Road show of the port of in the USA



The port of is introduced to the operators of New York within a combined mission in the USA organized from the Authority of System of the Ligurian Sea Oriental and from Contship Italy, group of which takes part La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), the society that manages the homonymous container terminal of the port of call breaks.

"The stage of New York - the director has explained marketing and communication of Contship Italy, Daniele Testi - is inserted as its is the first port for volumes exchanged in export with La Spezia, to the service of the main areas of production of the East North and Italy center that are served through a net of intermodal services to vhf (Milan, Padua, Reggio Emilia, Verona etc). Between the 2017 and 2016 volumes exchanged between La Spezia and New York have grown of 9% with results online confirmed with the first eight months of 2018 when the volumes in import and export have been pairs to 43.000 teu".

"The port of - the general secretary of the Authority of System of the Ligurian Sea has remembered Oriental, Francesco Di Sarcina - is according to gateway for number of containers enlivened in Italy, with a quota transport via advanced railroad to 30% that is three times the average of the other Italian ports. It is also the first port of call in Italy to have obtained vital considerable by the private ones. They are previewed 328 million euros of investments private compounds public, that they will allow with the port of call to increase its surface of 25%. With these investments, and the collaboration of the marine cluster and the shippers spezzini, we are trusting that the volumes exchanged with the USA and Canada will be able to benefit of competitive services not only limited to the Italian markets but also towards the areas of the South and Centro Europa. In next the 24 months we will be engaged with the concessionaires in order to grow the market share in export towards the USA and New York in particular through the La Spezia port".

Road the show of the port of in the United States is begun 10th September with an encounter with representatives of Port Authority di New York-New Jersey and with operators specialized in trade the Italy-USA. The initiative will continue, for the Contship delegation, in Canada, to Toronto, for a series of encounters one-to-one.