the crisis of the Italian economy cure with the export and growing the competitiveness of the marine-harbour field



the detail economic moment that is living Italy demands to the national enterprises a strong thrust to the export and to the internationalization of produced and the services and this it involves the urgent necessity of the potenziamento and of I throw again of the competitiveness of the Italian marine field, overhead the infrastructures. It emphasizes Primo Rapporto Annuale "Italian Maritime Economy. New broken for the increase" introduced today to Naples, in a convention near the center of the Bank of Naples, from SRM (Studies Searches Southern Italy), center studies connected to the Intesa Sanpaolo Group. I yield of the activity of monitoring of the new Permanent Observatory on the Economy of the Marine Transports and of the Logistics of SRM, that this year is inaugurated, the Relationship wants to give a contribution to the understanding of the complex and articulated world of the economy of the marine transports and the logistics, signaling the new broken that Italy would have to follow in order to become a more competitive Country, with a Southern Italy protagonist. The data and the analyses elaborated from Centro Studi are illustrated by Massimo Deandreis, general manager of SRM, and from Alessandro Panaro, in charge of the Observatory Maritime Economy, that it has deepened the topics of the great alliances and the competitiveness of infrastructures. Sergio Prete, Assoporti vice president, have spoken about the role of the ports for the increase of the Country.

"With this job - the president of SRM has explained, Paolo Scudieri - we inaugurate our new permanent Observatory on the Economy of the Marine Transports and the Logistics. Strategic fields for the future of our Country and the Southern Italy and on which we must be more competitive. The ports of the Europe North, so like those of the side South of the Mediterranean, have invested a lot in the infrastructural improvement and today they have earned important positions for the benefit of their economies. Italy what attends to comprise that Southern Italy has a natural logistic vocation that could be better taken advantage of for the benefit of all the Country? We believe that also with deepening intense activities as this can be given a serious contribution to bring back this topic to the center of the political agenda".

With respect to the requirement of the national companies to head for the development of the exports and the internationalization of the produced ones, the specific Relationship of SRM that "to promote the export it does not want to only say to push the accelerator on the incentives to the investments; to export and to return a system international - the document specifies - want to say also to even give to the companies a solid logistic support that can give to rapidity and efficiency in making to travel the goods, also subjecting them to working cycles in travel, let alone to assure the accomplishment of the numerous bureaucratic and administrative implementations that are connected to the crosswalk from a Country to the other".

"the world - the Relationship continues - is in front of to a change of scene, for the truth already announced, a change that sees more and more large ships that they already berth in ports like Southampton, Amburgo, Pireo, Tanger Med and that instead in the Italian ports reduced ships are replaced by services feeder (more), that involves the less possibility than development, unless international relations, less goods and also less services for the enterprises. It always goes also advancing the great business of the "terminalisti" to the search of harbour spaces, always to perfect the mechanisms of logistic innovation and to stipulate agreements with the large ones carrier in order to assault with great joint venture the more appetizing Countries from the productive point of view; Morocco teaches when it decides to invest 560 billion in its portualità; nevertheless Brazil and Turkey with investment plans that show full conscience of the acquaintance of the phenomena that are happening, without to cite the by now mature Rotterdam, Amburgo, Bremen, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Marseilles. Commercial ours competitor in short".

"To internationalize a system - the Relationship of SRM emphasizes - wants to say to guarantee to the same system that infrastructural armor that gives to the enterprises the certainty of the times and the assurance to find in the Country of outlet a series of services of great quality, between these services connected to the sea. Mediterranean Al".

With respect to I throw again of the competitiveness of the Italian marine field, the Relationship observes that "Italy has a series of ports that, in spite of a norm (than opportunely gave optimal results) that it goes back ago to twenty years, and to a programming of the harbour and marine development never (or partially) perhaps happened for several causes, succeeds not to yield. But "not to yield" - the Relationship emphasizes - not enough, it is necessary to be left over and to become and this competitive can be made acting on some levers that not necessarily go to insist on the finance. The first is that to assure to the system a programming continuity. To define the strategic ports (that it does not want to say to eliminate of others) and to define the plans for the ports hub and the polifunzionali ports, and with the definition of the strategy obviously also an adapted financial planning: if the resources are little it is still necessary more to aim to I use that it would have to border on the perfection in terms of return of the investment".

"Italy - the Relationship states - has also logistic excellence that would need a great bureaucratic simplification and also often of having clearly a booklet of the instructions on how many and which controls our goods must have and how many are the days necessary in order to do so as that the goods can travel without to run aground".

"To be twentieth in classifies of the logistic performances behind all the other great European Countries - the general manager of SRM has rimarcato, Massimo Deandreis - means to be more expensive and to have greater times in the operations of shunting and clearance. If to this we add that a third party of all the commercial interchange Italian part via ship is understood well that this gap falls back directly on the competitiveness of the Italian enterprises. To improve the efficiency of the logistic-harbour system would have to be a natural priority for a Country like Italy. It is urgent to recover the lost time and to head at this field because it can indeed become they fly of that economic resumption much wait in Southern Italy and Italy".

"Remains - the Relationship of SRM remembers moreover - naval gigantism and also a reflection is here from making; if the P3 Network (the new alliance tightened from the first three companies of the field of line, Maersk, MSC and CMA CGM, ndr) has characterized five Italian ports to climb is sure that there will be a reason, had evidently to the necessity to characterize of the destinations that can at least offer in perspective, to the ships a safe haven. And we remember that between these ports there are, as well as Genoa, Trieste and La Spezia also Naples and Gioia Tauro; the hope is that this that wishes the P3 can become a stimulus for our ports. In all this Southern Italy with its marine 63% of export and its 50% of the enlivened Italian traffic cannot not speak his mind, this area by now is acclarato has vital human (is this is a winning point) marine, infrastructures and enterprises and is from that it is necessary to begin".
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"- the Relationship concludes - but the problem financial does not exist. Deep the communitarian ones can sure represent an energy reserve in order to make to share the system, to these can join the Connecting Europe and the investments attended on TRY, but that then it must be been able to compete by themselves it is an unavoidable necessity".

"the search of SRM and the convention today - the president of the Bank of Naples has commented, Maurizio Barracco - is a invitation not to forget that we are a marine Country. It says the history and it says the economy to it. 19% of international the marine traffic pass in the Mediterranean and are in constant increase from 2005. And this increase has happened in spite of the economic crisis in Europe and the political instability in the side South of the Mediterranean, to confirmation of the fact that the Mediterranean is more and more central in the total economy".

the general manager of the Franco Gallia, Bank of Naples, has remembered that "from the marine field, as they demonstrate also the numbers of the search, they gush variegated and complex operations financial institutions. The bank therefore - it has found - plays a role key: it not only can carry out the role of credit partner but it must also place side by side the enterprise in the understanding of the requirements and finding with the solutions. In a moment as this is important to be near the companies and to supply they it necessary assistance and advising. The Bank of Naples, that it is historically the bank of reference of the economy of Southern Italy, graces also to the variety of services and producing and to the various competences of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, can offer produced bank qualified and specific professionalities for being of useful support to the world of the marine operators”.