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Shipping agents, shippers and doganalisti of form an alliance
Spezia Port Service will assume the role of unified representation of the categories
January 4, 2016
To La Spezia the associations of the shipping agents, the shippers and the customs brokers have decided to inside constitute an alliance joining of Port Service, society that currently carries out computer science services for the three associations and that from the beginning of the next year it will in all respects assume the role of unified representation of the categories. The three associations, presided respective by Andrea Fontana, Alessandro Laghezza and Flavio Borra, represent a group of forty of companies with 500 dependent and a total turnover of beyond 200 million euros.
The Association Shipping agents La Spezia, the Association Shippers of the Port of and the Aspedo - Association Spezzina Doganalisti has announced that they are the two main objectives of this alliance: "on one side, to create a strong and on a national level international identification also of a harbour community that has been essential element of the success of from Liguria port and that it is proposed as priority counterpart in the choices that will be completed for the future of the port of call; the other debit voice hard to the requests and the proposals that give a privileged point of view, that operating one and of representation of the ships and the goods, these categories are able and intend to formulate".
Moreover the three organizations of category have explained that "the choice completed in these days closely is tied to the debate on states general of the associations that have carried out themselves in October of last year and to the ability to draw the attention also of the public opinion (to which the new community will address with always greater determination) on the occupational risks deriving from the innovations which got ahead from the central administration of Customs. And, more recently, to the success of the national assembly of Federagenti that has had the merit to relight the reflectors on the La Spezia model".
The president of the shipping agents spezzini, Andrea Fontana, has specified that the agreement, that will be perfected in the next few days inside of the system port of, "is placed in a particularly delicate moment for the port of La Spezia called, also in sight of a possible national reform of the ports, to redesign and to give again force own to that great alliance and harbour cohesion that has been to the origin of its incredible success in last the twenty years".
"We are convinced - he has added the president of the shippers, Alessandro Laghezza - than today the harbour operators can print a pushed new and construct a new season of development, asserting near the customers of the port, that is near our directed counterparts, the positive oneness of the port of La Spezia".
The president of the doganalisti, Flavio Borra, has specified that "from the Harbour Authority, also in the optical of a dialectic one that in this period is not certainly lacked", the three associations have received "realize signs of interest to our initiative that is and always will be finalized to the affirmation of a La Spezia model".
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