Genoa consolidates its role of primary harbour gateway for the Lombardic enterprises



In last the five years the total containerized trade (import more export) between the Lombardy and the port of Genoa is increased of beyond +30% in tons, with average annual of +6%, recovering and indeed exceeding of +12.5% the peak pre-crisis of 2007. It emphasizes an investigation by Oxford Economics, in collaboration with Vito de Ceglia, economic and expert journalist of transports, that it is introduced to Milan by Emilio Rossi, president of EconPartners and today senior advisor of Oxford Economics, during the convention "Milan rediscovers its port. Because Genoa is the more convenient choice for the Lombardic companies" organized from Assagenti, Assolombarda and "The MediTelegraph".

The study evidences that the 2014 therefore have been placed as historical record for use it of the port of Genoa by the Lombardic enterprises and that the first seven months of the 2015 have consolidated this trend with an ulterior increase of +2% regarding the same period last year obtained thanks to an optimal performance of the Lombardic exports via Genoa, in increment of beyond +6%.

"I am convinced - Mario Castaldo has asserted, president of the Group Trasporti, Logistics and Infrastructures of Assolombarda - than Genoa is the natural port of Milan and the Lombardy and are equally sure that can be still made a lot in order to value this asset in favor of our companies. To increase to the amount and the efficiency of the relations of business with from Liguria ports is responsibility of the enterprises, but the conditions in terms of street and railway accessibility, simplification of the procedures and strategies of territorial planning of the takeovers are up to politics. I lively hope that the Plan for the Portualità and approved of Logistica on 6 August and give along attended goes in this direction. From the song ours we are ready to support of the acts".

Rino Canavese of the Gavio Group has found that the exploitation of the port of Genoa by the enterprises of the Milanese and Lombardic area has grown also thanks to the discouragement of bureaucratic barriers, penalizing until little months ago: "in the last year - it has explained - a positive approach of the Agency of Customs has been realized new, of the Harbour Authorities and of the Body of the Harbour offices to the topics of the optimization of the cycle of I forward of the goods, than with the pre-clearing and the instruments which put on from the customs normative new have returned a reduction in the times possible. Moreover the presence of Customs on the retroportuali structures opens interesting perspectives and affords to import a management optimized also from the economic point of view".

The president of the association of the genoese shipping agents Assagenti, Gian Enzo Duci, observing that after the universal exposure in Milan course he candidates himself to being one of world-wide the economic Capitals, has evidenced that, "in order to assert itself as such, the connection with the sea, and therefore with Genoa, becomes indispensable: without to look far away - Duci has remembered - is what the French have realized incorporating the port of the Havre in the city area of Paris. Unfortunately, in an age where the distance concept is from competing in terms of time, rather than of kilometers - it has specified - current the street and railway infrastructures represent the true barrier to the development of the capital of Lombardy".