Pappalardo (Federagenti): "constantly we are worried when politics put the hands on the management of our ports"



If the president of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), Pasqualino Monti, and the president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, in the course of the convention held this morning to Lerici ( on 9 June 2014), they have restated the importance of national the harbour and logistic system for the resumption of the Italian economy, importance - it has replied during the encounter the undersecretary to the Economy, Giovanni Legnini - of which the government he is totally aware, the president of Federagenti, Michele Pappalardo, has expressed fear for the phase of stall in which it seems to be itself got bogged down the harbour reform: "constantly we are worried - Pappalardo has explained - when politics put the hands on the management of our ports and on a field that in these years has produced to wealth and occupation". Moreover the president of Federagenti has denounced the most insufficient interest of the central authorities regarding this field having remembered as this insensitiveness has found confirmation in the decision to reduce to single competent directions of the ministry on the marine and harbour field, when four competent directions on the terrestrial transports inexplicably survive to any spending review. "We need - it has added Pappalardo - of interlocutors who perhaps speak our language and would be the case to copy how much other countries are making, for example rethinking to the necessity of a ministry of the sea or at least to an only subject of reference".

About an only subject of reference the general manager of Customs has spoken also, Giuseppe Peleggi, that he has proposed the creation of an only administrative door for the enterprises and the productive companies, than - on the falsariga than he is happening with the customs door only - accorpi all the controls of administrative type which the companies are subordinates, reducing therefore the bureaucratic burdens and also the corruption risks.

Besides Pappalardo, the strong perplexities of the entrepreneurial world about the possibilities to see effectively realized a law of reform of the harbour field that not risks to be pejorative regarding the existing are evidenced by Marco Simonetti, vice-president marine terminals of Contship Italy.

To conclusion of the Marco Filippi work, group leader PD in Commission Public works and communications of the Senate, has turned an appeal to the government to however introducing a text, "also migliorabile", of reform, emphasizing as a stop would turn out "esiziale" for the field.