Callback to the unit of Assoporti in order to tackle to the crisis and the decrease of the traffics



Today the directive council of the Association has met Italian Ports (Assoporti) that it has examined is the difficulties crossed from the national portualità is the evidenced internal dispute from the letter sent in recent days from the president of the Harbour Authority of Ancona, Luciano Canepa, on behalf also of the harbour agencies of Augusta, Cagliari, Civitavecchia, Naples, Olbia, Taranto and Trieste in which the eight authorities have communicated the intention to recede from the association.

The encounter has been opened with the illustration by the president of the association, Francesco Nerli, of the document of the priorities of the marine-harbour field, correspondent to the minister unitarally from Assoporti, Assologistica, Assiterminal, Confitarma, Federagenti and Fise-Uniport, that it constitutes a first step of argument with the new government on the necessities of the Italian portualità and in which demands the participation of the executive for the potenziamento of harbour infrastructures, for the resumption of the competitiveness of the system and for the social stabilization.

A reflection is therefore continuation on the current situation of crisis that - it has found the association - seems to portend an ulterior decrease of the traffics the next year and this in a scene in which the future of the portualità a reorganization of the routes is contingent on due to the new alliances between the shipowning companies. In this picture - it has emphasized Assoporti - they are necessary, in order to guarantee the estate of the ports, rules common in order to avoid conflicts that they could question the system of governance. Moreover the directive one of the association has evidenced the importance of confronts with the stiff government to obtain provisions for the portualità, beginning from the acknowledgment of the autonomy financial institution.

The examination of the situation then is extended to the topics of interest in argument in European Union, in particular to the regarding innovations the harbour concessions, services and the harbour job, let alone to the transeuropee nets and under consideration of the European Parliament on the aids of State.

Internal Sul forehead, shaken from the threat of the eight Harbour Authorities to recede from the association, the directive council, in consideration of the reflection made on the crisis of the field, has manifested the necessity to maintain a strong unit and to promote a greater role of representation for the association. The division of the efforts - it is found - is destined to weaken the entire Italian harbour system. The members of the directive one therefore have concluded, giving sent to president Nerli to meet the presidents of the Harbour Authorities listed in the letter in order to open a reflection, that it involves all the associates. "The objective - Nerli has explained - is that to lead back the argument to an unit of attempts, for the good of the system in its complex".