Spediporto presses for the creation of the Green Logistic Valley, the ZLS close to the port of Genoa

A phase of crisis that - pitto specified - has, among other things, profoundly changed important segments of the logistics market, starting from that of maritime transport that - he explained referring in particular to containerized shipping - from a Convenient and reliable mode has turned into a 'expensive and unreliable' mode of transport, which - has pointed out - proposes rates that go "beyond any reasonableness'.

On the subject of infrastructure, the examination of the president of Spediporto, has gone from works of global scope such as the Belt and Road Initiative, which - he noted - could be subject to revision, to projects of a regional and local nature like the one for the construction of the Gronda di Genova, the new motorway section for the doubling of fast roads crossing the Ligurian capital. Pitto has therefore focused on the Simplified Logistics Zone and above all on a project dear to Spediporto, that of the Green Logistic Valley from settle in the Genoese territory of Valpolcevera, immediately to close to the port. Particularly important in fact, according to the association of freight forwarders, is the location of this logistics area, much more advantageous - he explained Pitto - with respect to the establishment of these activities in distance from the port of call. ZLS placed halfway between port and markets that - observed the president of Spediporto - they risk creating dysfunctions rather than benefits. An example virtuous - Pitto clarified - is that of the port of Barcelona and its intermodal logistics platform ZAL established with the aim, achieved, to develop traffic maritime through high-level logistics services and infrastructures added value and that, born to occupy 100 thousand square meters, today covers over 900 thousand square meters, giving work to more of 9 thousand people, and has attracted dozens of primary companies worldwide importance.

A crucial aspect for the development of ports and of the Genoese logistics highlighted by Pitto is also that of digitalization and information technology. The President of freight forwarders remarked on the need to bring the Port Community System, the IT systems integration platform of the various components of the supply chain that operates with the port of Genoa, at a higher level, with complete digitalization of the port process. It is unthinkable - he held to specify Pitto referring to who will be in charge of achieve this goal - that the governance of a system central as the PCS is not in the hands of the community harbour.

The last topic briefly addressed by Spediporto was that of the reform of the Port Authorities, a reform that indeed it has already been implemented with the legislative decree n. 169 of 4 August 2016 with the transformation of these entities into Port System Authority. A renewal of the port legislation which at the time had received the applause from many of the interested parties and that today, but already yesterday and the day before yesterday, it is considered insufficient. She's back therefore the question of what administrative form is topical or legal give to the entity that governs a port or a system harbour. A question that, at the end of the assembly, Spediporto and its president, who has reached the end of his mandate, have placed to the mayoral candidates in the administrative elections of Genoa in program next June 12 that this morning they spoke at the convention of freight forwarders.