This year the association of Genoese shipping agents Assagenti celebrates the eightieth anniversary of its establishment on 27 July 1945, with Luigi Scerni as its first president, through a series of events that will open on February 26 with a meeting intended for members with pilots of the port of the capital Ligurian. This will be followed on March 5 by the Career day organized by Unige and totally dedicated to Assagenti.

The association recalled that the foundation of Assagenti is occurred a few weeks after April 25, 1945 when an entire German military contingent, under the command of General Gunther Meinhold, surrendered in Genoa to the forces of the Resistance. In the five years of the Second World War the bombing of Genoa from sea and from the sky had not only destroyed three-quarters of the industrial establishments, but they had left the port on their knees; and the damage caused by the French and English fleets or by the Anglo-American bombers were added in the last days of war those to the port facilities brought by the German troops who mined and blew up sections of the breakwater, put dry docks and mechanical systems are out of order, scattered 140 mines in the port and sank dozens of boats of all types and sizes. At the end of the conflict There were 320 ships and 615 floats lying on the seabed of the port. Three years later, in 1948, two-thirds of the wrecks were recovered and 70% of the port structures had recovered the 70% of pre-war capacity.