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Pappalardo (Federagenti): slogan convenient besides, for politics the ports and the shipping count or nothing little
It is as if Italy - denunciation - were a Country without coasts, ports, sea
May 23, 2014
"The ports are the element strategic in order to determine the competitiveness of a system Country. In Europe they have it by now uncovered all, with a single exception: Italy". The denunciation with "great bitterness" Michele Pappalardo, president of the Italian Federation shipping agents (Federagenti). "Our Country - Pappalardo explains - does not lose the occasion in order to confirm Country of slogan and of it proclaim, from those on the central role of the ports, to that on a lot which propagandized logistic platform on the Mediterranean. The truth is exactly contrary: it is as if Italy were a Country without coasts, ports, sea. And the confirmation has arrived in these days from two facts, apparently marginal, but substantially witnesses of an absolute insensitiveness of politics regarding an essential resource for the increase and the resumption of the country. Facts that are commented by themselves".
First - Pappalardo clarifies - it is that "within presuming spending review inside of the ministries, the only cut carried out inside a ministry of Infrastructures and Transports, all today particularly rich and which ramified field of the terrestrial transport, has hit, by chance, the marine ports and traffics. In spite of the reassurances of these months - accusation the president of Federagenti - the provision is published in the official journal that it joins last the two directions of "was" ministry of Marina Mercantile, even though all the cluster, opportunely, is pronounced on the maintenance of the Direction Ports, indeed on the potenziamento of the structures".
The second - Pappalardo continues - "ago the pair with the precedence: the choice of the summits of the ministry to desert the European strategic conference of Athens on the development of the marine traffics and on the strategies to 2030 also for the ports. Only exception between the communitarian Countries, all represented from the competent minister or its vice - Pappalardo emphasizes - Italy has participated with a head department, civil employee on the whose professionalities obviously do not exist doubts, but not certainly in a position to taking part on political choices of field to the table in which methods and constraints were being decided that they will influence the development in Europe of ports, traffics marine and logistics in next the twenty years".
"And this - the president of Federagenti concludes laconicamente - is a Country of navigators…"
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"The ports are the element strategic in order to determine the competitiveness of a system Country. In Europe they have it by now uncovered all, with a single exception: Italy". The denunciation with "great bitterness" Michele Pappalardo, president of the Italian Federation shipping agents (Federagenti). "Our Country - Pappalardo explains - does not lose the occasion in order to confirm Country of slogan and of it proclaim, from those on the central role of the ports, to that on a lot which propagandized logistic platform on the Mediterranean. The truth is exactly contrary: it is as if Italy were a Country without coasts, ports, sea. And the confirmation has arrived in these days from two facts, apparently marginal, but substantially witnesses of an absolute insensitiveness of politics regarding an essential resource for the increase and the resumption of the country. Facts that are commented by themselves".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
