Fat person (Assologistica) critical the worries on the expressed customs corridors from representatives of categories of the logistics



Sebastiano Grasso, vice president of Assologistica (Italian Association Enterprises of Logistics), critic with sour and lashing tones the observations and the worries on the expressed customs corridors recently from the representatives of shippers, shipping agents and of other categories of entrepreneurs of ( of the 26 and 30 March, 1, 1 and 7 April 2015). Fat person is managing director of the intermodal societies Sogemar and Hannibal of the group Contship Italy, group to which is under responsibility the terminalista society La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) that it manages the container terminal to the Fornelli Pier of the port of and that recently has absorbed the Speter, in its turn active on the Garibaldi Pier of the port breaks.

"It seems - the vice president of Assologistica considers - than many of these detractors (you anticipate above all in the harbour system of from Liguria East) do not realize that only returning the customs cycle more efficient and flexible, it is in import that in export, more cargo can be attracted and, proportionally, less empty containers on our docks. To they judgment - Fat person observes - would be enough the preclearing to satisfy the demands for all the world of the importers and they do not want any to feel to speak about "corridors", forgetting apparently also the logical ones that subtend to TRY which, in fact, are a system of corridors inside of which to make to flow the goods in the faster, intelligent and able way to satisfy the various ones and variegated demanded of possessory/the same purchasers of the goods".

"But - Fat person continues - these negative positions on the corridors "appear and seem" of total closing: in reality these courageous detractors of the corridors have neglected to say that, with note nr. 44053 on April 13, 2015, the Agency of Customs has activated experimentally the "Fast Corridor on the road". It comes therefore to think that the transport modality can influence the opinions and the conservation tillage positions of a sure type of customs operators: perhaps costoro they have added to their original profession other asset that is very more lucrative than that which declared seems to want to defend with maximum strength. Evidently they have become strong intermediaries of the road haulage".

"Then - the president of Assologistica still finds - it is comprised because it takes to the way the Fast street Corridor, but that railway one, than sure is very more coherent is to logical the Europeans of TRIES that to the topic of the guarantees of control during the transport (a train is bound to the railroads of the railway net… the truck goes controlled with UIRNET, otherwise…), it must before die still to be born for being only tested. The demonstration is obvious: after two weeks the Agency of Customs not "if still it is felt it" to emanate disciplining of the Fast Corridor on railroad: evidently to Rome the practised pressures also of opposite alignments from the logical detractors of these simple ones arrive the indirect effects of all in environments political, that it gives to the Countries of the Europe North (our the ill-famed but, alas, intelligent competitors) an advantage of operations and mentality that we will not never overwhelm".

"We wonder also - it emphasizes moreover Fat - as a transport modality can the Agency of Customs indulgere in facilitating rather than another: in fact, it is how much is happening… but then, we do not have all the same duties and the same rights? Fig leaf can the assertion -! - not to have still perfected an in itself banal procedure, to remove rights that are born for being equal for all"

"At the end, gentleman - the vice president of Assologistica concludes - are the goods who guide broken, corridors and logistic choices… and are the complementary goods that asks offered for service or alternatives: this is worth for all the segments of the logistics, therefore also in the world of the customs operations! The courage to change would have to be inbred to the nature of the enterprise: the entrepreneur who has only parossistico desire to defend its garden, shuts himself to the innovation that goes instead accompanied, supported and taken advantage of. Perhaps but these are not adaptable thoughts to some our "rigid and localist" Italian truths. Entrepreneurial myopia or love for the unearned income positions? Between some time we will know the answer… and we will complain ourselves, as usual, as always…"