Replacing email system with faster-advanced communication between agents and maritime brokers”

According to Federagenti, this is the route for the future traced at the last meeting of the world category federation

Communication, coordination, and vision, are all under the beacon of sustainability. These are the inputs that Federagenti (the National Federation of Shipping Agents) took charge of returning from the General Meeting of Fonasba, the world category Federation of shipping agents and brokers just held in Antwerp.

As already revealed by SHIPPING ITALY, on the same occasion, Fulvio Carlini, an Italian broker operating mainly from Monte Carlo, also received the role of president of Fonasba itself starting from 2024.

“Perhaps for the first time with conviction and determination, in addressing the problems of professions destined to be protagonists in the next years of a further evolutionary process, maritime agents and maritime brokers, who coexist within Federagenti and Fonasba itself, have focused attention on the opportunities that could arise from a collaboration between these two professional categories able to bring constantly updated know-how on ports, on the characteristics of ships and goods transported, but also on the evolution of rental contracts “explains one note from the Italian federation of agents.

He also adds: “It is not by chance that the debate within the Antwerp meeting dealt with highly innovative issues such as digital Platforms destined to supplant – according to Fonasba’s indications – the now saturated email system, replacing it with faster, more efficient and collaborative of advanced communication “

Alessandro Santi, president of Federagenti, underlined how the attention of the category, as evidenced by the general meeting in Fonasba, is “also focusing on effective coordination between neighboring ports.

In Belgium, a new mega port was born as a result of the de facto merger between Antwerp and Zeebrugge, ports that even historically were very hot competitors and rivals until yesterday and which now present themselves on the market as a single port, capable of providing truly competitive answers. : and these two ports are separated by a distance similar to that which separates Genoa from Savona or Naples from Salerno,

Italian ports in search of real integration within the port system authorities. Antwerp and Zeebrugge have engaged in joint projects such as wind turbines, they provide the two ports with 50% of the energy needed for cranes, forklifts, and even tugs “. In addition to this, on the CO2 capture front, a collaboration between Belgian ports and the Dutch port of Rotterdam is gaining ground.

“In short, a strategic vision of competition/cooperation that has as its main driver that of sustainability (economic, social and environmental) as well as energy self-sufficiency” concludes Santi.

Source:  shipping Italy