Gallanti (AP Livorno): the tariff system of the towing service is too much onerous



The president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, agrees with the colleague of the port of Venice, Paolo Costa: the rates of the towing services are too much onerous. It has supported today in occasion of the seminary dedicated to the topic of the liberalization of the technical-nautical services, organized own from the number one of the Venetian authority Coast, that it is in development near Passenger terminal 103 of the port of Venice.

Gallanti has found that the carried out technical-nautical service in monopoly regime is little justifiable to light of the current legislation on the competition and that the costs of stand-by of the towing service are too much onerous for the user.

"The current monopolistic model - the president of the livornese agency has explained - does not appear more answering to the criteria of competitiveness by now indifferently demanded from a modern harbour system". "Caro Dimitrios Theologitis - it has been the appeal of Gallanti to responsible the ports of the DG Move, also it anticipates to the debate - speaks itself also about this in the workshop that you will organize in summer. We hope all that to European level by now are changed those conditions that did not allow Loyola de Palacio to liberalize the market of the harbour services".

Theologitis, taken part shortly before Gallanti, in fact had announced of wanting to organize for the summer a centralized European workshop on the main topics of harbour politics: "the objective - it had declared responsible the ports of the direction Transports of the EU commission - is to focus debates on two guiding important: safety of navigation and the free access at the market. We will listen to anyone wants to give a contribution to the debate".

Gallanti then is taken part on the system tariff of reference, finding that its positions are not at all far from those of Paolo Costa who for a long time beats itself for the abolition of the cost-plus pricing (that is, the model of the historical expense, with the increases established second the data introduced unilaterally from the concessionaire of the towing service): "today - it has observed the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno - the user is forced to support the costs of an eventual bad one entrepreneurial ability to the towing enterprise, which, in the current system, ends paradoxicalally for being in fact exempted from great part of the risk of enterprise with fallen back negative for the harbour user".

Under this aspect, the model of the price CAP, than fixed a maximum tariff anniversary on the base of the increase of reduced inflation rate of an established minimal percentage of productivity, is for Gallanti the best answer who it asks greater competitiveness inside a port, because - it has explained - this indurrebbe the concessionaire to increase the efficiency of own operating management. "It is opportune - it has emphasized Gallanti - than every gain/loss in terms of minors/put up production costs is confiscated by the enterprise without to weigh on the tariff increase".