The next week a delegation of Propeller Clubs Italian will go to Hong Kong and Shenzhen



The next week, from the 21 on 24 November, a thick delegation of the Italian association The International Propeller Clubs will go to Hong Kong and Shenzhen in occasion of the important international conference "Asian Logistic & Maritime Conference" and of "Hong Kong Maritime Week". The mission is organized with the Association Italy Hong Kong, Invest Hong Kong and HKTDC and with the support of Omlog and Banchero Costa.

"This travel - the national president of Propeller Clubs has explained Italian, Umberto Masucci - has a strong strategic value because it represents real "road a show" of the new Italian portualità to a year of distance from the effectiveness of the harbour reform".

"There are - it has anticipated Riccardo Fuochi, president of the Association Italy Hong Kong and vice-president of Propeller Clubs - numerous tables of job in Asia. The two to which we will attend to Hong Kong and Shenzhen are between the more important and are fundamental for Italy to be anticipate in these important decisional contexts. In fact all our ports can play a strategic role and this mission represents the occasion in order to introduce a logistic system that aims for integration between harbour areas and logistics centers and distributive".

They will participate to the mission, between the others, Paolo Emilio Signorini, president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western, Pietro Spirito, president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Central, and Sergio Prete, president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Ionian Sea, with the presidents of Assagenti Genoa, Alberto Banchero, and Spediporto Genoa, Alessandro Pitto.

The scientific part of the mission will be cured, as in the precedence occasions, from SRM of the group Understanding Saint Paolo (center studies specialized in marine, harbour and logistic matters). The Italian delegation will meet between the others, the minister of the Transports of Hong Kong, the associations of the shippers and the loaders and the Italian community of the region.

In the course of the mission it will come also signed the first agreement of twinning between the HAFFA (Hong Kong Association of Freight Forwarding & Logistics Ltd) and the Spediporto (Association Shippers Couriers and Conveyors of Genoa). "An historical agreement - it has emphasized president Pitto - than ago I keep on that which signed some years ago with Amburgo. We are honored of being able to start with HAFFA a collaboration distance that is determined, among other things, the creation of moments of I confront commercial, of spreading of good operating practical and transaction of eventual litigations".

Propeller national Club has specified that a day then will be dedicated to the visit in China of the Special Economic Area of Shenzhen, one of the more healthy important and of the world, where cues for the Italian ZES will be able also to be drawn. The ZES in fact, previewed from the Italian government in the so-called one "I decree South" have become the by now most diffuse instrument all over the world in order to attract international investments. In the seventh annual report of SRM - Propeller has remembered national Club - law "if in 1997 the ZES number were pairs to about 845 in 93 Countries, such value currently is gone up to about four thousand and involves about 135 Countries".

"This time - it has concluded Masucci - we will be able, regarding the precedence abroad organized missions from Propeller (Morocco, Spain, Greece), to reaffirm our leadership in many fields of the shipping but not only to show also in Far East the important progresses started from the Italian portualità".