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the Italian ports do not have to continue to being considered a kind of optional
It emphasizes Assoporti, that a directory of the priorities of the field for the new government anticipates
February 13, 2013

Although they are used for 53% of the import-export of Italy, although they are second third party in Europe for cargo handling and for the passengers, although they realize a value of the production pairs to beyond 6,5 billion euros, the ports - for Italy - "continue to being a kind of optional and all the last financial provisions of normative type and condemn them to an inexorable decline".

The denunciation is of Assoporti, the national association that reunites the Harbour Authorities, that it asks the government and the parliament who will gush from the next elections "the immediate performance of a series of provisions of real emergency and especially - he has emphasized the association - an abrupt turnabout regarding the approach of chronic disinterestedness and guilty sottovalutazione of the importance of the field, victim of a deficiency of strategic vision, measures that total has mortified the role of the Harbour Authorities and an absence almost than programming in the allocation of the insufficient public resources available".

In the directory of the priorities subordinates from the Harbour Authorities to the future government, that we publish below, Assoporti invokes the immediate adoption of finalized provisions among other things "to give back autonomy to the Harbour Authorities, (today equiparate to mere bureaucratic organisms), rimuovendo those constraints of expense that prevent they to be the real institutional engine of the logistic and territorial development. To remove therefore the improper comparison to Public Administration beginning from those reported to the dependent (being cleared the field from risks today realize of a social conflict); to confer to the Harbour Authorities a effectively central role of coordination, simplification of the administrative processes and the services (today also of competence of other agencies and offices) and acceleration of the administrative procedures let alone of the participations of programming, planning and realization of infrastructural participations; to put into effect in the ports how much previewed in matter of project bond and to realize the coordination (previewed in Save-Italy) between ports and to interpose to you".

According to Assoporti, "solo attributing to Harbour Authorities with a real autonomy financial institution, and therefore to the president of the Harbour Authorities the effective responsibility (and the effective to be able that of it achieves) of the entire coordination (and control on the costs) of the activities in port, is on the side sea is on the side earth, can be placed the bases for throws again of the field". "I throw again - it has specified the association - that passes also through a recovery of the competitiveness of the harbour operators through the partial and temporary control of the social burdens for the authorized enterprises to operate in port (article 16,17 and 18 of law 84 of the 94), but also a reduction of the octrois on the energetic produced ones consumed from means used exclusively in port and the fixation of sure and homogenous rules in matter of Imu on the state property assets".

Moreover Assoporti, "in the light of how much it is happening in Europe in topic of transeuropee nets - it has specified the association - proposes the government who will come to elaborate a strategic plan of national the logistic system that makes hinge on the national portualità, as only subject in a position to conjugating the requirements of interchange of the European nets with those which extended of the Mediterranean (and therefore of the extra countries EU), guaranteeing among other things that specialization of the operations of transhipment in the ports that live operate competition with the ports of call of the Africa north. The unexpressed potentialities ask moreover a finalized plan the exploitation for all for the crocieristico market".

At last Assoporti asks the future ministers and parliamentarians "the start for a reflection deepened on a new harbour model of governance that make of the logistic subject Authorities Harbour of areas which extended in the within of the policies of regional planning, characterizing also the possibility of constitution or definition of multiharbour systems and multiport of call. The all conditioned to a real autonomy financial institution of the Harbour Authorities finalized to allow a constant infrastructural increase, also by means of new relationships of partnership with the private ones. Assoporti besides to propose the provisions to assume in the first months of government to cost zero - it has anticipated the association - will introduce to the new executive the lines guides of an own proposal of reform of the harbour law".



Priority of the Harbour Authorities for the future Government

The main national marine ports, than singularly considered constitute public good composite truth (, infrastructural systems, nodes of the logistic net, systems of enterprises and centers of multiple interests publics), represent for Italy, in theirs with, a complex of strategic valence from the point of view of the productive and logistic competitiveness of the Country, as well as from the economic, occupational and social point of view.

This is certain if it is had with regard to the essential carried out functions, also in various measure, from every port to service of the productive systems and of consumption of the territories, national and international, of reference.

