Shipping agents, customs officers and freight forwarders in La Spezia protest again against the lifting of the decentralisation of the customs control operations with respect to the port, which allowed to carry them out directly in companies' warehouses, among other things allowing authorised and strictly authorised private operators to to keep the goods in the foreign state in their warehouses and therefore to carry out operations in the appropriate time customs clearance in warehouses. The associations of the three categories denounced that, although for now the effectiveness of the measure has recently been suspended by the Administrative Court Regional, the local customs administration has communicated, also for reasons of staff shortages, the elimination of these Procedures of the two customs links assigned to operators and the desire to concentrate all the operations of custom clearance and control of goods in the Single Clearance Centre Services in Santo Stefano Magra.

The Association of Shipping Agents of La Spezia, the Association of La Spezia Customs Officers (A.Spe.Do.) and the Freight Forwarders Association of the Port of La Spezia have shown that this has led to the halt to the storage of goods in the foreign state and to the fluidity customs operations, and this "right in the port of of La Spezia that had made this fluidity over the years one of the reasons for its operational success, with a strong penalization at local level, given that customs procedures continue to apply to operators located beyond the of the Apennines'. The three associations pointed out that "With this innovation, ten years ago, the port of La Spezia had placed itself at the forefront, as laboratory for the experimentation of new procedures capable of reconcile with the market and with the need to streamline the logistics, to enhance the territory with important repercussions enabling two operators to manage procedures customs authorities using precise routes between the port of La Spezia and the warehouses of these companies located in the hinterland of Santo Stefano Magra. But right now that of customs corridors and use of the hinterlands, not only as the operational lungs of ports congested areas, but also as logistical bases for The goods, with the consequent customs services, are speaks with increasing insistence and that the Agency itself National Customs declares its intention to promote Innovation - complained agents, customs officers and freight forwarders La Spezia - from La Spezia, a pioneer in the field, comes a diametrically opposed signal that could generate jurisprudence, turning into a precedent "boulder" for all the backport projects underway in Italy'.

According to the three associations, "it is essential to joint reflection involving public administration and also the Port System Authority to avoid a local A completely unexpected damage but also an anti-historical mortgage on the operation of the entire Italian port-logistic system that in recent months, belatedly, he seemed to have discovered The Strategic Importance of a Rational Connection and a harmonisation of services and procedures'.