a convention of the C.I.S.Co has evidenced the risks and the opportunities deriving from the income in service of the mega one portacontainer



Only a ten of years ago, when the world-wide economy seemed destined to a long-lasting increase and when the marine transport of line, that it is indissolubly legacy to the destinies of the total economy, seemed projected in the same direction, many, at least between the top manager of the main companies of the containerized marine transport, was convinced of the opportunities to equip the fleets of ships of large-capacity to cargo and little expressed perplexity on the employment of these gigantic ones portacontainer.

In order to do today the point on the current state of the things, when a considerable number of these mega ships has already made its income on the market and when by now for a long time the increase of various world-wide economies has quickly a remarkable slow down and phases of arrest, the C.I.S.Co. (Council of Intermodal Shipping Consultants) has organized an entitled convention "Larger Vessel, Larger Oppportunities" that one has held yesterday in the Elettra room of Centro Congressi of the Marine Station of Naples in the within of the manifestation Naples Shipping Week. Scope of the encounter has been to deepen the topic of analyzed naval gigantism from the point of view of the several subjects of the logistic row of the containerized transport.

Doubts on possible an ulterior dimensional increase of the ships are expressed by Pasquale Tramontana, managing director of the MSC of Naples, that they have looked on to instead probable numerical increase. This - it has found - will have to sure involve a greater development of the earth logistics and a bureaucratic simplification, with aimed projects and a valid direction of the central government.

For Agostino Gallozzi, president of Salerno Container Terminal, the larger vessels is an opportunity to take advantage of at best and this will be possible only if they will be inserted in a logistic system more wide one involving all the territory, currently imperceptible system. The ports - it has observed - must have the port-portal function so as to insert and to connect which calibrated infrastructural lines on the traffic flows.

According to Enzo Esposito, managing director of Emes International, the widening of the channel of inaugurated Panama hat Sunday slid, with the limit of ability to about 13.000 teu to the ships that can cross it, places a term to the dimensional increase of the portacontenitori.

In its Roberto Bucci participation of the Flavio Gioia Terminal it has evidenced as the larger vessels they represent lays a trap for the multipurpose terminal rather than an opportunity. In the period of great uncertainty in which the total market and that of the shipping they are found, for the small terminalistiche truths, as that Neapolitan, naval gigantism represents therefore a factor to monitor with extreme caution, above all for the impossibility to carry out forecasts in the long term and to quantify the type of investments.

The convention is continued with a second session that has seen two participations of character more specifically technical faces to introduce new technologies to the service of the containerized traffics, first of Alberto Ghiraldi of the Passive Refrigeration Solutions who has illustrated the technology of the container to passive refrigeration, that he offers the opportunity to operate on board prescinding from external electric power supplies reducing the costs and increasing safety of the ships, and the second of Miki Ferrari di Fly Technologies, centralized on a new technology of scanning of the containers based on the gamma ray, that the means scanning affords in motion also, without need of pauses and problems of danger radioactive for the people and the goods.

The third session of the work has brought to light the impact of naval gigantism on earth infrastructures and the distributive technology. Marco Spinedi, president of the Interporto of Bologna, has rimarcato how much the ability to hold of the giants of the sea represents an occasion to pick for interposing investing you in the intermodalità, above all in railway infrastructures. Antonio Pandolfo di Newcoop, company that takes care of the distributive logistics on the Sicilian territory, has put in evidence as the drafts of the great ships will not be able however to carry to a disappearance of the smaller so-called ports as the question exists and must be satisfied. Celso Paganini, administrator of Porto Pavino LLC and ideatore of the Bella Vita brand that takes care to export produced ortofrutticoli from Italy to the United States, has emphasized the possibilities of development of the Italian market ortofrutticolo in the USA, also because the transport costs from Italy is inferior regarding the transport from West Coast to the East Coast. Paola Bottigliero di Saimare Naples, agency and customs broker, have spoken about the problematic ones of interface with the customs authorities, of the slowness in the attainment of the full functionality of the only door and of always you anticipate bureaucratic difficulties that meet with the concept of stravolgimento of the current infrastructural patrimony that naval gigantism would involve.