This evening genoese SAAR Depositi Portuali celebrates 85 years of activity



Tonight to Genoa, with an event to Palace Saint George, center of the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western, SAAR Depositi Portuali Spa will celebrate its 85 years of activity in the field of the oil traffic vegetables and fat people animals (oil of sunflower, coconut, peanuts and palm). The recurrence will be celebrated by hours 18,00 with the presentation of a photographic book that travels over again the activity of the SAAR, but also an important piece of the port of Genoa to which the society it is tied by solid relationships of tradition and collaboration.

With its 100,000 cubic metres of tanks, with the pole of Ravenna, SAAR represent the larger terminal in the Mediterranean for oils vegetables. The turnover of the society is quadruplicated by 3,8 million euros of 1996 to 12 million euros of 2017 and the force job is doubled by 26 to 46 dependent. The investment programs of the society preview, in agreement also with the development plans of the Authority of Harbour System, an increment of storage capability of about 20% (20,000 cubic metres) with the construction of new tanks besides continuous the system modernization.

The history of the company has had beginning in 1931 when the Piaggio family founded a structure for the commercial import, storage and exchanges from the name Joint-stock companies Reunited Africans (today acronym SAAR). Then it was found to Paleocapa Bridge, behind the lazaretto that accommodated the ships in quarantine, and that taken afterwards to the name of Descent Health. In 1972 Andrea Maria Piaggio, then managing director of Mira Lanza, yielded the society to the Bonomi group that gives that moment, through the controlled Saffa, assumed the SAAR control. The carried out point of for SAAR was the decision, in 1990, to construct an own dock, only operation in the harbour within. Still today SAAR is only terminalista owner of own spaces in port.

"The decision to acquire SAAR - the president of the company has explained, Alfredo Companini Bonomi - has been the happy outcome of a community of interests and circumstances that have reunited some friends. Besides me, naturally Beppe Costa and Paolo Marsano". "The choice to acquire SAAR - the managing director Giuseppe Costa has remembered - is formalized in December of that year, the day in which you complete 39 years". "Task with pride - it has emphasized Paolo Marsano - than the SAAR has known to innovate to the same levels of companies mean-large already notes for their excellence. It has been equipped of system, organizational systems, procedures, putting up with some the burdens for business choice, than of it they have made a great company, an example of innovation in own field". The director of the company, Franco Tarabotto, has manifested satisfaction and pride in order to have been able to carefully see all the phases that have formed the change from a small truth to the modern enterprise today.