Alarm of Spediporto for the important impact of the Morandi emergency on the activity of the shippers



The association of the genoese shippers has launch an alarm for the remarkable impact negative on the activity of the represented companies that August is determined by the effects of collapse of the highway viaduct Morandi of half. The general manager of Spediporto, Giampaolo Botta, has announced that the relative data to the activity last month, that they are found by an investigation lead on a champion of 15% of the associates and that they evidence bendings of the -5% of the export and the -9,8% of the import, confirm also for the shippers a trend negative already anticipated from the harbour operators and the same Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western that in recent days the data of a -20% of the harbour taxes has diffused and of a cargo reduction that, as testified from the terminalisti, has succeeded in some cases to touch one -25%.

"The data, that they are those found during collection of the reimbursement questions and compensations started in the past weeks - has specified Blow - evidence as the damage for the shippers attests around 97 thousand euros/year; for the couriers the damage instead grows to 170 thousand euros/year and for the haulers it succeeds in to touch the average of 610mila/annui. If the data had to consolidate in the course of next months - it has emphasized the general manager of Spediporto - the genoese shippers could succeed in to lose to year-end a 10% in import and a 8% in export. In the same way the damages could exceed the esteem second 28 million euros".

"We need - the president of the association of the genoese shippers has remembered, Alessandro Pitto - to guarantee the fundamental services to the goods, in absence of a fundamental infrastructure as the Morandi; we must increase the quality of the services and reduce dwell the Time. We must understand that every minute saved in port is an euro saved for the market".

"We cannot - it has confirmed Blow - underrate humors of the market and its sensibility to the cost variations. I very fear the sottovalutazione of sure topics and the decrease of general attention on this crisis. Every 100 containers that escape from Genoa wants to say a put place of work to risk. If the data that are felt in these weeks found confirmation the impact on the occupation could be important and we must defend the occupation as first value of the port and our companies".

Referring to the bill 28th September managed from the government in order to tackle to the emergency happened to Genoa, the association of the shippers has evidenced the necessity that in the provision is faced in adequate way the topic of the deficiency of the organic ones of Public Administration used after the controls on the goods: Agency of Customs, USMAF, Phytopathologist; Veterinary, IZTS and ARPAL who - he has found Spediporto - need being able to reinforce own organic ones, to the aim to guarantee to the goods sure times in the controls.