the Italian marine cluster asks the minister of the Transports to claim with force the centrality of its role



The organizations that represent the Italian marine cluster have asked unanimously the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, "to claim, with force, the centrality of its role and the title of the choices in topic of development of the portualità and national the logistic system that has in the ports its main ring". The sollicitation of trade associations Assologistica, Assiterminal, Confitarma, Federagenti, Angopi, Fedepiloti, Federimorchiatori, Assorimorchiatori, Fise-Uniport, Fedarlinea, Fedespedi, Unionepiloti and Assocostieri has come to an end of confronts on the iter of setting up of the National Plan of the Ports and the Logistics.

"From the dialogue, than Assoporti it considers essential, with all the members of a cluster that must be strengthened - has asserted the president of the Association of the Italian Ports, Pasqualino Monti - a shared conviction gushes: in order to increase the efficiency and the competitiveness of the Italian harbour system, he is determining to take part on the real nodes of the system; and this means to velocizzare the processes of infrastructuring (with a specific attention to the problem of the dredgings); to simplify the procedures; to lighten the enterprises from the differentials of cost that put up with regarding main competitors the Europeans and of the Mediterranean; to strengthen the role of community manager of the agencies of administration of the ports. The table in which these priorities can find answer - has emphasized Monti - it is to the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports and is what it is working in order to construct the National Plan of the Portualità and the Logistics".

"Just for this reason - the president of Assoporti has explained - the Harbour Authorities, the harbour terminalisti and enterprises, the shipping agents, the shipowners, the enterprises that manage coastal systems and the representations of all the technical-nautical services in the draft look with extreme worry to hypothesis, as those contained ones of bill of initiative of the Ministry of the Economic Development last circulated, that they only risk to provoke to shattering effects for the actors private publics and of the portualità and to undermine the social balances that laboriously withstand although also in a picture of been extended crisis".