Mission of the port of Venice in Georgia



The port of Venice is invited to participate to the international summit Belt&Road Forum, that it is in development yesterday and today to Tiblisi, capital of the Georgia, in quality of representative of the main European marine terminal in order to connect Asia and the old long continent the Way of the Silk. The event is promoted by the Prime Minister of the Georgia and has been organized from the Ministries of the Economy and of the Foreign policies and they take to part beyond 15 ministers and representatives to you of the institutions of 34 Countries and companies of 50 nations for a total of beyond thousands delegated.

In the course of the mission guided by Pino Musolino, president of the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale, and turns to not only favor the development of economic and commercial relations for the benefit of the port of Venice but also of the enterprises of the Italian Northeast, Musolino, thanks to the support of the Italian Embassy, has met some between the highest institutional charges as the deputy prime minister and minister of the Georgian Economy, Dimitry Kumsishvili, the mayor of Tbilisi, Kakha Kaladze, already minister of the Energy and the natural resources and according to deputy prime minister of the government, and the general manager Mobilità and Trasporti of the EU commission, Henrik Hololei.

From the commercial point of view, a series of B2B encounters has been organized with the enterprises and Georgian operators between which the CEO of the port of Anaklia, Levan Akhvlediani, the general manager of APM Terminals Poti, Klaus Holm Laursen, that the Venetian delegation to the port will receive tomorrow of Prunes for a visit to harbour infrastructures.

"The Georgia - Musolino has remembered - is one of the intermediate countries along the Way of the Silk of XXI the Century and, as Venice, it represents an extraordinary door of income to the markets inland. To establish long-lasting commercial relations with the Georgian ports means, for Venice, to be able to count on commercial flows in import and export towards some of the markets more potential high. The road of Marco Polo does not have to be therefore thought as a mere connection from and towards China, but it offers the occasion to us of being able to reach new markets of outlet and to activate traffics online with the Venetian excellence which the iron and steel field and break producing bulk but also the traffic of ortofrutticoli".

The AdSP of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale has evidenced that the Georgia, that has highly strategic a geographic position being put forward on the Black Sea and neighbor with Turkey, Azerbaigian and Russia, among other things is crossed by commercial flows that guarantee to the nation a good economic increase: from 65% to 95% of the flows of cargo in entrance they are destined to the transit. Just for this reason the Georgian government is oriented to develop still more the logistic field offering to various services and commercial incentives to its partner between which: not tax for the transit goods, flood transparency of the customs services, a modern and effective logistic system and a net of equipped modern terminals of efficient equipments.