis of the RINA, area Singapore manager, Malaysia (excl. Borneo), Thailand, Australia.

The evening on 4 November, to conclusion of the mission, the society of Singapore Friend has organized networking a cocktail to which several exponents of the community of shipping of Singapore and in particular Katie Mendella, president of the Young Executive Group of the Singapore Shipping Association let alone in charge of the commercial section of the Embassy of Italy to Singapore are taken part, in charge of the Economic and Trade section of the delegation of the European Union to Singapore, the president and some members of the directive council of Youngship Singapore.