Paolo Pessina, outgoing president of the Agents Association seafarers of Genoa, is the new president of Federagenti, the National Federation of Shipping Agents and Agents. Initially, Pessina will work alongside the incumbent president Alessandro Santi, who will end his term on 25 October. mandate and formally pass the baton to the new chairman.

"The assembly of Federagenti, which met yesterday in Rome, underlined Alessandro Santi - deliberated unanimously in an absolutely cohesive way that the new president will be Paolo Pessina. With great satisfaction we have demonstrated once again as much as Federagenti on the national shipping scene represents a unicum in terms of compactness and effectiveness of vision".

Pessina, who has a degree in economics and business, has a wealth of experience in in the port sector, as well as intermodal traffic. Trained in Angelo's Contship Group Ravano, Pessina has developed specific skills over the years in the ship-port relationship. In the four years at the top of Assagenti Among other things, Genoa has dedicated a concentrated effort to in the affirmation of the figure of the agent and the agent maritime sector, as a strategic central link at the interface between ship and port, between sea and land.

"My priority goal," Pessina said will be to encourage a compacting of the category on major objectives concerning the efficiency of the port offer, the competitiveness of the Italian system and the importance of fundamental role of the category'.