The presidents of the La Spezia associations of shipping agents, Giorgia Bucchioni, freight forwarders, Alessandro Laghezza, and customs officers, Bruno Pisano, highlighted the importance of of the Interporto di Santo Stefano Magra, relaunching the role of the strategic of what turned out to be - they underlined - one of the fundamental assets to make attractive the port of La Spezia, of which the Interporto is an integral part, thanks to the short distance from the port - only six kilometres by motorway link - which makes the areas of Santo Stefano the Long quay of the La Spezia port.

The importance of the Freight Village is also highlighted In the light of the concern raised by the launch of the lifting of the Authorisations for customs corridors inspected in terminals St. Stephen's Day, which - recalled the presidents of the three La Spezia associations - was carried out by the Customs of the La Spezia bucks the trend with laudable innovative initiatives throughout the national territory, and which obliged the operators to challenge the procedure by means of an appeal to the General Court Regional Administrative Board, which immediately granted the suspension of the measure, at least temporarily foiling - underlined Bucchioni, Laghezza and Pisano - the risk of numerous redundancies.

In the development of the City of Logistics in the Interporto of Santo Stefano Magra - observed the three Presidents - Public-private collaboration must remain one of the founding pillars of the "Spezia System" because This is the only way to create new economies for the territory, for the port of La Spezia and to maintain and increase the good occupation. For this reason, they concluded, the public-private collaboration of the La Spezia System, especially on Santo Stefano Magra, essential to the integration of customs between the port and its freight village, built in over ten years by Customs Agency and private warehouses which, also here first, Italy, have activated the inspection corridors, operational models of efficiency from which all the procedures have been inspired of goods by train and truck.