Federagenti, the industry of the shipping is pulling ahead for the EU and must be supported from adequate fiscal policies



The shipping it is an industry pulling ahead for the European Union. It emphasizes Federagenti, the association that protects the interests of the ships that they land in the Italian ports, evidencing that the section must be therefore supported from adequate fiscal policies. The Italian Federation has remembered the results of a recent study lead from Oxford Economics on behalf of the ECSA (European Community Shipowners' Association ( on 2 April 2014), that it finds as the industry of the marine transports in Europe produces a turnover of 145 billion euros, with an occupation of 2,3 million assigned and an Internal Revenue pairs to 41 billion. The investigation explains that every million euro of contribution of the marine industry to the formation of the Gross Domestic Product one produces 1,6 induced in other asset in the European Union.

Federagenti states as the study individuals the three most important elements of reflection on the strategic importance of the marine activities. First - the Federation explains - it is relative to a trend in controtendenza: in Europe of the crisis, the mercantile fleet grows and grows all the activities induced with the effect of an always greater incidence on the GDP continental. According to element a lot in controtendenza to still see the fleet of Greece is relative to the causes of this phenomenon (Country that mainly has quickly the impact of the crisis and the communitarian rigor) in position of absolute leadership: the positive trend - Michele Pappalardo observes, president of Federagenti - substantially is provoked by fiscal policies aimed to favor of the increase and however applied with the priority aim to guarantee to the fleet and the marine industry a competitive ability on the international markets. The third element is relative to the effect flies of the marine activities, in a position to priming an only multiplying effect, and to create - Pappalardo still emphasizes - to a positive chain reaction is for how much the produced wealth concerns, is for how much it concerns the occupation. Reaction that becomes still more consisting taking in consideration the entire logistic chain. Between the 2005 and 2014 European fleets have grown of beyond 70%, and the Countries EU control beyond 40% of the world-wide fleet with an important specific weight in transport oil and in the transport container. At the beginning of this year, 2014, the fleet of the Countries members of the Union (comprising is the ships clappers European flag is those controlled by European interests, but registered under other marine registries) counted on 23.000 units for a total capacity of 430 million tons and a tonnage of 660 million.

"Given these - Pappalardo concludes - that would be commits suicide to pass under Hush. Data that would have to make to reflect also on the consequences of an indiscriminate rigor, species if place compared with the positive consequences of increase politics that can and would have produce turned out still more important. Here where the EU has not failed".