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Confetra exhorts to adopt in Italy the procedure that allows with the Hanjin ships to land in Germany and Spain
Marcucci: "the time tightens and there is the fear that in many cases the damages become infallible"
September 28, 2016
Confetra, the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics, asks that in Italy the same procedure applied in Spain and Germany is adopted in order to allow the drainage of the containers from the ships of the company of South Korean navigation Hanjin Shipping, that mail in controlled administration has introduced request for being.
Evidencing that procedure, that avoids the risk of the seizure of the goods, turns out estendibile to all the Countries of the European Union, Confetra emphasizes that if Italy will not establish it about 5.000 destined containers to Italian operators at the end will be unloaded in foreign ports with additional costs estimated in beyond 20 million euros in damage of the logistic let alone industrial operators and commercial Italians. The precise Confederation that is simple to calculate the final damage knowing that within November the waited for containers are about 15.000.
Manifest Confetra appreciation for the diplomatic pressures that the Italian government, through the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports and the Ministry of the Economic Development, has exercised up to now on that Korean because he induces Hanjin to engage itself in order to limit the enormous damages that commercial Italian is provoking to the productive system and. However Confetra, with Fedespedi and Federagenti, the federations that represent the Italian shippers and shipping agents, speeds up an ulterior engagement of the two ministries so that Hanjin warehouses urgently near the Appeals Court of Rome a resource in order to obtain "legal protection" that it allows with the Korean ships to berth in the Italian ports without to run the risk of being seized with all their cargo.
"The time tightens - the president of the Confetra perceives, Nereo Marcucci - and is the fear that in many cases the damages become infallible".
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