Merlon (Assoporti): an acceleration of the nets is right TRIES



"An acceleration of the nets is right TRIES so that Italy can totally offer to Germany its natural vocation inside of the Mediterranean, above all in the relations with Africa". It has emphasized the president of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) and of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, in the margin of the forum "German-Italian cooperation for the development of the Trans-European organized from the Chamber of Commerce Italian-German and opened Transport Networks" with the salutes of the consul general of Italy Filippo Scammacca of the Murgo and some representatives of the Chamber and the Fair who has held today in the within of the fair Transport Logistic in development to Monk of Bavaria.

Participating to the panel dedicated to the "Investments in the main logistic poles inside of the possible corridors and partnership Italian-Germans", Merlon has evidenced the necessity to proceed to a deep change of Italian harbour politics in order to do so as that a solid relationship between the two Countries can be constructed, through a modification of the old outlines, leaving from a common address of the European Union and passing from the respective national governments.

"We head - it has said Merlon - to a strong collaboration between the two Countries, with new bases and a solid European approach. It is necessary to bear in mind which are the necessities of the market and the goods, and as facing the node of infrastructures, introducing total politics of the ports and the transports. Moreover, we believe is a lot important to proceed to the emanation of the regulations of the European Union on the ports, for which we work with attention and cure daily, since we are convinced that with of the sure and common rules increase opportunity can only be truly created".

To the encounter they have taken part, between the others, also the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Claudia Marcolin, the president of Ligurian Ports and the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, and the president of the Harbour Authority of Taranto, Sergio Prete. Sharing the words of the president of Assoporti, Forcieri has found that "the resources are limited" and that "not there is more space for cathedral in the desert and pharaonic works financed with money publics. Deep the available ones - it has specified Forcieri - must be destined to essential participations, as the dredgings and the works of great infrastructuring, while the docks must be realized with the participation of the private ones. Only so we will have the guarantee of their usefullness (so it has happened and it is happening to, for example). With this and the effective autonomy financial institution, we could throw again the harbour system, as towing for the resumption of the Country".

Also the president of the harbour authority of Taranto has declared himself in agreement with the line expressed from Merlon and has added that "it is necessary to not only overwhelm the differences with the harbour systems of the Europe North with the necessary infrastructural adaptation, but also - he has specified Sergio Prete - through a meaningful modification of the Italian harbour norm and a greater efficiency of the intermodalità and the logistics. Italy can carry out a role key which platform between the Mediterranean and the market of the Union, setting itself which actor privileged in confronts of the new markets developing (North Africa and the Balkans)".

To conclusion of the forum Merlon it has restated how much is important to proceed to a change of politics of the ports with an only direction that holds account of the real potentialities of the Italian ports of call let alone of the necessities of the market, being improved the total logistic row.