Contrary Angopi, Assorimorchiatori, Confitarma, Fedepiloti and Federimorchiatori to the abolition of the Head office for the ports



The National Association Groups Ormeggiatori and Barcaioli Italian Ports (Angopi), the Italian Association Shipping of Tugs (Assorimorchiatori), the Confederation Shipping Italian (Confitarma), the Italian Federation of the Pilots of the Ports (Fedepiloti), the Italian Federation Shipping of Tugs (Federimorchiatori) and the National Federation of the Enterprises of Peach (Federpesca) have sent a letter to the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, in which the precious function carried out from the Head office for the ports of the ministry is evidenced of which it is assumed instead the abolition.

Writing to the minister to have "learned that it is about to definition near its offices the text of Regolamento face to giving to practice application to the enforced dispositions in matter of review of the public expense" and that "between the measures introduced would be also the abolition of the Head office for the ports, with the attribution of the relative competences subdivided between the Head office dams and water infrastructures and the Head office marine transport and for internal water ways", the six associations explain that, "without wanting to question the purposes pursued from the recalled dispositions of law", they state but "as the phenomenon is confirmed already in existence from various years that have carried to a progressive weakening of the political importance of our field in spite of the same one represents an elevated percentage of GDP (2.6%) and records occupational levels of all respect (477,000 assigned)".

"Such ascertainment - Angopi, Assorimorchiatori, Confitarma, Fedepiloti and Federimorchiatori find - appears still more founded if it is thought that emanating the Regulations would confirm, for example, the Head office relation and contracts publics, whose competences turn out to all purposes and effects emptied for effect of the recent constitution of the Authority of the Transports and would maintain separated to the Head offices motorization and today more easy riaccorpabili united street safety a time and therefore. For how much it concerns the ports - the six associations observe - the riattribuzione of the tasks until now carried out from the Head office for the ports would involve a concrete risk to disperse the professionalities created during these years in a sure strategic within for the economy of the Country, with the obvious consequence to determine the following criticalities: to weaken the representation of the interests of field in all the European and international institutional centers; to prejudice the profitable talk and the effective collaboration between the organs of the ministry and the General Command of the Body of the Harbour offices, revealed instruments essential, over the past few decades, in order to guarantee is the safety that the efficiency of the national ports".

"Moreover - they continue in the letter Angopi, Assorimorchiatori, Confitarma, Fedepiloti, Federimorchiatori - the next Italian presidency of the European Union, with on the agenda regarding topics the harbour issues, would have to suggest to confirm the precious function carried out from the Head office for the ports, than with ability and competence follows from years the field.
Processes of restructure of the public car that impattano in important measure would have, to warning of writing, to be object of constructive I confront with the representations of the operators of the field".

Angopi, Assorimorchiatori, Confitarma, Fedepiloti, Federimorchiatori ask therefore an participation for minister Lupi "face to revisit emanating the Regulations and - they specify - they remain on hand in order to characterize solutions that can conjugate the interest to the restructure of the public expense with the protection of an economic field, as that harbour one, having an important weight so on the economy of the system Country".

With respect to the planned reorganization of the organization of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, yesterday IX the Commission (Transports, Posts and Telecommunications) of the Chamber of Deputies has approved of an agenda introduced from the deputies of the Party Democratic Michele Pompeo Meta, Mario Tullo and Alberto Pagani whom the government engages "to maintain an organization of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports coherent with the attribution of the resources previewed in the bill budgetary of the State and, in any case, not to adopt measures that would involve the disarticulation and the spacchettamento of the structures and the relative competences to the marine-harbour field and the abolition of Head office of the ports".