The Practical Handbook of Maritime Traffic drawn up by the Association of Genoese Shipping Agents Fifty years in conjunction with the eightieth anniversary celebrated this year by Assagenti herself. The publication, which has become the reference text not only for the category of agents and maritime brokers but also for the entire cluster of the sea and ports, since 1975 has allowed the training of the students of the Assagenti as well as university students and professionals of all kinds.

The new edition also required an amalgamation of the texts and points of view of people and experts, even if not directly involved in the operations of the category. The contents of the latest version of the Manual, which were illustrated in Genoa by the president of the Genoese agents, Gianluca Croce, in the presence of the Deputy Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, and of the president of Federagenti, Paolo Pessina, were in fact curated by a large panel of authors, many had already contributed to the edition of 12 years ago, to which new Names: A group of high-level experts, each dealing with their themes with their individual peculiarities and specializations.

The book, coordinated by Gian Enzo Duci, with the collaboration of of Assagenti's secretariat, in particular Iolanda Garzia and Sergio Tripodi, is divided into thirteen chapters with a first part dedicated to the habitat in which maritime traffic develops: the sea, the ports and the geography of the market, what moves by sea. The ship is the protagonist of the second part, with the chapter on the administrative and economic regime of the ship, and the one on the technical and inspection regime. The central chapter deals with the issues of the individual professions related to the world of shipping: the maritime company and the shipmanager, the agent the shipper, the freight forwarder and the shipping broker. Contracts maritime issues are the subject of in-depth analysis in the third part together to the insurance part and to the P&I Clubs. on the activities of liner and tramp shipping agencies, the passenger transport and the yachting world.