prompt Confetra the involvement of the government in order to face the consequences of the crisis of Hanjin Shipping



Confetra, the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics, has sped up the involvement of the government in order to face the consequences of the event of the insolvency of the South Korean society of armament Hanjin Shipping, seventh company to the world of the transport containers.

The Confederation has emphasized that this crisis is creating alarm and worry in the Italian logistic world, with the block for thousands of contractual nonperformance of container which placed on the docks of the Italian ports and with the damage for all the operators of the logistic chain until the importers and exporter that is assuming meaningful dimensions in spite of the formal collaboration of the Hanjin Italy, the marine agency of the Gastaldi group that represents in Italy the South Korean company.

President of Confetra, Nereo Marcucci, has addressed to ministers Gentiloni, Delrio and Calenda asking they for wanting himself to use regarding the Korean diplomatic representation so that a picture updated reliable on the real financial statement and operating of Hanjin is supplied, estimating all the solutions possible in order to attenuate to the damages and the uneasiness that the situation is creating.

While in order to tackle to the heaviest consequences tied to the crisis financial institution of Hanjin Shipping, that they have hit also the Italian shippers, has held to Genoa a technical table on initiative of Spediporto, the association of the genoese shippers, to which representatives of the national federation Fedespedi, terminaliste societies SECH and VTE of Genoa, of the association of the genoese shipping agents Assagenti and the leadership of Hanjin Italy have participated.

In the course of the encounter it has been discussed about legitimacy of the demanded securities for the withdrawal of the containers, in truth of amount decidedly elevated regarding the figures demanded in various important ports foreign countries, of the management of shipments a lot in import that export, of the modalities of payment of the shipowning and agenziali competences and the management of the transports in joint.

Al term of the reunion is characterized a proposal formulated from Fedespedi and Spediporto, received positively from the terminalisti presents and the same company, which previews that the shippers through an appropriate policy, valevole on a national level stipulated from Fedespedi, will guarantee are the terminals that the company of the ready one gives back of the empty ones once concluded the import operations.

Spediporto has emphasized that it is the first time that adopts a solution of this genre that, preserving the faculty of the associates to join to you less or, will on a national level allow a total release of the situation where they are already you anticipate beyond thousand containers. "The will - the general manager of the association has explained, Giampaolo Botta - is that to avoid thousands of claims between company and shippers, not simple enterprise since today the containers of the whom blocked international shippers are thousands in Italy and that they are accumulateing strong delays in the deliveries. - It has specified Blow - penal for they are delayed delivery, perishable good on containers on the trip or already disembarked, costs for hundreds of thousands of euros that mature every day. Moreover there are thousands of firm containers in sea of which one does not have information on those which they could be the times of the delivery. In a moment of the year where they begin to travel the goods for the next Christmas".

Blow has evidenced that, "also in the most difficult moment, the staff and the direction of Hanjin great availability and professionalities have shown; ridottissima the possibility to arrange and to decide (the address lines is dictated by the group leader Hanjin International) - it has emphasized the general manager of Spediporto - has not made to fail a strong collaboration of the dependent to which our solidarity goes".