Encounter to in order to clarify the issue of the customs corridors



Today the president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, has met the representatives of the associations of the shippers, the doganalisti and the shipping agents with the objective to deepen and to clarify some issues that have been object of debate in the last days on the start of the phase of experimentation of the customs corridor for the goods of Ikea ( of the 26 and 30 March and 1 and 1 April 2015). To the reunion they were you anticipate for the Association of the Shippers president Alessandro Laghezza accompanied by Bruno Pisano, for the association of the Doganalisti president Flavio Borra and for the shipping agents president Andrea Fontana.

In the course of the encounter jointly the necessity has been restated to strengthen the so-called "Spezia model" that has always represented an efficiency example, where the introduced innovations also has become point of reference for other harbour truths, in the interest of the Country, for the recovery of its competitiveness.

Al term of the reunion the Harbour Authority and the associations of shippers, doganalisti and shipping agents of have announced that "the clarifications and the deepenings made during the encounter have carried to the location of some points on the base of the interest of the port and the entire harbour community, recognizing the value of the under way pre-clearing and the role of the logistic corridors, what various from the customs corridors, convene on the importance of velocizzare and giving sure times to the operations of clearance of the goods in port, so as it is happening in the cases of application of the pre-clearing, through which have reached the levels of efficiency of the ports of the Europe North".

In particular, the three characterized points, on which a common action has been agreed in confronts of the agencies and interested institutions, are the widening and the potenziamento of the pre-clearing, allowing some the application to pass from the departure of the ship from the last not Italian port in the Mediterranean; to give concrete performance to the customs only door adapting the organic ones, in particular of the Marine Health, and assigning to the Agency of Customs the role of coordinator of all the controls, extending some the activity timetables; to in existence limit the current experimentation on the controlled customs corridors to the transfer of the goods cleared to subject to physical control, also in the full respect of the national and communitarian existing normative in matter, widening and so extending on national field the positive experimentation in existence of the corridor controlled between port of and retroporto of S. Stefano Magra.

Forcieri has been declared particularly satisfied for the found again understanding that has carried to characterize concrete points on which acting in common way, closing definitively the controversies of the slid days. "Moreover it is clarified - it has emphasized - than the Harbour Authority is not the agency which they had to be turned the relative assertions to the Ikea project. From this encounter it exits confirmed the line of the stiff Harbour Authority to strengthen the total competitiveness of the system, setting itself to the head of the processes of change and innovation in topic of portualità and logistics, in the interest of our territory and the entire Country".