Pasqualino Monti confirmed to the presidency of Assoporti



Today to Rome the assembly of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) has confirmed to the Pasqualino Monti presidency, president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia. A choice completed unanimously from the totality of the presidents who have participated to the reunion, necessarily specifies a note of the association since the presidents of the harbour authorities of Genoa and Ravenna, Luigi Merlo and Galliano Di Marco, have announced the escape of the respective agencies from the association.

In occasion of its Monti reaffirmation it has emphasized as from the today's one sitting of the national portualità is gushed also three important indications with respect to the strategies that they will be adopted by Assoporti and its presidency. "The first - it has explained - is relative to the authority of the role of Assoporti, only "common house" of the ports and the subjects publics, firstly the harbour Authorities, than they manage them. Subjects that today more than ever, as emerged from the assembly - it has evidenced - they have the institutional duty to form an united front in order to favor I throw again of the field and the elimination of all those factors that of it limit already today the competitiveness on the international market of the marine traffics and the logistics. In so far as, the divergences of opinion and the contrasts - according to Monti - must, in the interest of the Country, to find synthesis and solution inside Assoporti".

"The second indication - it has continued the president of the association - is relative to the objectives that Assoporti is set: first of all that to exercise a pressure on government and Parliament so that they are put into effect, in the tightest times, measures of reform of the field not finalized to a spending review, that it risks to being more appearing that substantial, but to the construction of a new credibility (made of efficiency and reliability) of the Italian ports on the chessboards of the world-wide interchange and of a market of the more and more selective logistics".

"The third indication - Monti has asserted - regards a concentrated effort so that, in a so critical moment for the Country, the several development plans and the industrial plans of the several ports they find already in Assoporti, and therefore in confronts with the government and the Parliament, the instruments of selection and chosen of priority asserting also in this absolutely priority field as the supreme interest of the Country".

"I cannot - it has concluded Pasqualino Monti - than to restate the pride for the confidence that is attributed me by the presidents of the greater Italian ports. The charge of president of Assoporti today involves the assumption of responsibilities that do not have precedence in the history of the Italian portualità. In front of we there are also unpopular choices that not always will be shared by the several territories. But the State has entrusted we, presidents of Harbour Authorities, the management of precious assets for the Country and just today, to beyond the contradictions and of the incomprehensions, we are called all to a effort coeso, incompatible with independent choices of approach to these thematic ones and with chosen of contrast that creed and I hope will be able, in a "Assoporti new", being soon old, putting in front to the problematic ones and the local balances, the sovereign interest of the Country".