Monti (AP Civitavecchia): it is favorable that the law of reform of the ports is approved of within the end of the legislature



It is favorable that the new Italian law on the ports is approved of within the current mandate parliamentarian. It has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia Fiumicino Gaeta, Pasqualino Monti, that he plays also the role of vice-president vicar of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), in the course of the sixteenth edition of Euro Med Convention "From Land to organized Sea" from the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi that has been concluded yesterday to Palermo.

He is sperabile - Monti has said - "that within the end of the legislature is approved of the reform law: also in the knowledge of the necessity of ulterior participations, it would be however an important sign and a meaningful step forward regarding law 84/94, that he was born old already 18 years ago, regarding the requirements of the portualità and the market, which it must go encounter. Task, for example - it has specified - to the overcoming of the current role of the same Harbour Authorities, than to my warning must have competences also on the logistics: it cannot be thought, as for example it happens just to Civitavecchia, to develop harbour infrastructures, of having on hand five million retroportuali square metres and remaining choked without adequate street and railway connections. It is necessary - it has found Monti - a subject that can put to system the infrastructural net. The game of the competitiveness of our ports of call cannot be limited to the single harbour cycle, but it is played also on the connections to their shoulders, on the efficiency in moving the people and the goods once disembarked and exited from the ports, towards their destination".

In its participation the president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia has evidenced also the important role of the Latium port of call in the system of the Italian Freeways of the Sea. "When for the first time the port of Civitavecchia earns traffics thanks to the goods, while "it suffers" for the passengers for exogenous causes - it has emphasized Monti - we want launch a challenge that it leave just from the Freeways of the Sea, with the infrastructural and operating doubling left with the beginning of the work of the new dock "Sant'Egidio"". Monti has candidated the port of Civitavecchia to being "the port of call of reference for the roman market and the Italy center, the second area of consumption of the Country and fifth in Europe. "The port of Civitavecchia - it has added - is the only one in Italy that today earns 10% in the traffic of the goods and regarding last year boasts a +16.8% regarding the occupation in the harbour system".

With Monti they are taken part the mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, the president of the Harbour Authority of the Sicilian capital, Antonio Bevilacqua, the administrator of Net Mediterranean Freeways (RAM), Tommaso Affinita, the European coordinator of the freeways of the Luis Valente De Oliveira sea, the president of the Harbour Authority of Savona, Cristoforo Canavese, and the managing director of Grimaldi Group, Emanuele Grimaldi.