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Emanuele Grimaldi towards the presidency of Confitarma
the Italian fleet is placed to 12° the place in the world-wide ranking
June 19, 2013
Today to Rome, presided from Paolo d' Amico, has held the private session of the Shipping assembly of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma) that anniversary 2012 has proceeded to the approval of the budget and the relation. In the course of the reunion the Commission of designation has anticipated the assembly that from the consultations for the future presidency it has turned out candidated the only Emanuele Grimaldi, managing director of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi and current vice-president of Confitarma.
the assembly will meet next 9 newly October in order to proceed to the election of the new council and the new president of the Confederation. Within the turn of the year the other social organs will be named all.
In the course of the today's assembly the president of Friend has illustrated the activity carried out from Confitarma in relation to problematic of the field having emphasized that the general political confusion in which it has been come to find Italy in the last year has returned the relationships with Public Administration and in particular with the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports particularly difficult. "Although the general not easy context - it has said of Friend - Confitarma however has obtained what it could be obtained in order to guarantee the competitiveness of our fleet, than at the end of 2012 it is pairs to 19,1 million tons of tonnage, consistency confirmed also to june 2013, places to 12° the place in the world-wide ranking of the main fleets and to the quarter place between the fleets of flag of the European Union and confirmation between young to the world, with the 66% of the ship of inferior age to the 10 years and the 44% with less than five years". "The Italian shipowners, in spite of the adverse economic conjuncture - it has concluded the president of Confitarma - grow and continue to compete on the markets and are proud than we have made and trusting to know to face with vigor the future challenges".
At last the assembly of Confitarma, in remembering that the riflemen Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone are still withheld in India, has wished that the event can finally be resolved with theirs re-enters as soon as possible in Italy.
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