the Association Marine Agents and Brokers Province of Venice celebrates the ten years of life



This year . The organization, intentional by the agents and the local agencies that have seen in the union an occasion for being able to better resolve and with more incisività some common problems, giving also a specific contribution to the activities of the port of Venice, is founded in May 2006.

The anniversary is celebrated near the Church of Santa Marta with a dedicated workshop the operators whom the participation of experts of the marine and legal field has seen. Topic of the encounter was "the recommendation… if it is marine ago well to the port", provocatively to emphasize the role played from the agents in the ports and in particular in the port of Venice. The arguments deepening object, that they spaced from the profiles of responsibility of the marine raccomandatario, the customs broker and the shipper carrier to the normative new on the weighing of the goods, to the technical-nautical services, until the points of view on the last regarding innovations the lagoon port of call, are faced, in quality of relatori, from lawyers Paolo Malaguti and Rosamaria Interdonato of the law firm Malaguti & Partners, Giuseppe Bianco of the marine agency Navi Veneto and Saul Mazzucco, head pilot of the port of Venice.

In occasion of the celebration of decennial Claudia Marcolin, general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Venice, has emphasized that "the agents are deep logical connoisseurs of the international ones of the shipping and, having contezza of the situation, of the possible evolutions but also of the criticalities, they are important allies for the Harbour Authority. To be able to have an expert look on the future - it has found - is for us a way for being more and more competitive and attention to the necessities of the market. Here to Venice, a port that shortly will become regulated for the presence of the bulkheads of Mose, the coordination with the agents and other harbour operators is, and will be crucial, because the interferences can be reduced lessened and an excellent service can be offered to the ships".

"The collaboration with the operators and the Harbour Authority - president of the Association Agenti has confirmed and Marine Brokers of the Province of Venice, Paolo Tonolo - is an important part of our job, to we is up to mediate between the operators and the authorities of the port on behalf of the shipowners, rates and regulations are our specialty and for this we are beaten because to Venice there are fair prices, punctual services and able norms to manage also the unexpected which fog, wind or tidal wave. The start of the Mose system - it has agreed Tonolo - will be an important testing ground, the determination of the convoys of ships in arrival/departure from the port, of the priorities and above all of the costs they will be a lot important in order to continue to return our port still competitive".