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the ambassador American in Italy has visited the port of Gioia Tauro
John Philips was accompanied by the consul general of the United States to Naples, Mary Allen Countryman
October 5, 2016
Today the ambassador of the United States near the Italian Republic, John Philips, and the consul general of the United States to Naples, Mary Allen Countryman, has visited the port of Gioia Tauro within a series of encounters with the highest institutional charges in Calabria.
the two diplomats Americans are received by the extraordinary commissioner and the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Andrea Agostinelli and Saverio Spatafora. Agostinelli. To the reunion they have taken to part also the marine director of the Calabria and the Basilicata Tirrenica, Giancarlo Russo, and the commander of the Harbour office of Gioia Tauro, Francesco Chirico.
Agostinelli has illustrated the activities of the port of call emphasizing that "draft of an important port for the economic development of the Calabria and Southern Italy. Al fine to improve and to support its ulterior development - it has explained - firmly we are engaged in the start of an articulated infrastructural programming, than it is developed in various activities. Between these, of strategic importance they are the railway gateway and the dry dock, important in order to strengthen our port which hub of reference of the Mediterranean. Anyway, this agency - it has emphasized - is about to transform in the more important Authority than System of our Country".
ambassador Philips has expressed "appreciation for the high level of competences and professionalities put in field daily from all the leaders, civil employees and operators of the port of Gioia Tauro. A lot important has been about to me - it has specified - to know intimately between the greatest commercial ports of the Mediterranean, and that it contributes in considerable way to the economy of the Calabria"
the encounter has concluded with a long tour the harbour channel, on board of a motor patrol vessel of the Marine Direction of the Calabria, with the objective to introduce to know intimately the harbour infrastructure.
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Today the ambassador of the United States near the Italian Republic, John Philips, and the consul general of the United States to Naples, Mary Allen Countryman, has visited the port of Gioia Tauro within a series of encounters with the highest institutional charges in Calabria.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
