Worry of Federmar-Cisal for the impact of the investigation EU on the future of Tirrenia



Federmar-Cisal, to light of the possible effects of the investigation started in these days from the EU commission on the subsidies which postponed on the companies of the Tirrenia group after the cessation of the which expired twenty-year convention in the 2008 let alone on the aspects of held transparency and not discrimination in the privatization of Tirrenia and the Siremar ( on 5 October 2011), it has manifested worry for the future of the shipowning society.

"The entire event, afterlife of the reassuring declarations of the extraordinary commissioner of Tirrenia, Of Andrea - the national secretary of the labor organization has explained, Alessandro Pico - could have catastrophic implications, considering that the European Union in the section of the insulare cabotage previews stipulates it of contracts of public service with relative emolument of the costs, appropriate put contracts but to contest with notices broken for route and therefore not entrusted preventively to a single company as in the case of Tirrenia. Moreover, always for the European Union, the winner of every single contest does not have some obligation to acquire neither the ships of the company that had operated on that route neither tantomeno its crews".

Pico has restated the accusation in confronts of the interested Italian private armament, more than to the acquisition of Tirrenia - he has explained - "to its disappearance for having free field in the field of the connections with the islands, in particular with the Sardinia. The interests at stake are enormous - it has added the representative of Federmar-Cisal - and the demonstration have had also during the slid summer, in which for the first year, without the calmieratore brake of a Tirrenia ended in the state of weakened insolvency and therefore, the rates of passage of the ferries have splashed towards the high, having provoked the legitimate reactions of the Sardinia Region worried of the impact negative that such action involved on tourism and the economy insulare".

"From this picture - it has found Pico - it turns out obvious that the issue must be dipanata on the political plan with a energetic action by the government, engaged yes to lead to term the privatization of the public fleet, but also to safeguard the patrimony represented from Tirrenia, its ships and its places of work that, are worth it to remember, pile to beyond two thousand units".

"In such context - it has concluded Pico - the Federmar-Cisal judges important extremely to reach the definition with the CIN, the company as soon as possible that the preliminary matter of purchase of Tirrenia has signed, of an agreement for the conditions (relationship of job and contractual) of transfer of the staff and for the maintenance of the places of work: up to now, with all the respect for the datoriali counterparts - it has observed - the argument is stretched out in along and in wide without entering in the alive one of the substance and the problems and therefore there is a need for a fast acceleration for its conclusion. It is conviction of this labor organization that a similar agreement, clearly of social character, could help through more than some obstacle in the action undertaken from the Commission of the European Union on Tirrenia".