They are worth to such care the relative data to the import/export that it uses for about 54% the marine way, turning out our Country so, also in a period of crisis, to 3° the place in Europe for harbour handlings of goods. Quite, Italy is placed to 2° the place between all fleeting the European Countries for traffic and, esteem, to first for number of economic crocieristi let alone for fallen back and places of work generated from the activities tied to the crocieristico field.

Specific studies of deepening, repeated in the years, also testify the contribution that the portualità supplies to the GDP and the national occupation, also favoring in some areas of the Country the reconversion to logistic harbour uses of industrial areas dismesse.

For services of harbour logistics and the activities auxiliaries, a value of the production for beyond € 6.500 million and almost 32,000 is estimated occupied directed.

The system of the Harbour Authorities, second the last studies, generates, making use of single 1280 occupied, a value of the advanced production to a billion of euro with a multiplying effect of about 4,7; new expenses and investments for 100 euros by the Harbour Authorities, generate that is beyond 470 euros in the total economic circuit.

To all this they go added to the production and the occupation generated from all those branches of the marine-harbour field altogether intended - industrial and terziarie marine activities (marine transports/armament, shipbuilding naval, peach, marine transport) and institutional subjects (Harbour offices and, partially, Marina Militare) - whose activities cannot prescind from the portualità.

All these data, and in particular those regarding specifically the ports, cannot but make us to forget that, if by 1997 to the 2008 - year in which they are burst the American and before then European crises that are still upsetting the world - traffic goods dealt from the Italian ports it is increased of 27% while that treaty .da the European ports is increased of 50%.

Parimenti is undeniable as from too much time the importance and the strategicità of these truths adequately is not valued. Neither politics founded on the knowledge of the opportunities and the difficulties have been materialized to which the ports are currently of forehead.

Today the Italian ports suffer the competition of the foreign ports of call that compete for the Italian markets to ours with the assistance of national logistic and railway operators also.

The event of the lacked reform the law 84/94 - however only partially adapted to the effective requirements - and that of the debilitating arm-wrestle on the autonomy financial institution, risoltosi with a widely unsatisfactory solution, are the single lands on which Government and Parliament have shown a minor negligence to the Italian portualità.

In fact politics for the Italian ports have been translate, on one side in penalizing measures objective, a phase in which, to the effects induced from the economic crisis to national and supernational scale, they add the strong competition is of Mediterranean marine ports of call is of ports of call of the Sea of the North.

From the other, neglecting to face measures understandings to face the most important and historical elements of weakness and the threats which the national ports are exposed:

  • deficiency of total vision in the organization dl a strategy that translate in national terms the full stop constituted from the European decisions in matter of nets Tries;
  • absence of a vision strategic in the allocation of the little public funds on hand for the infrastructuring also to the aims to favor the involvement dl private financings;
  • low level of physical connection (in particular railway) and infotelematica with the other nodes and subjects of the net;
  • excessive complexity of the norms, uncertainties of the decisional processes;
  • lack of a unitary conception of the activity that is carried out in every port, as well as to earth how much in sea, that earth needs of a twofold coordination sea/and between administrative activities and activity of market.
The Harbour Authorities, the public bodies to which for law the task is entrusted to administer these truths and to promote of the infrastructural and operating development, that is a model of subject of administration for many backs peculiar, conceived according to those objectives, indeed improperly is equiparate to mere bureaucratic organisms and has quickly, from 5 years and more, cuts than it capitulate budgetary for maintenances, promotion (than also it is one of the institutional tasks), intermediate consumption; controls of the organic ones; removal of resources whose lacked spold era turning out unsurpassable procedural obstacles; overlap of tasks of other agencies not opportunely coordinated with those of the same Harbour Authorities.

But, above all, it is restated, the Harbour Authorities and the entire system of the ports has suffered from the lack of a strategic vision, of politics that dictate priority, indispensable still more when ristrettezze of the budget return impossible resolutive answers to the expectations of all: agencies and operators.

All this neither partially balanced: from the adaptation of voices of entrances (the taxes and the admiralty laws) that, also necessary, it has come to fall in way automatic rifle in a phase in which maximum minimal increment of cost is the sensibility of the economic operators for every also; from a “autonomy financial institution” that, for dimensions, it is completely inadequate to the requirements of investment in the ports. Equally ill-timed effects are legacies to tariff increments of the technical-nautical services that reduce the competitiveness of our ports of call in a moment of contraction of the market.

