the assembly of Assoporti approves of six points unanimously for throws again of the ports



Yesterday the assembly of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) has approved of unanimously the strategic lines for the development of the national portualità that represent the contribution of the association of the Italian Harbour Authorities to the Parliament and the government and that they are articulated along six guiding main ones, "for other - it has specified Assoporti - in coherence with the indications in matter of Core ports and Core Networks supplied from the European Union".

The association has explained that, "aware of the importance of forms of collaboration and functional aggregation, also of European transboundary type, between the existing Harbour Authorities, it has characterized in integration between the marine member and that earthling of the logistics and in the coordination between powers publics and activity of the private ones, the keys of time in order to face the impact with the great concentrations of the marine transport".

Before the six main guiding ones launched from the assembly of Assoporti previews to privilege for the new infrastructures "those which they guarantee profit and involvement of private investor also through a sburocratizzazione of the iter of approval of the projects".

The second one "concerns on the system governance and therefore on the constitution on initiative of the Harbour Authorities, in collaboration with the Regions, of harbour and logistic systems that coordinate the entire logistic chain. The harbour and logistic Authorities of corridor - it has specified the association - will have competence, on the harbour town development plans and the infrastructural choices of system, on the coordination of the marketing policies and on the promotion of street and railway infrastructures. The harbour and logistic system is coordination organism therefore (yields of protocols of understanding and agreements of program) called to manage an integrated Plan logistic to make to approve of the Ministry of Transportation. Slowly that fixed objectives of traffic, services to distribute, infrastructural participations, infrastructures of connection port-hinterland, commercial promotion, promotion of multimodali projects".

The third director previews "the elimination, in the enforced text of the art. 18-second of law 84 of 1994, of the limit of 90 million euros annual of the quota the VAT due on the import of the goods introduced in the national territory for through of every port". Such article on the "Autonomy financial institution of the Harbour Authorities and financing of the realization of works in the ports" establishes in fact that, "to the aim to facilitate the realization of the works previewed in the respective harbour town development plans and in the triennial operations plans and for the potenziamento of the infrastructural net and the services in the ports and the street and railway connections in the necessary ports and investments to the mass in safety, the maintenance and the structural requalification of the harbour withins, it is instituted, in the state of forecast of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, a bottom for the financing of the participations of adaptation of the ports fed on a yearly basis, in measure pairs to 1% of the VAT due on the import of the goods introduced in the national territory for through of every port, in the limit of 90 million euros annual". The bottom "is shared with decrees of the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports together with the minister of the Economy and Finances, felt permanent Conferenza for the relationships between the State, the E regions the independent Provinces of Trento and Bolzano, attributing to every port 80% of the quota the VAT due on the introduced import of the goods in the national territory for its through and sharing remaining the twenty percent between the ports, with perequative purposes, holding also account of the forecasts of the respective triennial operations plans and harbour town development plans". The third director of Assoporti directly previews instead "the attribution to the Harbour Authorities of the percentage of the VAT due on the introduced imports of the goods in the national territory for through of the ports, rideterminando the division criteria according to indicators of relative performances; the attribution to each Harbour Authority of the faculty to decreasing self-determine (in increase or) the measure: of the harbour tax on the cargo and disembarked in the ports administered from that Harbour Authority, of the anchor duty on the ships, the harbor dues".

The fourth director of the Association of the Italian Ports previews an administrative autonomy for Harbour Authorities "that - it has clarified Assoporti - must be "located in the condition for operating as enterprises, with independent ability to direction and government in port and for that regards the connections of net and the logistics". Not weighing on the budget of the State, but generating through the jettison at sea resources, the Harbour Authorities "cannot be subjected to relative constraints to the public expense, the cost and the legal and economic treatment of the staff"".

The fifth director concerns on the technical-nautical services, for which "the attribution to each Harbour Authority of the tariff power is proposed on the same services, on the base of a subdivision of competences that it previews to reserve: to the Marine Authority the exclusive competence in the fixation of the standards of safety, the equipments technical infrastructural demands let alone of the characteristics of means and the employed staff; to the Marine Authority and the Harbour Authority the competence shared in the organization of the services; to the Harbour Authority the competence in the fixation of the rates on the base of criteria and national mechanisms uniforms".

The last director regards the involvement of the Italian productive enterprises in the logistic chain and the increase of the Italian logistic operators, "involvement that - according to Assoporti - will have to be favorite with a system of incentives".

"They are much satisfying - the president of Assoporti has declared, Pasqualino Monti - is of the fact that the association has faced with great courage the important topic of the development in the long term of the Italian harbour system, he is of the approval unanimously also by the presidents of the ports of Trieste (Marina Monassi), Venice (Paolo Costa) and Livorno (Giuliano Gallanti) that recently they had introduced a document from which is gushed in combination the debate on a so important topic for the future of the ports".