Nerli (Assoporti): in Italy the presence of ports also little ones represents "a value for the system Country"



In the course of the public assembly of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), held today to Rome, the organization of the Italian Harbour Authorities has restated the necessity newly of throws again of the national portualità through measures to "cost zero" - which sburocratizzazione, simplification, greater clarity also on the powers of the president of Port Authority - and proportionally onerous measures that regard participations on the entire marine cluster and that they comprise the partial control of the social burdens of the harbour enterprises, confirmation of the ndemnity of lacked starter to the job for harbour and the concession the autonomy financial institution.

The president of Assoporti, Francesco Nerli, has emphasized the urgency to set to the topic of the competitiveness of the field being put into effect a series of participations to begin just from the autonomy financial institution of the Harbour Authorities, measure in which Italy it is back marker in the European panorama. But not smaller importance has the definition of a total strategy of field in a position to defining the priorities and on these to concentrate efforts and resources.

Referring to state of health of a portualità Italian second in Europe for tonnage only to that Dutch and characterized from a presence of ports also little ones who "represent a value for the system Country", Nerli has defended national the harbour system in its integrity, having supported the necessity also of small Harbour Authorities in a position to managing ports of call that however have important strategic roles of row.

Moreover, in topic of partnership between private publics and in the financing of harbour works, Nerli has warned regarding the risk of speculations, yields of the lacked guarantee of the public funds and therefore the unavoidable weakening of the Harbour Authorities.

The president of Assoporti therefore has emphasized the inborn difficulties with the absence of a norm of reference to European level and with a competition on the costs of labor that call the enterprises to push on the lever of the quality of the service. Nerli has manifested also worry regarding an opening of the harbour market on which the EU commission has already archived item two failures: according to the president of the Italian association, in this within he is indispensable to guarantee an adequate contendibilità of the concession and times of concession that return the cover of the investment costs possible.

Nerli has at last rejected the hypothesis of agreements on the job in exception to the national contract of job, considered "point of force" of the Italian harbour system.