The Harbour Authorities, own which subjects of the development of the ports, essential logistic knots of a system that from transport net it must be transformed in completed industrial logistic net of the depositor south of Europe, propose therefore the Government who will exit from the next electoral challenge, in a phase favorably of resumption of the Country, the immediate adoption of measures understandings to:

  • to give back to autonomy and specialty to the Harbour Authorities, rimuovendo expense constraints that they prevent to they to carry out the institutional function of engine of the logistic and territorial development;
  • to remove improper comparisons to Public Administration, beginning from those reported own employee, clearing in such a way the field from concrete (and dangerous) risks of social conflicts;
  • to strengthen the role of coordination of the various subjects private publics and in the harbour phase being returned it effective, that is allowing with the Harbour Authorities to adopt measures understandings in concrete terms to compensate and to place remedy to those deficiencies of agencies and offices that operate offering services and administrative activities that complete the harbour phase eg. (customs, marine health, etc);
  • attributing to the Harbour Authorities the possibility to graduate some costs, at least until the overcoming of the more difficult phase of the crisis, in competitive function; to simplify, to velocizzare and to give certainty of times of the administrative procedures, in particular to the processes of planning, programming and realization of the infrastructural participations in the ports and for the connections between the ports, guiding street and the railway ones, the logistic nodes insides;
  • to put into effect how much previewed with respect to the introduction of the Project Bond;
  • to put into effect how much content in the c.d, D.L. Italy saves, art. 46, with the greater integration between ports and to interpose to you.
The completion of the autonomy financial institution would have to then become as well as premised how much consequence of an application a regime of competition between the ports.

Competition between ports, harbour autonomy, responsibility of the harbour authorities, is three faces of the same medal that demand the identification of a last responsible for the course of the activities in a port. This places the problem of the acknowledgment in the President of the Harbour Authority or however in the same Harbour Authority, the agency effectively in charge of the efficient one and coordinated course of all the activities in port, is those which are carried out to earth are those which they carry out on the side sea, are of the activities carried out in market regime, are features of activity of Public Administration.

In the respect of the customs responsibilities, sanitary, of police, of safety in sea, etc, it is necessary in fact that a effective power of coordination - and control of the costs is recognized - of the activities in port equipping AP of powers correspondents to the responsibilities that are attributed it.

Contextually the A.P consider of being able to make own requirements and priority of competitive riallineamento of the economic operators of the field of the harbour logistics, which:

  • the partial and temporary control of the social burdens of the authorized enterprises former articles. 16, 17 and 18, L.84/94;
  • a reduction of the octrois of the used energetic produced ones from exclusively operating means in harbour areas;
  • the fixation of sure and homogenous rules in topic of IMU on the entrusted marine state property assets in concession.

To follow those urgent and priority participations, the A.P consider necessary, and propose the future Government of the Country, to set to, in coherence with the design of the transeuropee nets of transport IT TRY that it is gone redefining in center EU, and with the proposals of harbour politics that are being estimated to Brussels, to:

