The governance of the ports and the impact of the crisis on the shipping to the center of the shareholders' meeting of Federagenti



"For the first time we are almost all in agreement on the strategies and the vision". Probably this impression, picked by Filippo Gallo to conclusion of the work of 62ª the shareholders' meeting of held Federagenti this morning to Stintino (Sassari), is a little optimistic. Certainly it is a circumstance phrase. Perhaps but this positive feeling appears time to counterbalance the worry for an economic scene that seems not to succeed to shake out of back the burden loaded from a crisis that the companies give 2009 alarm all, included those of the section of shipping as the marine agencies and the society of marine mediation that are under responsibility of the national federation Federagenti.

"The today's situation - the president of the federation has confirmed, Filippo Gallo in opening of the work - provokes worries newly much series". Its relation to the assembly ahead illustrates the completed steps from the marine field regarding the apex of the total economic crisis, but it for example evidences also the still existing criticalities that they induce to maintain the guard high, as the indefensible return by instalments of hire in the field of the containerized transport.

Rooster has asked the institutions concreteness in the resolution for the problems and participations for efficientamento for the system which, for example, the definition "of a new fan of competences for the Marine Authority". The shipping agents - she has explained - have the requirement to be confronted with little interlocutors, best still with an only equatable subject to the Unico Doganale Door previewed from the National Plan of the Logistics.

That the shipping it is not still outside from sand banks it they testify crisis situations as that primed from the increase of the rates of the ferries that connect the Sardinia with the continent. From a part the shipowners explain that the increase of the prices has resulted from the greater determined burdens mainly from the rise of the cost of the bunker. From the other the regional agency Sardinian accusation the shipowning companies to have constituted a trust damaging so the economy of the island and uses the Saremar, company that is passed under the control of the Region, in order to offer to the Sardinians and to the holiday marine services low-cost.

The problem of the increase of the rates of the ferries is faced today in the course of the assembly by Giancarlo Acciaro, president of the Association of the Shipping agents of the Sardinia, that it has expressed gratefulness and support to the Sardinia Region for the initiative in existence mails with the new business policy and operating of the Saremar and has exhorted the regional agency to widen it also to the segment of the goods. "The formation of a Sardinian fleet - Acciaro has said - is in fact a very effective instrument in order to fix a ceiling price the transport costs. I hope that this engagement can continue and find a solution also for the traffic goods burdened from rates still too much esose and task to a table between private public and where to be able to propose operating solutions".

From part its Valeria Novella, Shipping Young president of the Group of Confitarma, has favorite not to take part in the merit, while also for Paolo Piro, president of the Harbour Authority North Sardinia, the rise of the costs of the fuel does not justify the increment of the rates of the ferries.

An participation of tenor almost pre-electoral that of the undersecretary to Infrastructures and Transports, Bartolomeo Giachino, that the action of the government with the objective of the infrastructural development of the nation has claimed. The undersecretary has launch an alarm for the possible change of the scene: evidencing the demand to the revocation EU of the European financings for Corridor 5 by the new mayor for Naples, Luigi De Magistris, Giachino he has warned for the possible return to a new block of the works as that determining from the so-called "amendment Libertine" to the law 492 of the 1975 that stopped for 25 years the construction of new freeways in Italy.

Accusations to the government instead have reached from the president of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), Francesco Nerli, also for the support "without if and without but" offered up to now to the haulers, section - it has declared - that constitutes "a loop to the neck of the logistics". "We spend figures high every year - Nerli has wondered - without to ask they: but reorganized at least a wee bit".

Nerli has moreover exhorted the government to finally close the chapter of the review of the harbour law of reform 84/94 that is extended by now from nine years and that - has remembered - it has led in a text bipartisan that says that it must assign to the autonomy financial institution to the Harbour Authorities. The president of Assoporti has stopped also on the model of governance of the ports having wished a simplification of the Harbour Committees reassigning to their inside a role of majority to the public regarding the private one, so overturning the relationship between the two parts introduced from decrees of Publio Flowers of the first government Berlusconi.

The president of Assoporti therefore has criticized the recent decision of the executive to afford the reduction of the amount of Italian the anchor duties in order to allow with the hub of transhipment facing the competition of the North African ports, reduction that - it had evidenced also Filippo Gallo previously - "in reality does not have some effectiveness on the ports of call of transhipment". Nerli has compared happened how much in the ports of Tanger Med and Gioia Tauro: last year - the president of Assoporti has explained - Tangeri has enlivened 20 million containerized tons of goods riscuotendo 60,6 million euros, while Gioia Tauro has totaled a traffic of 30 million tons embedding 12,5 million euros. "Ergo - it has found Nerli - ours transhipment it is not in difficulty for the canons and the taxes". The result - it has added - is that "you have not made to pay the taxes and you have rimpinguato the cases of those companies that are gone some however".

According to the general manager of the head office for the Ports of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, Cosimo Caliendo, the norm for discouragement of the harbour taxes has the objective to lend a hand to the ports of transhipment, but - it has observed - alone enough and its effect is not limited by the competition carries North Africans.

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