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In the port of Genoa it takes to start the system of computerized interchange of the goods
After three years the phase of test is finished
January 13, 2016
Shipping Italy lowers and Cma Cgm Italy is the first two marine agencies to adopt the system of computerized interchange of the goods in the port of Genoa. The association of the genoese shipping agents Assagenti has emphasized that the new procedure of release of the delivery orders, or delivery bonds, than after three years finish the phase of test and become operating in all respects, will in future allow to eliminate 600 thousand paper documents, besides velocizzare and optimizing the job of the agents and the genoese shippers.
Assagenti has remembered that the interchange of the container has been, until now, a very long procedure that it began with the arrival of the bellhop of the shipper in the offices of the marine agency and continued with hours of tail to the counter of the interchanges, the verification of documents for the release of the delivery bond and the payment of the service. The delivery it came then carried in wait before being delivered to the hauler in entrance to the terminal for the physical withdrawal of the container. "The counter for the delivery of documents - Gianfranco Gazzolo has confirmed, managing director of Lowers Shipping (Italy) Agency Co. - always it has been a nevralgico point in the relationship between agents and shippers. This new procedure will help us to optimize the documentary cycle of release of the goods and to diminish the friction situations". Beginning from today, in fact, for the interchanges little minutes will be enough and the delivery it will come automatically transmitted to the shipper and in wait.
The auspice of trade associations of agents and genoese shippers is that in the short period more houses than shipment and marine agencies join to the new procedure in order to achieve a effective advantage on the tempistiche of interchange of the goods.
"The process of computerized interchange - it has evidenced admiral Giovanni Pettorino, extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Genoa - on a national level represents the extension of the immensest harbour computerized system and of it completes the purposes: smaterializzazione of the paper trail and velocizzazione of the transit times of the goods inside of the harbour area".
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