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Social responsibility FCC Logística collaborates with the tax authorities on the

World Anti-Counterfeiting Day

On 8 June the World Anti-Counterfeiting Day was held and, for this purpose, the Tax Authorities held an event in the installations belonging to FCC Logística at the Port of Valencia to demonstrate the work that it ca-rries out at these premises against this type of crime.

The logistics operator offers a service that requires making a previous appointment, enabling FCC Lógistica to plan its resour-ces as best as possible and allows both parties to minimize waiting time.

This technological application also makes it possible to check containers on a real time basis, including those that have been received, are at the dock, and checked, as well as electronic correspondence with the inspector assigned to inspect the merchan-dise, and automatic SMSs to the transport agents indicating the freight platform of the

FCC Logística has collaborated in Customs tasks with the Administration for two decades at the Port of Valencia. One of the major Mediterranean ports and the port of entry for millions of tons of goods from everywhere in the world especially from the Far East.

In 2007, FCC Logística inaugurated modern facilities in the Valencia Port of over 22,000 square meters in 2007 in which tasks of storage and handling all kinds of go-ods are carried out, especially under the regime of Free Port, Duty Free warehousing and non-customs warehousing as well as container consolidation and deconsolida-tion, and specially, thanks to

being a tax inspection point, activities relating to the control and recognition reques-ted by the Customs authorities.

Containers from all parts of the world are received at FCC Logística facilities and ins-pected under the supervision of the authorities. In the event that counterfeit material is found, it is seized, classifed and stored until court authorities decide on its destruc-tion, if that should be the case.

For more than 20 years

vehicle to be inspected. The application also sends emails to users (custom agents, transit agents, importers and exporters) to

inform them of the location and results of the inspection.

The implementation of this management system allows the FCC Logística Customs Business Unit to bolster its activities with the public administrations and users of the services rendered by the company in Valen-cia Harbor for the last twenty years.