Mission of the The International Propeller Clubs in Greece for I confront between shipping Italian and that Greek one



The The International Propeller Italian national Clubs will lead from monday to thursday of the next week a mission in Greece, with the partnership scientific of SRM, the center studies connected to the Group Understanding Saint Paolo, with the scope to involve the entire Italian marine cluster in confronts with that Greek one.

Draft of the third mission of the Italian cultural association and will be an important moment of confronts between two Countries that entirety they represent beyond 28.4% of the European naval fleet and that they stablily reside in the nations Top 35 classified by the UNCTAD according to the Liner Shipping Connectivity Index that measure the degree of marine connectivity of a nation with the world.

"This year, after Morocco and Spain - the president of the The International Propeller Clubs has explained, Umberto Masucci - we have chosen Greece, Country from always legacy to Italy and with a marine cluster of absolute world-wide excellence. We will face thematic municipalities in the Mediterranean but also new international scenes in an optical to strengthen and to improve the commercial relations between Italy and Greece, also to light of the contained innovations in the Italian harbour reform".

The next week they are in program meet on the great topics of world-wide the marine strategy and about the Mediterranean and it will be spoken also about harbour reform and future perspectives. Some of the topic will be: the Way of the marine Silk, the investments of China in the ports of the Mediterranean, the harbour security and the future of the shipping.

Special attention will be turned to the analysis of the harbour models with particular reference to the Pireo, one of the main harbour ports of call of the Med area that in 2016 has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs almost 3,5 million teu, with an increase of +14.4% on 2015 and where a delegation of Propeller will carry out a specific visit.

The ceremony of opening of the mission will hold monday to hours 10,00 to the port of the Pireo on board of the ship Minoan Knossos and will be introduced by Umberto Masucci, president of The International Propeller Clubs, and by George Xiradakis, president of the The International Propeller Club the USA Piraeus.

It will follow the session dedicated to the shipping, from the title "Ulysses… Will never sail halo. Greek and Italian models, two successful stories, countering between two different business models", during which the panelist, moderated by Fabrizio Vettosi, managing director of Venice Shipping and Logistics, they will debate on the relations between Italy and Greece, the short sea shipping, the echo-shipping, the concentrations of the market, the role of China, the importance of the finance. To the encounter they will participate as keynote speakers Michele Francioni (CEO RINA Group), and Konstantinos Rokkos (CEO Trans Sea Transport International Group), and which relatori Theodore Kontes (president Union of Cruise Shipowners), Ioannis Kotzias (president Hellenic Shipbrokers), George Gratsos (president HELMEPA), George Pateras (president Hellenic Chamber of Shipping), Charalampos Simantonis (president Hellenic Shortsea Shipowners Association), Antonio Cancian (president RAM - Net Mediterranean Freeways), Antonio Talarico (P: L. Ferrari Group), Paolo Ferrandino (general secretary of the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale), Paul Kyprianou (responsible reports external Grimaldi Lines) and Lorenzo Matacena (member of the Board of Directors Charon & Tourist)

Alle 14,00, presided by Giorgia Boi, vice president The International Propeller Clubs, will hold the session "Shippng and educational aspects: Universities, challenges and perspectives", I confront between the university Italian (Genoa and Naples) and Greeks of the shipping with the participation of Seraphim Kapros (in charge of the Shipping department, Trade and Transport University of Aegean), Manolis Kavussanos (director International Shipping, Finance and Management, Athens University Economics and Business), Fani L. Sakellariadou (president and in charge of the Department Maritime Studies University of Piraeus), Assunta Di Vaio (university professor of Administration Business to the Parthenope University of Naples) and Anna Sciomachen (professor - Operations Research and Coordinator of the Council of Economics Study to the University of Genoa).

On 25 April to hours 10,00 near the Hellas Liberty Museum of the Pireo the session dedicated to the ports "To smooth sea will hold never made to skilled sailor. The challenges of the new maritime scenarios in the Mediterranean Sea" which they will participate, besides the representatives of the Greek portualità: Riccardo Fuochi (vice president The International Propeller Clubs), Alessandro Panaro (head of Maritime Dept. SRM - Intesa Sanpaolo Group), Andrea Agostinelli (head of II the Unit of the General Command of the Harbour offices), Maria Cristina Farina (managing of the Ministry of Transportation), Mario Sommariva (general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Orientale), Pietro Spirito (president of the Harbour Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Central) and Fabrizio Zerbini (CEO Trieste Container Terminal).

While today to the port of the Pireo, received from the managing director of the Harbour Authority of the Greek port of call, It was Chengqiu, it is received first nourished group of 250 Chinese crocieristi with an event that has held on board of the cruise ship Celestyal Olymia of the Celestyal Cruises, to the presence of the managing director of the Kyriakos Anastassiadis company. The event is framed in the initiatives for the development of Chinese crocieristico tourism in the Mediterranean promoted from the Harbour Authority of the Pireo, than by last year it is controlled by shipowning group Chinese COSCO Shipping ( on 5 July 2016).