Danube Logistics: Newsletter for January - June 2016

Danube Logistics: Newsletter for January - June 2016

• 29.07.2016

Customs Service supports investors by simplying procedures

“The initited reforms aim to create a competiie environment for investors in various sectors of the economy so that they can benefi from the most innovatie tools of customs administratin" stated General Director of the Customs Service, Vitalie Vrabie during the meetig with Thomas Moser, CEO of ICS Danube Logistis SRL, the company which operates Giurgiulest Internatinal Free Port (GIFP). During the meetig were discussed several issues that need to be optiized in order to ensure smooth functining of the port and create favorable conditins for the residents of GIFP. The partis established an agenda of actins to be undertaken in the near future by a working group that was formed for that purpose.

These measures provide for the identiiatin of solutins to simplify customs procedures, as well as adjustment of the existig legal framework so that new provisions regulate including the actiity of GIFP. In this regard, Rosario de Blasio, Senior EU Adviser in Customs area, has stated that within these procedures there will be considered best community practies, so that the results correspond to the requirements of internatinal standards. 

At his turn, the Danube Logistis, Thomas Moser welcomed the constructie dialogue and the solutins proposed by the Customs Service which will not only simplify internatinal trade of Moldovan companies but also facilitate additinal investments of Moldovan and internatinal companies within GIFP. ICS Danube Logistis SRL, benefiially owned by the European Bank for Reconstructin and Development and by the Dutch company Danube Logistis Holding BV, is the general investor and operator of Giurgiulest Internatinal Free Port as well as a multimodal logisti service supplier.

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Danube Logistics, Giurgiulesti International Free Port

Giurgiulesti International Free Ports (GIFP) entire 120 ha territory has a status of a free economic zone and consists of an oil product terminal, a grain terminal as well as a general cargo and container terminal including a RoRo ramp (start of operation by September 2011). Due to its location on the Lower Danube with available water depths of up to 7 meters, GIFP is capable of receiving both inland and sea-going vessels. Against this background the GIFP serves its clients as: - the only direct sea/river-borne transshipment and distribution point to and from the Republic of Moldova, - a regional logistics hub on the border of the EU with access to road, European and Russian railway, river, sea, and - an excellent business location, because of its strategic location, tri-modal transport infrastructure, low cost environment and a unique customs and tax regime.