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This short report shows the state of advancement of the “Legge Obiettivo” (Target Law), a law conceived to speed up bureaucratic and administrative procedures, kick starting the construction sites of major infrastructures in Italy. The report explains that there’s a low level of completion of the plan, due in all likeliness to the major procedural complexities at play in our country. The second consideration relates to the modest functioning of the “Legge Obiettivo” on the administrative front. Lastly – a necessary observation – the tendency is to continue focusing in particular on road and rail works. While these are important, the question to ask, at this point, is whether Italy intends to afford ports and interport logistics platforms strategic dignity or not.

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We have carried out an interesting interview with Jonathan C. Williams, General Manager of FONASBA to explore the role of Ship Brokers and Agents in the international context.

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This paper is an extract from the project work carried out within the VI edition of the Master’s degree in shipping, logistics, finance and business strategy of I.P.E., which was presented in Naples on 2nd July 2014.The objective of this work is to examine the major infrastructures which will be built into the ports in the future, and to analyse the financial resources necessary for their implementation and the added value these infrastructures are required to meet for ports to trade effectively. The project also implied the analysis of the Port Authorities’ their three-year operational plans (TYOP) and the plans of any public works.

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This study is extracted from the 1st Annual Report “Italian Maritime Economy. New routes for growth – June 2014″. The report identifies the structural features, the entrepreneurial characteristics, the economic performances and financial assets of the shipping industry companies. Moreover, it makes some observations on future developments, bearing in mind the effects and reactions that the crisis has brought about in the Italian business system.

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We have interviewed the Vice President of Contship Italia, a company whose core businesses are the operations and investments in port terminals and all the container-related services, especially intermodal transport, maintenance and storage which bring added value to the company’s core business. With Marco Simonetti we have discussed the competitiveness and the economic scenarios, besides the more obvious talk about the company’s strategies.

We have interviewed again the General Manager of the Tanger Med port – Najlaa Diouri – to illustrate all the characteristics of the activities carried out, the strategies pursued by the Port Authority, and the goals laid out, with an overview of the projects under way and those in the pipeline, and of the implications they will have on the economy of the port and of the territory it is located in.

SRM has interviewed Emanuel Grimaldi, “at the helm” of one of Italy’s outstanding ship-owning groups.
The Grimaldi Group is a full-fledged multinational company active in the logistics sector, specialised in roll-on/roll-off vessels, car carriers, cruises, and ferries. It supplies integrated logistics services, based on maritime transport, to the most important vehicle manufacturers. Every year, the ships of the Grimaldi fleet call at over 120 ports in 50 countries of the Mediterranean, North Europe, West Africa, and North and South America.