Confitarma fears a possible weakening of the benefits guaranteed from the international Registry



The Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) fears a possible attenuation of the benefits for the national industry of the shipping guaranteed from the international Registry, instituted with bill n. 457 of 1997, and today in occasion of the assembly of the association held to Rome have remembered the government - for voice of confederal president Paolo d' Amico - than "the possible weakening of the architrave on which the entire field stands, that is the international Registry, would return the solution of the other problems of the field useless".

In the anniversary of the 110 years of the Confederation, that they coincide with the 150 years of the Unit of Italy, of Friend has restated the fundamental contribution of the fleet to the Italian economy and has emphasized as in this context the international Registry is yields of a far-sighted choice "and rewarding" that 13 years ago it is made in order to support the competitiveness of the national flag and in order to safeguard the occupation of the marine Italians.

"We have undersigned more this pact - he has said of Friend - and maintained faith in order than a decade to the promises of increase and development obtaining important results. In single 13 years we have renewed the fleet ordering new ships for a total value almost 35,5 billion euros". In little more than a decade the Italian fleet is passed by 8,5 to 18 million tons of tonnage recovering the eleventh position in the world-wide ranking, while - has specified of Friend - "on the occupational front 38 thousand occupied on board and to earth of 1998 today have become almost 60 thousand, to which joins beyond 110 thousand unit in the induced one".

of Friend it has evidenced that these results are yield of a shared project that - it has explained - "we would not want was put today in argument, also because the expectations on the recovery of resources deriving from the reduction of the measures of the international Registry are not real and the expectable results would be the immediate removal of the ships from the Italian flag, followed from the offshoring of the shipowning industry and on the occupation of the marine Italians".

Paolo d' Amico therefore has exhorted the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Altero Matteoli, that he has participated to the work, "to preserve the architecture that social entirety, institutions and parts, we have elaborated, in order to assure the development of navigation and with it the marine occupation".

In its speech of Friend it has moreover dedicated to particular attention to the problem of piracy remembering that Savina Caylyn and Rosalia D'Amato are still in the hands of the pirates the Italian ships and, in sharing the anxiety of captive the marine families of all the anchor, has asserted that "episodes as these would not have more to happen". The president of Confitarma therefore has thanked the government and the parliament in order to have comprised the urgency of measures that allow the active defense of the crews of the ships with the law n. 130 approved of in August. The auspice - it has said - is that shortly the disposition operating and is completed in order to allow also the boarding of private teams in alternative with the soldiers.

of Friend it has faced also the problem of the excessive bureaucracy that represents a determining factor of competitive weakness for the Italian marine industry, above all in markets that answer to logical that they go beyond those national ones: "we are captive - it has specified - of an aged legislative system, of anachronistic subjections to the document against which the engagement and the goodwill of the civil employees bash publics. And although features of participations to cost zero, from two legislatures giacciono in the rooms of Montecitorio and Palazzo Madama bills of simplification of the norm on the marine field".

The president of Confitarma has then remembered that by now from two contributive years the lacked one I renew of the relief to the cabotage penalizes the Italian operators regarding those Europeans, in a market by now liberalized, and that in order to continue the development of the freeways of the sea he is indispensable the refinancing of the ecobonus for which the engagement manifested in these years from the Giachino undersecretary is remarkable.

On the privatization of the Tirrenia group, for which the developments of the verifications in course in communitarian within attend today announced by the EU commission ( on 5 October 2011), of Friend it has wished that the decisions reach in reasonable times the aim to avoid negative repercussions on the reference markets. Regarding the privatization of some regional societies, the president of Confitarma has wished that tax comes to who offers services carried out in regime subsidized beside services carried out in free competition to operate such services with two various societies.

Stopping itself on the Italian harbour system of Friend it has said that "we must head with urgency to increase the efficiency and the quality of the services offered in our ports, asking at the same time for they a renewed system of rules, firstly the acceptation of the interassociativo Agreement of April 2007. The international crisis and the consequent sparsity of the resources available - it has added - imposes to rationalize to the maximum the financings publics in the ports, giving priority to those projects of infrastructuring that more answer to the strategic requirements of national the harbour system. This would allow to take part quickly and in incisive way on the constraints that mainly condition the marine traffics in the main national ports. I for example cite hoary the problematic one of the dredging, than in some truths it is assuming aspects of real operating emergency".

With respect to the job and to the formation of qualified crews of Friend it has emphasized that in spite of the crisis, reductions of the occupation have not been recorded, with the exception of the common qualifications. Politics of concertazione lead in these years from the Confitarma and the three confederal labor organizations - it has found - have been win and with regard to I renew of the national collective bargaining agreements, we confide that the negotiation can be concluded within the year: "the objective - it has explained - is to obtain, against retributive increases for the workers, the necessary increments of productivity in all the sections, comprised that of the harbor tug".

In matter of defense of the atmosphere the president of Confitarma, in remembering that the navigation enterprises are from years engaged in the attainment of the twofold objective to accompany the development of the economy and to assure an adequate protection of the sea online international and communitarian normative tightening with, has expressed surprised and worry for how much it is happening to Civitavecchia, where - it has denounced - "only on the base of the vision of smoke signals produced from the ships in arrival and departure from the port, prescinding from instrumental analyses that moreover already certifys the respect of the law limits, is contested a penal crime tothe commanders. If the ships were seen forced to scale other ports, it risks itself to compromise the development of the city and the territory".

In its participation to the assembly of the shipowners minister Matteoli has expressed the convincement own and of the government, let alone of the European Union, than "I throw again of the marine field is fundamental for I throw again of the economy is Italian who European". With respect to the privatization of Tirrenia, the minister has manifested the auspice that "the procedure can be concluded in the next few days with positive outcome".