Assoporti, the financing to the port of Venice must be placed in a picture of total strategic design



Yesterday the directive council of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) has examined the recent dispute between the Harbour Authorities of Genoa and Venice provoked from the green light of the Commission budget, treasure and programming of the Chamber of Deputies to a destined financing of 100 million euros to the Venetian harbour agency for the project for the realization of a platform of height in front of the port of Venice.

The appropriation is contested by the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa and president of Assoporti, Luigi Merlo, concerning of out of the little tens of million euro of destined public funds to the entire Italian portualità and moreover assigned to a project that has not still completed the iter necessary for its approval. Merlon has preannounced own resignation from president of Assoporti if the financing for Venice is not blocked by the Senate ( on 16 November 2012).

To conclusion of the reunion yesterday the council of Assoporti has circulated a note with which it has expressed "appreciation for the job and the results achieved in these months from the association under the guide of president Merlo. To leave - it has specified the directive council - it is from I confront parliamentarian on the law of reform of the 84/94, on "spending review" with reference to the safeguard of the organic plants, to I confront with the parts underwriters of the interassociativo agreement in topic of the nautical services technical, to the action of assertion of the role of interlocutor with the government".

The note continues explaining that the directive council has taken note "that the financing previewed in the bill of stability in favor of the Harbour Authority of Venice is finalized, in the within of the realization of Mose, to an participation closely of mitigation", but specifying that "cannot be sottacere, at the same time, than such financing must however be placed in a picture of total strategic design of the harbour logistic system".

Assoporti therefore has renewed to the government the demand "to start immediately a table permanete of confronts, to the aim to ask for that, in order to answer to particular requirements, they are gone to precondition requirements and future developments of the field".

Moreover the directive council of Assoporti has engaged the government and the parliament "to upgrade the measures of "autonomy financial institution", limited today - the association has remembered - to l% of the VAT produced from the Italian ports beyond 70 million. The autonomy financial institution - it has evidenced Assoporti - is the more valid instrument in order to allow with the vituous ports of having resources such to answer to the potentiality of the traffics".

At last the directive council of Assoporti has announced that while the table is started of confronts for renews of the national collective bargaining agreement of the workers of the ports, specifying that such table is contingent on the problem solving which the exclusion of the Harbour Authorities in the ISTAT directory of Public Administration. To such purpose the directive council has communicated that, as well as to support the action of the Harbour Authority of Naples that has introduced resorted to the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT of the Latium relatively to the application to the Harbour Authorities of the new measures of control of the expenses supported from Public Administration, it intends to act also during reform of law 84/94 in argument to the Chamber of Deputies.