  • to elaborate a strategic plan of development of the logistic system, which pivoted on the national portualità, as part of the logistic net of Europe in order to serve the Italian regional markets in the connections between they and with the Mediterranean ports; of the access to the Continent from south; of bridge and door of access for the Countries of the front south of the Mediterranean; of the strengthening and the increase of marine connections of short and having medium range characteristic of “Freeways of the sea” and their extension also to Mediterranean countries extra-EU third party; the specialization of the operations of transhipment in the ports that, in this segment of traffic they have as concurrent North African marine ports of call;
  • to set up a plan that supports the increase of the crocieristica valence of the Italian ports and the best valorization of the historical resources, cultural and landscaped of the territories;
  • the start of a deepened reflection on the adaptation of the model of Government of the ports also estimating the possibility, to attract new traffics, making of the logistic subject Harbour Authorities of area in the within of the policies of order of the territory (therefore also of policies that are regional and/or interregional) in a position to effectively affecting the costs of the harbour phase, in order to assure the economization of the system, also being adapted, possible, logical whereby competitive to the regulation (to lead back in head to the Harbour Authorities) of single necessary services in the harbour phase; of constitution/definition of systems fines harbour and multiport of call, however coordinating the policies of investment of the single ports;
  • to adapt to the level of the autonomy financial institution of the A.P in order to allow a effective infrastructural increase, also by means of PPP initiatives, and in order to realize the connections lacking between the ports and the nets.
Rome, 12.2.2013
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Lugano
Forum on economic and logistical integration between Ligurian ports, the Northwest manufacturing area, and Switzerland
DEME orders new cable-laying vessel from Singapore-based PaxOcean
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
It will be built in the Chinese shipyard of Zhoushan
Assoporti will meet at RemTech EXPO 2025 to discuss the green transition in Italian ports.
Ferrara
The Smart Ports Award was awarded to three Port System Authorities
The first shipment of Syrian oil in 14 years arrives at the port of Trieste.
London
Part of the cargo - S&P Global Commodity Insights reports - was unloaded at the Sardinian terminal of Sarroch
In August, freight traffic in the port of Taranto grew by +20.3%
Taranto
The ferry "Drea" was also rejected by the Apulian port, where however it is temporarily stopped
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles remained stable in August.
Los Angeles
Volumes expected to decline in the remainder of 2025
Meeting between the port authorities of Jacksonville and Livorno
Livorno
Among the objectives, to start one or more direct services between the two ports
Italian State Railways and ENAC sign an agreement for the use of drones in infrastructure monitoring.
Rome
They will also be used to fly over sections of the railway and road network that would otherwise be difficult to monitor.
A.SPE.DO, the port of La Spezia is essential to ensuring employment, development, and a future for the local economy.
La Spezia
Landolfi: We cannot afford to underestimate its value.
The MIT meets with the heads of the Italian AdSPs
Rome
Meeting on the government's strategic vision for the sector and port reform
Yang Ming orders Hanwha Ocean Co. to build seven 15,880 TEU container ships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Over 40 expressions of interest have been received for the development of the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk.
Kiev
Today the first meeting of the tender commission
The first commercial ship is expected at the public dock in Largo Trattaroli in Ravenna.
Ravenna
The car carrier "AICC Huanghu" is coming soon
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach decreased by 1.3% last month.
Long Beach
Empty containers are increasing. Full containers are decreasing.
Assiterminal's Terminal Road Show is starting
Genoa
Cognolato: We want to strengthen our ties with local communities and territories.
Assoporti, the Italian ports' cruise offerings presented at the Seatrade Europe fair.
Hamburg
Giampieri: We are leaders in the Mediterranean area and in Europe
Commander Claudio Tomei, USCLAC president from 2012 to 2024, has passed away.
Viareggio
His strong commitment to improving the working conditions of Italian seafarers
In the first quarter of 2025, cargo traffic in Greek ports grew by +1.4%
Piraeus
Passengers down by -1.1%
HD Hyundai Samho Orders Four New Container Ships
Seoul
Order worth approximately 468 million dollars
Trieste: Fraudulent bankruptcy in the shipbuilding sector
Trieste
Investigation into a company based in Palermo
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong fell by 7.4% in August.
Hong Kong
In the first eight months of 2025 the decline was -3.8%
BigLift Shipping and CY Shipping order two additional heavy lift vessels
Amsterdam
Order placed at Chinese shipyard Jing Jiang Nanyang Shipbuilding Co.
