Piracy, infrastructures, finance and logistics between the topics of "Shipping and the Law 2011"



Piracy, infrastructures, finance and logistics have been some of the topics dealt yesterday in the course of the convention "Shipping and the Law 2011", organized encounter from numerous the Lauro Law firm that has recalled to Naples exponents of relief of the shipping international and that it has become a fixed appointment of the marine industry.

Of piracy, that it still provokes always greater worry for the crews and the ships under seizure, between which unit of two Neapolitan shipowning societies (Siblings D'Amato and Perseveranza), has spoken Francesco Saverio Lauro, managing partner of the Lauro Law firm. "From the military nuclei that will protect our ships - Lauro has asserted - we expect a deterrent in order to avoid ulterior episodes of piracy. The procedure but, is not still complete: the agreements with the Been about to ones to allow the boarding and the disembarkation of the which fitted out teams of military lack and urge to define appropriate rules of engage. It must speed up - it has observed - if we want to avoid other seizures of ships and Italian crews. The convention with Marina is important as the soldiers have also function of judiciary police and this assures the maximum legality in the use of the weapons and is effective in assuring the pirates to the justice".

Lauro, already president of the Harbour Authority of Naples, has spoken also about the role and the potenziamento of infrastructures: "they serve - it has found - seen new models in an European optical of Network, in order to modernize the Italian ports. The governmental capitals do not go invested to case or second a form of "incongruous federalism", but according to objective necessities and potentiality of the traffics so to attract also the participation of the private ones as it has evidenced, in its relation, professor Paolo Costa, president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, already mayor of the lagoon city and minister of the Public works Pubblici".

On the necessity of more tightened relationship between shipowning system and bank world, in a particularly difficult moment as the current one, they have stopped the general manager of the Giuseppe Castagna, Bank of Naples, and Nicola Coccia, president of the section finance of Confitarma. The Shipping president of the Italian Confederation, Paolo d' Amico, has supplied the data of national the shipowning industry: "the marine cluster - one of Confitarma has explained the number - today occupies about half in Italy million people and represents 2.5% of the Gross Domestic Product one. It is an excellence that goes valued and supported because, also in a period of crisis, it creates occupation ago and formation. Undoubtedly it must give answers to some criticalities because it must hold account of the social aspect priority".

Al convention has participated to the undersecretary to Infrastructures and Transports, Bartolomeo Giachino, and the general secretary of the ESPO (European Sea Ports Organisation), Patrick Verhoeven. In its Giachino participation it has always put the accent on the importance of the logistics whose lacked adaptation 40 billion euros cost to the State. "The portualità - the undersecretary to the Transports has said - is, for our Country, a motor important of development. For this we expect from the logistic system, that is the portualità and interposing to you, fallen back economic additional at least means point of GDP in more regarding the last years". A objective that, according to Giachino, "can be reached inside improving the operation of the customs inspections of the ports and connecting the national ports of call better with the European nets of transport".

In the course of the encounter yesterday it has been discussed also about offshore, energy and of the crocieristico field, the only one that - in period of crisis - has not given signs of yielding.