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March 25, 2011
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- A delegation of the customs of Syria visited the port of Venice
- In 2010, the interchange between the port and the Middle Eastern nation was equal to 1,500 trailers and over 20 thousand containers
 A delegation of 20 officers of Customs of Syria visited the port of Venice with the aim of studying the best practices of Italian airports with which the Middle Eastern nation has more contacts and above all the ports that have invested heavily in setting up computer systems and telematics technology. The delegation also includes a visit to the port of Livorno.
- The meeting was sponsored by the Venice Community customs sector chief, Maurice Zincone, and funded by the trade support of the European Commission. The Syrian delegation has met with their Italian government that deal with security of the port in Venice to illustrate the different contexts - Italian and Syrian - are common problems in the operation of port security with particular reference to fraud and Managemet of the risk frontier.
- In this context, Venice is the first Italian port has to have a "multi-agency" which, thanks to an integrated platform of Port Community of customs and security, can electronically manage the entire documentation in export of goods, even before the ship hit the dock.
- After the discussion of EU and national policies that support risk analysis, the visit continued with a demonstration of the operation of mobile scanner supplied to the security forces operating in the Venetian port for control of incoming truck freight and ferries passengers and fixed scanner located in Porto Marghera.
- The visit also follows the agreement reached between Venice and the ports of Tartous, which provides for the implementation and simplification of customs policies in order to speed up port operations in both Syria and Italy (
 of 1 February 2010).
- Stressing the "ever closer relations between the Venetian port and ports in Syria," the secretary general of the Port Authority of Venice, Franco Sensini, noted that "increased trade is now, and even more in the future, a undoubted opportunities for the port of Venice, but at the same time, imposes new challenges in terms of security, protection of workers and the environment, and in terms of prevention of crime, terrorism or the violations of international trade '.
- "The interchange between the port of Venice and Syria - said Sensini - in 2010 amounted to 1,500 trailers (trucks) and over 20 thousand TEUs (containers), numbers set to increase thanks to the positive direct lines operated by Visemar Sermar Line and Line. "
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