Assoporti proposes a Bottom near CDP and new financial instruments in order to throw again the harbour field



The Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) asks that national the harbour ports of call are equipped of self-determination financial institution. Not more than autonomy financial institution for the Harbour Authorities the president speaks in fact about the association, Pasqualino Monti, in the report that he has introduced today to the shareholders' meeting of Assoporti held to Rome and that we publish in the address book "Forum of the Shipping and the Logistics", specifying that for self-determination he intends the "ability to take advantage of all the instruments possible in order to realize in times breviums new offered harbour and to guarantee efficiency without to affect the budget of the State".

Emphasizing that "the ports, on the contrary of great part of the assets publics, today are a resource for the Country, not a burden" and that "they feed the cases of the State with beyond 13 billion jettison at sea between Vat and octrois, obtaining in exchange sproporzionatamente meager financings for maintenance and infrastructuring" and remembering that the autonomy financial institution up to now granted to the Harbour Authorities has yielded the acknowledgment of the right of the ports to only withhold 1% of their jettison at sea Vat with a maximum of 90 million euros, Monti has introduced a new proposed formulated from Assoporti in order to obtain resources for the development and the competitiveness of the harbour ports of call, it leave essential thing of the system Country: "our association - it has explained - today is able to illustrate a proposal that will have to inside find normative definition of the law of reform or provisions of law ad hoc. Our project in the first place heads to cancel the word "maximum", (than however of 1% - it has specified - but the maximum homeless person). Therefore to add to an ulterior quota jettison at sea Vat, but always in the respect of the mechanism rewards them (who more pours than more she will have). To allow I use it parallel and contemporary more financial instruments that are possible, available on the market, pre normati, but insufficient used". "A solution - it has added - that previews the performance of a bottom that can be Deep near Bank of Deposits and Loans and in which to place the coming resources from an ulterior additional quota the jettison at sea Vat and for interventions perequativi resources of the current normative forecast and that it allows us therefore to use all the coherent instruments with the objective to reach".

The proposal is favorably received by the president of Cassa warehouses and loans, Franco Bassanini, that it has participated to the encounter. Emphasizing that "a Country that renounces to value the portualità alone sentence to the decline", Bassanini has found that the main problem is that to construct instruments in a position to attracting and guaranteeing private capitals, acting on the bureaucratic simplification, upgrading the power also of coordination of the Harbour Authorities and reasoning on one side on fiscal forms of boosting to the investments; from the other, on the mass to common factor of resources deriving for example from the liquidity of return to the BCE, deep BEAUTIFUL, deep fairnesses. With an availability of base of Cassa - it has confirmed - also to construct to the Bottom, using the resources here where the market asks it.

Pasqualino Monti has stopped itself also on the necessity to put into effect - in the picture of the process of reform of law 84/94 on the ports - a simplification of the tasks of the Harbour Authorities and their role. According to Assoporti, the Harbour Authorities must in the first place ""exit" immediately from the directory of Public Administration and the public bodies written up annually from the Istat: this - it has evidenced Monti - borne by the State does not mean new burdens, but the acknowledgment of the fact that for law and carried out functions, the Harbour Authorities cannot be subject to norms of public finance only for interpretative analogy of the general norms on Public Administration". Moreover, for Assoporti, the times in order to use a new decisional mechanism to the aim are mature to assure to the Harbour Authorities a more effective rapidity than reaction and of decision: "the president of the Harbour Authority, to the aims of the functions of coordination and the resolution of the problems that regard the port" - has explained Monti - "he can use the instrument of an appropriate conference of the services. That it means: all around a table, but the decisions that to that table are assumed are not object of ulterior argument, of negotiations or second thoughts".

A choral acknowledgment of the strategicità of the ports has arrived from the president of Unioncamere, Ferruccio Dardanello, that it has insistito on the necessity of an immediate procedural simplification "in order to take advantage of the enormous reservoir of the economy of the sea", by Aurelio Regina, vice-president of Confindustria, that it has offered to Assoporti the availability to collaborate until in bottom for the change and taking advantage of through aimed investments the only potentialities of the economy of the sea, and by Emanuele Grimaldi, new Shipping president of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma), that it has emphasized the requirement of quality in the action of the Harbour Authorities. This last one has emphasized the necessity of a vision of the strategic and dynamic role that the Harbour Authorities must assume in the new national and international economic context, evidencing that "not rarely the Italian Harbour Authorities have assumed roles more than rigid control that of promotion of the entrepreneurial initiatives, ending in order to hinder of the development, and unfortunately some presidents have interpreted statically more an political-institutional role than local government that not operating and commercial. In the same period, instead - he has found the president of Confitarma - European the main presidents of Port Authority, as Antwerp, Rotterdam and Amburgo travelled the world in order to promote own docks, wooing the main shipowners and customers offering they concessions and collaboration". "The presidency of the Harbour Authority - it has clarified Emanuele Grimaldi - would have to represent the summit of the entire local community, catalyst of all the interests of the marine cluster and the regional associate-economic woven one. This approach has given splendid results not only in Europe North, but also in Italy, some fortunate cases testified from meaningful increments of traffic. The port of Civitavecchia is sure between these, but it is not the solo. Important sure positive truths do not go forgotten others. Ulterior improvements are possible how much necessary and they could be sure facilitated from a greater cooperation between Assoporti and Confitarma in facing with the main topics of the shipping and the Italian portualità". Regarding the autonomy financial institution recognized to the Harbour Authorities, Emanuele Grimaldi has asserted that also Confitarma shares that the roof of 90 million euros annual can represent a limit to the potentialities of financial the national ports and that an ulterior effort can allow a more effective and sustainable development of harbour infrastructures, such to return our still more efficient and competitive ports.

President of the Commission Trasporti of the Chamber, Michele Meta, in expressing appreciation for a "relation outside from the rituals", it has supplied the availability, already in the reform process, to insert "small poles" for the change, through four or five amendments, I yield also of the indications of Assoporti.

The minister of the Transports has concluded the assembly and of Infrastructures, Maurizio Lupi, that the challenge for a great structural reform of the field has launch transports, that realizes in the short times a coordination between ports, to interpose to you and guarantees a real quality jump of the field. For example through a rationalization of the Harbour Authorities and the possible transformation of the same ones in Spa.
Complaining the lacked invitation the National Association Common Italians (ANCI) to the assembly of the Italian ports, Alessandro Cosimi, mayor of new Livorno and delegated ANCI harbour cities, have sent a letter to Pasqualino Monti in which he observes that "to allow with the "Italian harbour system" to complete the excessive quality jump he means to exceed the anchor and diffuse inabilities "to make system", abandoning the self-referential thrusts, beginning from the recovery of the natural relationship with the territory, not only from the institutional point of view but also of social interlocuzione". "The ports - Cosimi in the missive emphasizes - beginning from reflect the wealth of the subject presents on the territory the workers and from the citizens, the enterprises and the regional and local administrations". After to have renewed the availability of the ANCI "to work in favor of a real one I confront on the Italian ports" Cosimi restates the sorrow for the lacked involvement the local authorities as “the lacked participation such subjects to the appointment today leads back objective the work to confronts, even though important, between Harbour Authorities”.