The Associations of Shipping Agents, Customs Officers and Customs Officers shippers from La Spezia have launched an appeal for speed up the procedure to make it effectively operational the country's first port-centric Customs Free Zone and its hinterland of Santo Stefano Magra. Alexander Laghezza, representative of the La Spezia port community and President of the Freight Forwarders' Association, addressing first of all to the Customs Agency, highlighted the need for to speed up the process and to apply a standard, the one on ZFDs, provided for in Article 12, paragraph 5 of the President's Decree 40/2024 of the Council of Ministers, which entered into force on 17 April, which regulates the Simplified Logistics Zones and provides for the introduction, within them, of real Zones Customs Clearances.

"The Customs Free Zones," Laghezza pointed out represent a potentially decisive leap in quality: do not only allow the storage of goods in suspension of the payments and duties, but also make it possible to processing of these goods, favouring the establishment in the ZFD areas of real production activities. The fact that the spotlights have been turned on the port of La Spezia and the hinterland of Santo Stefano Magra - Laghezza underlined - has nothing to do with it. random: beyond what happens for other Logistics Zones Specials that require a design of spaces, areas parking and warehousing of goods, but also of services Shuttle to and from the port in symbiosis of which they are called to the one consisting of the La Spezia port and the hinterland is Already today, an operating system, a real plug & play system, able to guarantee full functionality in Very short timeframes'.