Warriors (AP Piombino) Spediporto accusation to practice "lobbysmo without culture" when it asks the reduction for the number of the Italian Harbour Authorities



The president of the Harbour Authority of Piombino, Luciano Guerrieri, accusation Spediporto, the association of the genoese shippers, to practice a kind of ""lobbysmo without culture", that he tries to impose "the law of more hard"" when asks the reduction for the number of the Italian Harbour Authorities.

The president of the Tuscan harbour agency refers to some declarations of president of Spediporto, Roberta Oliaro, released in the margin of the shareholders' meeting of the association that has held Wednesday slid to Genoa ( on March 28, 2012, "Forum of the Shipping and the Logistics"). In particular, the number one of Spediporto has been stopped on the cost of the Harbour Authorities emphasizing the necessity to eliminate of some being concentrated the resources on those of the ports that enliven important traffics.

"Ago truly sadness - retort Warriors - than the president of one of the territorial associations of the "shipment more prestigious houses" of our Country, the Spediporto of Genoa, individuals between the main topics for own assembly the number to its excessive opinion of the Italian Harbour Authorities proposing of therefore the reduction, when even the carried arguments in support of the aforesaid thesis, supply us elements in order to refute it. In the first instance - it explains Warriors - memory that the Harbour Authority is a model of government of a port that ago reference also to previewed dimensional aspects however from the law, but that under others aspects of it prescinds, so much so that in Europe there are ports center of Harbour Authority of enormous dimensions, but also more little ones of our smaller port with Harbour Authority. In this picture the Harbour Authorities act as subject dynamic and play an important role to the aim to promote development projects or actively participating with other institutional and economic to important programs of national and international interest, coherent actors with the regional and local objectives".

"It afflicts to us - the president of the Harbour Authority of Piombino continues - to see to propose the liquidation of experiences positive, vital and useful for many territories and the entire economy of E regions of the Country with arguments of insufficient consistency and such to reveal a brutally aggressive approach towards a part of the harbour truths of the Country that could be interpreted as "lobbysmo without culture", that it tries to impose "the law of more hard". I will return on this topic in order to develop it in a next occasion. For the time being I observe in the merit that is sure true that on 9,5 million teu enlivened in Italy the great majority is worked in the ports of the arc North the West (Savona, Genoa, La Spezia and Livorno), in the ports of the East North (Ravenna, Venice and Trieste) and in the ports of transhipment (Gioia Tauro, Cagliari and Taranto). But it is also sure true that the traffic container less represents (in tons) of 30% of the total traffics goods and that some ports center of Harbour Authority have chosen an own specialization. He is therefore amazing to read that, to judgment of Spediporto, the Harbour Authorities of remaining "the 11 ports", they would go suppressed because "their traffics would be limited", citing exactly Augusta (according to Italian port for liquid bulk) and Messina (first Italian port for the passengers)".

"It is moreover little meaningful - it finds Warriors - to recall the expense of the institutional organs regarding the expense of the staff being able to object that the index out-tops where the expense of the staff is more contained. More in general terms, the organs of a Harbour Authority represent quotas "Share capital" that can produce added value for the Country and own territory and are disheartening and misleading, besides demagogic, a judgment that gushes from the mere costs without relation with the produced benefits".

"If we make reference the difficult phase that Italy is crossing and to the put normative provisions for the time being in field from the government Monti - emphasizes Warriors - the engagement of all in order to go beyond and obtaining a true autonomy would have to be strengthened financial institution of more competitive the Harbour Authorities and in order to return our job more efficient and our ports. Al moment is however our task to work in order to allow the objectives contained in the norms gushed from the risk default ("decrees Development", "Law of Stability", "Charter of the Enterprises", "Saves Italy", "Grows Italy", "Simplifies Italy")".

"Perhaps Spediporto - the president of the Harbour Authority of Piombino concludes - will consider more profit to indicate insufficient objectives than simple redistribuzione of and insignificant public resources deriving from the debatable indicated actions, but we prefer to collect very other challenges, as that of the application of the several forms of public-private partnership for the performance of the previewed infrastructural projects in the regional, national and European programs, in the respect of the transparency and the corrected competition of market".