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May 13, 2022
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- With an unprecedented agreement the Port System Authority
of the Western Ligurian Sea opens the doors to DP World
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- With the Dubai group, the Genoese body will collaborate
the development of the transport, logistics and industrial supply chain
of its port system
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 The Port System Authority of the Ligurian Sea
Occidentale, the body that manages the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado
Ligure, has signed a unique memorandum of understanding with DP
World, the Dubai group that operates a network of port terminals,
of logistic activities and maritime services scattered in many
regions of the globe. Unusual, the agreement, because the group
Middle Eastern, which is not present in Italy, for the institution
Italian port could become a potential counterpart in
any negotiations in the case of the Emirati company, which is
indirectly controlled by the Government of Dubai, decided to
expand its network to Italy, or maybe to the ports
managed by the AdSP. Singular because the agreement provides - has
announced the port authority - "the collaboration for the
development of the transport, logistics and industrial supply chain of the
port system'.-
- With the agreement, the Port System Authority opens the
leads to an unprecedented collaboration with a logistics operator, given
that - clarified the Ligurian body - the MoU "provides for the
carrying out activities to support the development of the network
ports and back-port terminals, logistics areas and
industrial, service centres and solutions for road transport,
warehouse management, sharing best practices and
the possible establishment of a multimodal international corridor
logistic, also through the comparative analysis of Port Community
System'. A collaboration, normally granted by
a port authority to research bodies or institutes, or
consultancy or to companies selected through a tender to work
to a specific project, which seems to give to the Dubai group
possibility and exclusivity that evidently others
Ligurian, domestic and foreign operators would be very pleased to be able to
get at no cost.
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- "DP World - said the president of the port authority,
Paolo Emilio Signorini, explaining the reasons for the agreement - it is
specialized in integration with inland terminals. Third
Worldwide operator is one of the largest service providers of
global supply chain and logistics, with a presence in 69
countries and is an important facilitator of trade flow
international. As europe's sixth gateway port, we have great
interest in improving connectivity between our airports
ports and inland terminals. Have a great partner
international experience as DP World - said Signorini -
represents an important opportunity to complete the
logistics chain and give further development to our trades».
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- There is also no shortage of comments on the agreement of the President of the
Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, and the mayor, Marco Bucci, without the
what could be said - and whether to say so at the beginning of his mandate
it could have seemed a slander, it is not today after the
countless proofs that this corresponds to the truth - that
Signorini cannot or does not want to move a step, making himself
pickaxe of the historic autonomy of Palazzo San Giorgio respect
to the other local centers of power.
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- "This memorandum - commented the president of the
Region - is one of the most important fruits of the
institutional mission in Dubai when with President Signorini
we visited the top management of DP World, the main terminal operator
of the Emirates area with 22 million containers handled
every year and an extraordinary logistics chain. In that context -
explained Giovanni Toti - the opportunities had been deepened
of future collaborations, which today are concretized in a document
strategic for the growth and development of this airport".
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- Toti seems to implicitly say that the ports of Genoa and
Savona are not able to attract these skills but must
go looking for them, and not too close. This, on the other hand, is
the fate of almost all Italian missions,
commercial and marketing, abroad, which in this is
differentiate markedly from similar initiatives of much more
Countries used to deal with the world. Instead of soliciting
the interest of potential investors by illustrating the possibilities
proposed, we are forced to attract them by clutching with them
agreements with which we are in the meantime to offer something to them. In the
specific case information, data and contacts that, as we said,
they would be tempting to other operators perhaps competitors of DP World.
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- But the regional councillor for Economic Development and
Portualità, Andrea Benveduti, is not of this opinion,
given that according to him "this document represents a first
active step of the many close contacts during our visit to
Dubai and a concrete sign of a general community interest
international shipping and logistics towards the
Ligurian territory and its present potential and
future'.
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- If to have this "concrete signal of a general
interest» the Ligurian AdSP had to sign a memorandum
of understanding with which it offers something, and not insignificant,
the mayor of Genoa, more prosaically, hopes - or at least
so it seems from his statement - that this leads
something: "Genoa - said Marco Bucci - is the port
from which goods transit to Europe through the corridor
Rhine-Alps the most important in Western Europe. And Genoa
is a city always looking for investments because
with the port has as its objective to continue to be the gateway from the south
to the markets of Europe'.
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- The commitment signed by the AdSP with DP World is welcomed
even enthusiastically by the president of the Airport of
Genoa, Paolo Odone, who gave "congratulations to the Authority
of Sistema Portuale, which with this signature establishes a relationship of
strategic collaboration with one of the main protagonists
global maritime transport, a harbinger of positive spill-over effects for
the city and for all economic operators in the sector".
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- Welcomed in Genoa by the President of the Region and Councillor for the
followed by the mayor, the president of the port authority and
by the president of the airport, the representative of DP World, Simon
Pitout, trade and transformation director for group supply chain &
logistics of the Dubai company, has magnanimously granted that the
emiratense group can do something for Genoa and Liguria and
maybe even beyond: "there is - he noted - a huge
potential to be developed and integrated into logistics infrastructures
and commercial of Genoa so as to favor enormous advantages
Cheap. Through this memorandum of understanding -
explained Pitout - we aim to share our expertise in
creating smarter, more efficient solutions,
sustainable and innovative in end-to-end logistics to explore
ways we could potentially support Genoa to maximize
its strategic position and increase trade flows to
national level and in the surrounding area'.
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- If it is all to see the contribution that - as duly
specified - DP World "potentially" will be able to
offer to the Ligurian capital and its economy, we do not nourish
no doubt that Pitout is happy to be able to take home a
agreement to obtain which he did not even have to struggle and that
will guarantee his company - as it seems - information and
opportunities, without tangible counterparts, to others not
Granted.
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- Bruno Bellio
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- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
phone: +39.010.2462122, fax: +39.010.2516768, e-mail
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