Nuncios (Confcommercio): Italy must renew the harbour system



According to Confcommercio, Italy needs a new harbour system. It has declared to the newsletter "Lab Italy" the responsible field Infrastructures you transport logistics and mobility of Confcommercio-Enterprise for Italy, Tullio Nunzi, explaining that "a first step in order to promote a new national harbour system, that satisfies the requirements of the question and supports the perspectives of development of the Country, would have to be the conclusion of the iter of reform of the law on the harbour orders, stops give beyond ten years".

"It would be necessary, for more balanced and efficient system of the transports national, to beyond the slogan - it has added Nuncios - developing the so-called freeways of the sea, that is the services of arranged transport road-sea. Just for this reason - it has announced - Confcommercio, at the beginning of the next year, intends to promote a public initiative of confronts and proposal, in order to reunite around a table all the stakeholder of the section and to define a road map operating of measures to adopt".

"The ports for they nature - it has found the representative of Confcommercio - are the "doors of access" to national the logistic system. It would be necessary, therefore, to priority aim the attention to the interconnections with the terrestrial, street and railway nets, favoring fastest and fluid integration between the various modalities. Very often the railway maneuvers inside of the ports are more complex and expensive of the same services of transport to the final destination of the goods and the times of attended of the haulers to it crosses harbour penalize beyond measure the transport arranged regarding the "all-road"".

"Naturally - it has clarified Tullio Nunzi - before every thing, our Country would have to develop a clear national strategy in the field, than individuals the priorities on which taking part, inside a shared strategy, that it increases the effectiveness and the total efficiency of the system. For the definition and the performance it is essential to be able to count on a strong support by the central administration, to begin from that supplied from the strategic Head office for the Ports of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, than, instead, second some news recently learned, would risk to being sacrificed on the altar of the spending review".

Nuncios have remembered that in the recent audition near the commission Public works of the Confcommercio Senate the fast completion of the process of reform of the harbour law has wished. To judgment of the Confederation, in fact, the Italian ports are essential strategic assets for the recovery of competitiveness of the Country and the economic development and the so-called "marine cluster" inside has a meaningful role of the national economy. "Figures friendly - it has specified Nuncios - 2.6% in terms of contribution to the GDP, pairs to about 40 billion euros the year, and beyond 210 thousand occupied directed altogether employed. But inefficiencies long the logistic chain, bureaucratic and procedural slowness, not only leave on paper the role for Italy of European logistic platform, but they heavy return employee the beautiful Country from the supplied logistic services from the other European partners: in synthesis - it has concluded Nuncios - it is the Europe that appears as Italian logistic platform".