the port of Gioia Tauro, after the agreement with New York, forms an alliance also with Shanghai in order to promote the East-West marine route via Suez



The Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro and the Shanghai International Port (Group) Co. (SIPG), the society that manages the harbour terminals publics of the port of Shanghai, have undersigned a gemallaggio agreement. The understanding is signed today in the offices of the Chinese harbour society to Shanghai to the presence of representatives of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, with which a year it makes the Italian harbour agency has tightened an analogous agreement of collaboration ( on 27 January 2012).

The new agreement represents the completion of a strategy that has the objective to favor and to stimulate the increase of the commercial exchanges between Asia, the Mediterranean and the coast oriental of the United States with the port of Gioia Tauro which hub of reference and with it I use of the route of the Suez Canal that, regarding the transpacifici connections - it has emphasized the calabrian harbour agency - offers puts up guarantees in terms of efficiency and reliability.

Thanks to the two understandings sign to New York and Shanghai, the three harbour institutions will start an immense advertising campaign on the aim to stimulate the route of Suez as alternative to that transpacifica. In this optical, they will develop campaigns of presentation of the respective ports and will produce to commercial studies on the coordinates the East-West with respect to the greater one I use inside of the way Suez of the routes of international navigation.

To the today's ceremony of subscription of the agreement they have taken part for the port of Gioia Tauro, the general secretary of the Harbour Authority, Salvatore Silvestri, that it has signed the twinning, accompanied by Domenico Bagalà, managing director of the terminalista society Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT); for the harbour Authority of Shanghai the general manager has signed the understanding Zhang Lin accompanied by Sandy Wong, exchange and cooperation division; for the American harbour authority he has taken part to the ceremony Mu Lan, chief representative of Port Authority of New York to Shanghai. Moreover to the institutional encounter the consul general of Italy to Shanghai has participated also, Vincenzo De Luca.

"We are pleased - the general manager of Port Authority di Shanghai Zhan Lin has declared - to have reached this objective. Draft of a cooperation agreement that places the bases for a common increase. Gioia Tauro - he has specified - is the only Italian port with which we have tightened an agreement of this genre".

"We have started - the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has commented, Salvatore Silvestri - a sinergico distance with the international ports more important on the world, graces also to the centrality of the port of Gioia Tauro. Our next appointment will see to us, newly with, to Gioia Tauro in the next month of june. We will have the pleasure to receive the Harbour Authority of Shanghai and that of New York with field operators whom they will want to visit Gioia Tauro. It will be the occasion, also, in order to work in synergy with the local institutions, firstly with the Calabria Region that has placed between own priorities the development and the support of our port of call".

In the Sylvan course of the ceremony it has illustrated the peculiarities of the port of Gioia Tauro, having turned mainly the attention to the opportunities that the Italian port of call is able to offer to possible international investor. Moreover it has been stopped on the infrastructural programming of development that the Harbour Authority has put in field in support of the ulterior increase of the port of call: in particular Sylvan it has illustrated the project of the inserted railway gateway, between those of particular strategic importance, in the Agreement of Program Picture undersigned from the Calabria Region, the Harbour Authority and RFI. "Draft - it has explained Sylvan - of an intermodal terminal called to intercept the traffics between the Far East and Europe". Sylvan important project has mentioned also another, about to editing, for the realization of an integrated platform multimedia: "it will be - it has specified - an innovative system of communication which put on of the public bodies, the harbour operators and the users of the port. The platform will facilitate, after to have mappato the entire harbour area, through a system of connection to broadband, the transmission of documents and the relative communications in order to guarantee, in this way, the simplification of practical the bureaucratic ones".

Sylvan therefore it has been stopped on the opportunities offered to the possible foreign investor from the Bonded area of the harbour area of Gioia Tauro. "The bonded areas not intercluse, as it is exactly that of our port of call - it has evidenced Sylvan - represent a particular type, conceived so as to not to be burdened from fences and points of access places from the State, the formalities and the typical controls of the traditional bonded areas, with formality and applicable customs obligations simplified and second the modalities of the regime of the customs warehouse". Sylvan also the transformation of the Franca Doganale Zone has anticipated to anticipates the project of regarding the Calabria Region in a real Special Economic Zone where it will be able to be benefitted of important fiscal facilities, emphasizing that the current dimension of the Bonded area of 80 hectares will be extended until to arrive to 700 hectares.

In its participation the managing director of the MCT of the group Contship Italy has found as the analysis of the strengths of the port of Shanghai, that 32 million teu 2012 are the first port of the world () and are integrated with one of special the economic zones more important of the planet (Waigaoqiao 10 kilometers pictures, 250,000 occupied, more than two thousand companies which installed from the opening year, 1995, than curious coincides with that of beginning of the activity to the port of Gioia Tauro), "confirms the fundamental importance that behind covers the availability of special an economic zone of the port for the development of the territory in terms of progress and occupation. Joy - it has found Domenico Bagalà - is today only the hub international not to have really operating industrial a logistic zone/to connected it. Thanks to the traffic of transhipment the terminal of Joy it directly returns all the markets of the world accessible offering connections weeklies magazine with 120 ports. This - it has observed the manager of Medcenter Container Terminal - is a condition necessary, but unfortunately not sufficient in order to attract in the area direct investments foreign countries. The obtaining of the status of Special Economic Zone - it has emphasized - is not procrastinabile and represents the only one via, together with the promotion of the traffic on iron, for the development of the retroportuale area of Gioia Tauro who is the hub natural for the center south of the Country and that, it is useful to remember, he counts many inhabitants how much Australia".

"Italy - the consul general of Italy to Shanghai has remembered, Vincenzo De Luca - is the third world-wide partner for the commercial ports with China. He is, therefore, indispensable to find optimal solutions in terms of costs and transit times in order to connect Shanghai and the Italian ports. This agreement goes exactly in the auspicious direction".