Concluded the mission to Singapore of the The International Propeller Clubs



In the mission to Singapore realized last week from the The International Propeller Clubs, the second one in Asia after that of Hong Kong and Shenzhen of November 2017, the delegates of the Italian association have met operators and representatives of the institutions of the city state being confronted on various topics, beginning from the Chinese initiative for the creation of a new Via of the Silk that has been to the center of the conference "the Initiative Belt & Road: a vision of the Italian Marine Cluster and Singapore" that it has been organized with the partnership scientific of SRM and that it has seen also the collaboration of the National Universiy of Singapore.

The Italian delegation also has visited the port of Singapore, in particular the Pasir Panjag Terminal and the new harbour port of call of Tuas currently under construction and that in 2040, once completed, it will have an extension of 1.400 hectares and an ability to traffic of 65 million teu.

Moreover in the course of the mission various encounters and reunions with trade associations of the shipping have been carried out, of the logistics and the bunkeraggio (Singapore Logistic Association, International Bunker Industry Association, Singapore Shipping Association, Singapore Maritime Foundation) and a visit to the Singapore Exchange, the Stock exchange of Singapore, first society to car to subscribe in Asia and that in 2016 it has acquired The Baltic Exchange of London.

The mission has concluded with the presentation on "Italian Logistics and Shipping - Focus on the North West Italy organized Logistics system" from the associations of the Lombardic shippers and Spediporto and Alsea.

"During these four days - the president of the The International Propeller Clubs has commented, Umberto Masucci - we have had a chance for know the excellence better than Singapore, is harbour is economic and, as in all missions To propel, we have introduced ourselves as "system", illustrating the best practices Italian of shipping, logistics and shipbuilding and the measures of the last harbour reform that they have I redate overhong to our ports of call. We can say that also this of Singapore has been a team success and would want to thank in particular the Italian ambassador to Singapore, Raffaele Langella, for to us to have assisted is in the planning of the mission, is on the spot".