Container traffic at the port of Singapore continued to decline in August
Singapore
Total volume of goods increased by +1.1%
The Charthage ferry was placed under administrative detention in the port of Genoa
Genoa
A Coast Guard inspection found numerous deficiencies
Disney Cruise Line's largest ship's debut delayed by three months
Lake Buena Vista
Construction delays force the maiden voyage to be postponed until March 10th.
Shell to supply liquefied biomethane to Hapag-Lloyd containerships
Hamburg
Agreement effective immediately
Andrea Zoratti has been appointed general manager of Hub Telematica
Genoa
The company is controlled by Assagenti and Spediporto
Jotun and Messina sign agreement to improve the environmental and commercial performance of ships.
Genoa
The "Jolly Rosa" vessel will use the Hull Skating Solutions solution
PSA Genova Pra' announces the hiring of 25 people dedicated to container handling.
Genoa
Ferrari: International markets have changed profoundly
CMA CGM will not apply surcharges for new US taxes on Chinese vessels and Chinese services
Marseille
The rates announced by the USTR in April will apply from October 14th.
South Korean HJ Shipbuilding wins orders for four 8,850 TEU containerships
Busan
Orders with a total value of approximately 461 million dollars
Conference: "Waiting and Delays in Road Transport: Logistics in Check"
Genoa
Organized by Trasportounito, it will be held on September 26th in Genoa
GNV has inaugurated a new office in Barcelona
Barcelona
The company currently has 52 employees throughout Spain.
Port of Trieste: EU funding for two new projects
Trieste
Resources with a total value of 1.7 million euros
Filt Cgil, the Flotilla incident is serious. Dockworkers are ready to mobilize.
Rome
Union announces action if aid is not allowed to reach Gaza
Stena Line to buy Latvian port operator Terrabalt
Gothenburg
It handles rolling stock, bulk cargo, and general cargo traffic in the port of Liepaja.
In the first eight months of 2025, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +10.6%
Gioia Tauro
2,912,943 TEUs were handled
Meyer Turku begins construction of Royal Caribbean's fourth "Icon"-class cruise ship
Miami/Turku
It will be delivered in 2027
More than one in ten maritime shipments has shortages
Washington
This is what a report by the World Shipping Council has revealed, highlighting the safety risks
Last July, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +3.8%
Ravenna
In the first seven months of 2025, growth was +5.4%
In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in Belgian ports fell by -3.2%.
Brussels
Landings down 1.3% and embarkations down 5.4%
Product tanker High Fidelity rescues 38 migrants on a drifting dinghy
Rome
Intervention in the south of the island of Crete
GES and RINA sign agreement to develop a prototype of a new hydrogen battery
Rovereto/Genoa
PSA's second phase of container terminal at Mumbai Port inaugurated
Singapore
Annual traffic capacity will increase to 4.8 million TEUs
The conference "EU ETS - Perspectives and Opportunities for Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector" will be held in Palermo.
Rome
It will be held on September 18th and 19th
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
A seminar on the new law on interports will be held in Milan on October 2nd.
Milan
It is organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Padua
The eighth edition of "A Sea of Switzerland" will be held in Lugano on October 6th.
Lugano
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Korean Firms Reassess U.S. Investments After Mass Immigration Raid
(The Korea Bizwire)
Russia's infrastructure development plan aims to build 17 marine terminals by 2036
(Interfax)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Fincantieri and PGZ sign an agreement to support the modernization of the Polish Navy
Trieste
The third LSS section for Chantiers de l'Atlantique was launched in Castellammare di Stabia.
In the US, funding for wind energy development projects in ports is being cut.
Washington
Resources worth $679 million will be reallocated for port infrastructure upgrades
From January 1st, Kombiverkehr will operate the PKV intermodal terminal in the port of Duisburg.
Frankfurt am Main
It has a traffic capacity of approximately 200 thousand intermodal units per year.
Wallenius Marine and ABB form Overseas joint venture
Stockholm
The aim is to accelerate the launch of the platform of the same name for improving fleet performance.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has asked the Region to agree on the appointment of Bagalà as president of the Sardinian Port Authority.
Rome
He is currently the extraordinary commissioner of the same body
DHL eCommerce has acquired a minority stake in Saudi Arabia's AJEX Logistics Services.
Bonn/Riyadh
The Middle Eastern company has two thousand employees
CMPort's port terminals handled record container traffic in the second quarter
Hong Kong
In the first six months of 2025 the total was 78.8 million TEUs (+4.3%)
Confitarma approves the decree on advanced training for tanker seafarers.
Rome
Applause to the General Command of the Port Authority Corps
Quarterly freight traffic in Moroccan ports increases
Tangier/Casablanca
In Tanger Med the growth was +17%
The board of directors of the Genoa-based Ente Bacini has been renewed.
Genoa
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