of Friend (Confitarma): the Harbour Authorities make use quickly from of the faculty annulling the increment of the taxes



The requests of the Italian marine-harbour cluster continue to being unheard with obvious negative repercussions for the economy of the Country. It has found today the Shipping president of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma) and of the Federation of the Sea, Paolo d' Amico, taking part to Rome to the encounter on the topic of the economy of the organized sea from the Party Democratic.

Between the problematic sundries on the carpet, of Friend it has placed the accent on the connected requirement of a efficient normative system and on the problematic ones to the rates of the technical-nautical services and to the harbour taxes. "The rules, for being efficient and finalized to the attainment of concrete objectives - it has explained - must be become simpler. From years we have proposed normative modifications to cost zero that besides to facilitate the life of the operators, would carry advantages and savings to all the system".

With regard to the intention of the PD manifested by Matteo Mauri and Enrico Letta to restore a Ministry of Transportation independent inside of which to dedicate a specific attention to the sea, of Friend it has asserted that "for a long time Confitarma has drawn the attention of the numerous and complex political forces on the requirement of an organism dedicated to the thematic ones of the sea that today unfortunately turn out fragmented and distributed in many centers: we need being able to speak with an only interlocutor who understands our problems and with which to find the solution better".

The president of Confitarma has then restated the opportunity that the control of the harbour rates remainders entrusted the ministry, in order to avoid that the very harmful decentralization makes to prevail logical of localistico type. "For all - it has found - the example of the service is worth above all withdrawal refusals from the ships that a deleterious climate of unreliability between the operators has given rise to the proliferation of various disciplines from port to port having created and giving rise to unwarrantable and completely discriminatory tariff increases to the detriment of the users. It is well to remember - it has emphasized of Friend - than the services returned to the ship in the ports are not paid by the Harbour Authorities but by the companies of navigation users. This is an incontrovertible fact".

Moreover of Friend the position of Confitarma with regard to the liberalization of the nautical services has restated technical, confirming the requirement to look to such liberalizations with the necessary caution in order to avoid that the their practical application, can in practice determine contrary economic-organizational solutions to the interests of the user of such services".

With respect to the harbour taxes, that they increase of 30% from on January 6, 2013 and ulterior a 15% from on January 1°, 2014, of Friend it has evidenced that "you increase of such capacity guarantee a greater jettison at sea to the Harbour Authorities of about 65 million annual from 2013 and of the ulterior ones 33 million annual from 2014, but impose on the marine traffic and the cargo and disembarked a heavy burden that besides to ulteriorly reduce the level of competitiveness of our ports with the diversion of the traffics towards ports of call foreign countries, hits in particular the operating companies in the cabotage between national ports". "The anchor duty, than is estimated on the total net tonnage of the ships - it has continued the president of Confitarma - has quickly from 1993 today an increment of 130% as a result of the increase of the number of the ships and their medium tonnage, thanks to the huge investments carried out from the companies of navigation in new constructions. Moreover, in the same period, the tax harbour, than is estimated on the tons of cargo and disembarked in the Italian ports, it quickly has an increment of about 29%. If it is considered that the index of the cost of living is increase of 54.36%, turns out obvious as the adaptation of the two taxes is completely unwarrantable since their jettison at sea, in the same period, is in fact more than adapted. In conclusion - it has found of Friend - it does not remain that to wish that the Harbour Authorities, with sense of responsibility and coherently with the policies of control of the costs announced from some they authoritative exponents, make use quickly from of the faculty they granted to annul the increment, being given a concrete sign of their engagement to return our ports of call more competitive and that the political forces are engaged timely, in the course of the next legislature, see again the completely inopportune provision in so critical a conjunctural economic phase".