The AdSP of the Ligurian Sea Western has joined to the International Port Community Systems Association



The Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western has joined to the International Port Community Systems Association (IPCSA), the organization instituted to half 2011 as European Port Community Systems Association (ECPSA) that it works in order to promote the development and integration of the computer science platforms Port Community System (PCS) of the ports managed from the associates(on 21 June 2011). The Italian AdSP, that it administers the ports of Genoa and Savona - Vado Ligure, is the fortieth member of the IPCSA.

Remembering that Genoa has been the first Italian port to being integrated in the digital net of National the Logistic Platform, that he is created and he managed by the government with the scope to connect the marine ports and the logistics centers on the national territory and in order to promote the entire Italian logistic system, the president of the AdSP of the Ligurian Sea Western, Paolo Emilio Signorini, has specified that the two Port Community System of Genoa and Savona-Go will be integrated in the within of National the Logistic Platform and that this constitutes an innovative initiative regarding how much happens in other nations. Two PCS, system that for Savona goes back to 2005 and for Genoa to 2007, tries every year beyond 15 million relative electronic documents to the traffic of import/export, manages about 20.000 users, 1,500 companies and six container terminal.

Gentlemen have explained that the AdSP has decided to join to the IPCSA because the agency and the community of harbour operators of Genoa and Savona-Go has the intention of share this experience and learn this that is made in other national and international contexts.

Moreover Gentlemen have evidenced that in the past decade the traffic of the goods through the port of Genoa is increased of +61% and that meanwhile the time of execution of the import procedures is diminished of the -47%, turned out - has emphasized - than, since the harbour infrastructures and those of transport have remained the same ones almost, are reached thanks to the contribution of information the technology and to the development of the e-port. "In our case - it has observed - it is absolutely clearly that during the last few years the organization and the technology have carried out a crucial role in the development of our traffic. Our Port Community System - it has added Gentlemen - will be also the key for the future, when the traffic of the container - as expected - grows ulteriorly, and in order to enliven the peaks of traffic when the mega one portacontainer will call at the port".

"We are very pleased - the general secretary of the IPCSA, Richard Morton has declared - to welcome to the Ports of Genoa jib which our last member. To reach the quota 40 associate ones represents a true milestone for IPCSA that is founded in 2011 alone six European operators of Port Community System and from then it has expanded becoming an international association with a level of competences and experiences without equal and with strong relations with various international organisms between which the IMO, the WCO and the UN/CEFACT".