Protocol of Unioncamere understanding - Assoporti for I throw again of the economy of the sea



Today the president of Unioncamere, Ferruccio Dardanello, and the president of Assoporti, Luigi Merlo, an understanding protocol has undersigned that has between the objectives primary the promotion of initiatives times to improve the efficiency, safety and the environmental sustainability in the management of the harbour areas, the retroporti and the structures of access to the terrestrial net and the logistics centers, the simplification of the administrative implementations that regard the activities tied to the economy of the sea graces to more tightened collaboration between the various agencies of the field (Harbour Authorities, Harbour office and Agency of Customs) so to realize able innovative solutions to diminish the costs of "the blue" bureaucracy and to velocizzare the commercial exchanges.

Through the protocol, Unioncamere and Assoporti intend also to start processes of collaboration and exchange of good replicable practical in the territories, in order to promote and to diffuse actions and projects thesis to the improvement of the operating structures, as well as the sharing of the respective informative patrimony for monitoring and analysis activity, also with reference to specific inherent professional requirements the marine and harbour field.

"The economy of the sea - it has found the president of Unioncamere - is as a "blue heart" that it pulsates to the bottom of the productive system of the Country. Extraordinary a strategic resource that in these years of crisis it has continued to beat also to faster rhythms regarding the remainder of the economy. We have the duty - it has emphasized Ferruccio Dardanello - to favour this heartbeat in order to support the territories and to help Italy to find again the distance of the increase. One of the priority ways is sure that of the simplification of the enterprise activities that rotate around the sea. A objective that we will be able to reach only making system between all the involved institutions and is for that the understanding with Assoporti covers a strategic value of first floor in this direction".

"This agreement - Luigi Merlo has confirmed - is important as it sanctions a cooperation between the represented harbour field from the association of the agencies of management of greater the harbour ports of call in Italy and from the field of the enterprises represented from Unioncamere. They are sure - it has specified the president of Assoporti - that we will succeed together with forward giving the just thrust for the economy of the sea, much beloved to both the associations and so much precious for our Country".

Unioncamere and Assoporti have explained that to the base of the understanding there is the recognized importance of the rows of the sea, recently emphasized in occasion of States general of the organized Economy of the Sea from Unioncamere. In the 2011 - they have remembered - contribution to the added value produced in Italy from the riconducibili rows to the economy of the sea it piled to 41,2 billion euros, with an incidence of 2.9%. on the total of the wealth produced in the Country. In sector terms, the more meaningful contribution is that legacy to the tourist activities and of administration, with an added value quota pairs to 31% of all the section of the sea. To remarkable distance they follow on the same level the activities of search (18.0%), the so-called row of the shipbuilding one (that it groups is the production and repair of boats that distributive one) that it grazes 16% and the marine transport of goods and passengers who stop themselves to 15.5%. Draft, therefore - they have evidenced Unioncamere and Assoporti - of a field of fundamental importance for many of our territories but, above all that legacy to the transport goods, is important for the competitiveness of the system Country on the whole, also to light of the new guidelines emerged during the Union, is with the Growth Blue that through the various initiatives in the within of the marine strategy, between which the nets IT TRY and the freeways of the sea.