The first and only European international customs corridor was born in Italy. It will connect the port of Trieste with the Fürnitz freight village in Carinthia. From next January i Containers arriving will be loaded directly from the ship to the cargo train and take the road of Northern and Central Europe without customs controls, which will be done upon arrival in Austria. An advantage for the goods, which will travel faster and with a reduction in administrative procedures. It will also increase thesea-rail intermodality.
“For us,” he says Zeno D'Agostino, president of the ports of Trieste and Monfalcone, “is an important step. With the first European international customs corridor between two States, both import and export procedures are speeded up towards an important junction, from a railway point of view, for Trieste but also for Austria, and for all of Central and Eastern Europe”. “This will allow – explains D'Agostino – a significant reduction in administrative and bureaucratic steps, decreasing both the timing of container handling and related costs to the passage of goods, entering and leaving our port of call, towards world markets or from world markets to these areas. With the effect of improving our international competitiveness”. The security checks and the mandatory ones, for example the health checks, will remain in the hands of the port of Trieste.
The first European inter-customs corridor: the signature tomorrow in Vienna
Tomorrow a Vienna, at the Winter Palace of Prince Eugene, there will be the signing of agreements with various partners including, in addition to Andreas Mattha CEO of ÖBB (the Austrian railways) e Zeno D'Agostino, the representatives ofItalian and Austrian Customs Agency, governor of Carinthia Peter Kaiser, the Italian ambassador in Austria Stefano Beltrame and the Austrian finance minister Magnus Brunner.
The establishment of the aisle is a great example of international cooperation between two EU states and facilitates the'increase in trains che already today, several times a week, connect the Julian airport with the Logistik Center (LCA) of Fürnitz where the customs clearance operations will be carried out, through shuttle services. With the creation of new jobs in the area and the offer of value-added services such as the repair of wagons and containers, says a note from Trieste.
“With the customs corridor between Trieste and Fürnitz the quay ideally extends from the Adriatic to Carinthia" He says Stephen Visintin president of the Association of Forwarders of the Port of Trieste. “We trust that the changes to the Italian VAT law advocated by us are implemented by the Government, allowing goods destined for other European countries to be imported to Italian customs without a burden for EU importers, allowing our country, among other things, to collect part of the duties on these goods”.
