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I throw again of the Italian economy passes through the ports
Introduced to Genoa the volume "The new Economic Port Landscape. Economic Performance and Social Progress"
July 2, 2012
Today the strategic role of the ports for the future of Italy is pairs to what the factory and industrialization they have had to beginning ‘900. It has emphasized this morning the president of General Consulta for the Road haulage and the Logistics, Bartolomeo Giachino, in occasion of the presentation of the book "The new Economic Port Landscape. Economic Performance and Social Progress. The new harbour economic panorama. Economic performances and social progress", by Hilda Ghiara (DIEM - University of Genoa), held in the center of the Chamber of Commerce of organized Genoa and from the C.I.S.Co. (Council of Intermodal Shipping Consultants), from Genoa Port Center (GPC) and the Department of Economy and Quantitative Methods (DIEM) of the University of Genoa.
Genoa Giachino it has asked the genoese ones to make promoters of the initiatives, centralized on the development of efficient a harbour and logistic system, that they will be able to allow with Italy to play a role of first floor in the second phase of the globalization: after to have lost the first phase, focused on the offshorings - it has explained - we must win the second phase of the globalization constituted from the return of the goods. "I waited for me - he has said - that from Genoa arrives a sollicitation more hard".
In particular, Giachino has asked the institutions and the associations of the field to make pressures in order to accelerate the realization of the door only customs, innovation "to cost zero" that but the government it has not inserted in I decree Development and that it is before the four measures that Consulta has introduced to minister Passera between that inserting in the governmental provision to the aim of throws again of the logistic system and economic Italian. The objective is in fact to increase the competitiveness of the national ports and their ability to capture new flows of traffic with consequent benefit for the cases of the State. Giachino has emphasized that, second a recent study of the University Bites of Milan, the costs of not making, that is those generated from the lack of a efficientamento of national the logistic apparatus, will pile to 210 billion euros from here to 2020.
An open game - Giachino has remembered - is also that of the center of the new Authority of the Transports, for which Genoa can be candidated having papers in order in order to make it. Candidacy - it has specified genoese senator Enrico Musso - that already is advanced so as for a long time by Genoa has left the demand to equip to the ports of an own autonomy financial institution: assigning to the Harbour Authorities, as expected from the recent one I decree Development ( on 18 June 2012), only 1% of the Vat and the sat one collected in the ports - it has found Musso - but "have given birth a topolino". The senator has rimarcato also the importance to support the competitiveness and the development of the ports with of measures financial institutions, between which for example project bond and the emission of scope obligations.
The president of the C.I.S.Co., Enrico Scerni, has plaudito to the process of reorganization of the harbour areas in existence to Genoa that is placing fine to a fragmentation of the incompatible port of call with the requirements of the current traffics, while in its participation the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Genoa, Paolo Odone, has evidenced the indispensability to still put into effect two infrastructural works key for the development of the genoese and national economy and from some osteggiate: highway Gronda of Genoa, on which - Odone has denounced - new mayor Marco Doria has expressed perplexity, and the Third railway Pass Genoa-Milan, work that according to the president of the Piemonte Region - it has accused - does not have to be realized.
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