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Sech INVESTS FOR LARGE SHIPS

The finished Sech enlarge its container cranes to accommodate up to 10,000 TEU capacity. The announcement was made yesterday by the President of the finished, Luigi Negri, during the Round Table "The development of maritime trade in the Mediterranean in relation to the world stage" event held in the framework of the conference three Port & Shipping Tech days.

The Sech has just signed the contract! To Italian engineering company Omg, that will extend the arms of the five quay cranes and expand engine for faster transactions: the first crane to be ready in 7-8 months and subsequent will be delivered every three months. Linvestimento total is 14 million and allow the Sech, thanks to the wire platform draft of 14.5 meters available to the finished, to accommodate vessels from 8000 to 10,000 TEU, and Genoa, have not as yet arrived with services regular. "We already had - Negri said on the sidelines of the meeting - requested to come to Genoa from 8,500 teu ships, but we had to opt for those from 6500. Therefore, despite the crisis, we decided to make this effort in order to be ready in a year, to accommodate vessels over 8,000 TEU capacity. The cranes will be certified by Bureau Veritas and will not, according to Negri, wind problems, rather than due to the piles of empty containers.

The proclamation of the strengthening of the crane Sech is a concrete response to the issues discussed at the roundtable. In particular, the speakers tried to imagine what opportunities and what the vision of Italy when shipping traffic will resume growing. Antonio and Bruno Musso have raised the idea of equipping the port of Genoa to accommodate a flow of 10 million TEUs. Negri himself has shown, however, skeptical of this view, calling to try to keep the current catchment area, which can go up to Switzerland, without thinking of being able to compete with the major ports of Northern Europe markets 'Central Europe.

According to the president of Assologistica, Nereo Marcucci, Italy needs a shift in policy in favor of the rail freight sector, which today seems frozen "policy against AD Moretti Trenitalia - Marcucci said - is acceptable when concentrates traffic and reduces costs. We understand that the cargo sector had become a dead branch and therefore is cut, by deleting lines and dramatically increasing rates. What we do not accept is that Trenitalia, while withdrawal from this area preclude individuals succeed with their services. " Marcucci points the finger in particular with the directive issued this summer by President Silvio Berlusconi, which reduces to 71 nodes intermodal managed by RFI, leaving others available to Fs Logistic hoping they serve to real estate transactions. The fear is that they are used to make cash while Assologistica would like them to be entrusted to private individuals: "We need the railway policy of the Government, despite its positive aspects, is accompanied by pluralism." Even Luca Sisto, moderator of the roundtable and Confitarma executive, urged the government to greater efforts to strengthen the role of Italy in the Mediterranean.

Claudio Ferrari, Roberto and Alberto Zanovello Cozzo warned that Italy could eventually sit on the sidelines of the main strategic international logistics, especially after the enlargement of the Panama Canal. The lawyer then took Cozza ['example of Ford's logistics platform in Turkey. Here we assemble cars for the Mediterranean market. The platform and supplied through a railway line linking Turkey to Cologne, Germany, and with the ports of northern Europe.

Alberto Ghiara