Within the month it will be known which is the plan of the Italian government for the ports



. There is who considers it a engagement and who the umpteenth promise. However it is with this program that the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, has concluded in the early afternoon today States general of the ports and of the logistics that he has convened to Rome in order to introduce the operating document which drafted in order to identify the perspectives of development of the section and whose definition is established by the bill "He unblocks Italy last September".

"Now - it has concluded Wolves - it is the moment to collect yields of the job. In next the 20-25 days we must make the synthesis". The engagement-promise of the minister is to introduce the plan to the executive at the end of the month and then to subject it to the parliamentary commissions.

Wolves have specified that the plan must give an answer to six points. First: as Italy and its ports can acquire new traffics and passono to widen the market. It is then necessary to know as attracting and maintaining the investments. To such purpose the minister has stopped himself on the convocation made from the government to the summits of Costa Crociere, than next friday Wolves will meet. Topic of the reunion will be evidently the development plan of the activity of the crocieristica company in Italy after Coast has announced the transfer to Amburgo of some carried out functions currently in the headquarters of Genoa ( on 29 January 2015). Wolves have confirmed that the government intends to place the managing director of Costa Crociere, Michael Thamm, and to its collaborators some issues centralized on the activities in Italy of the company and its American group leader Carnival Corporation. The minister has specified that he will remember to the representatives of Coast the measures that the national legislation offers to the crocieristiche societies in order to facilitate their development on the Italian ground and in order to register their ships in the International Registry of which Italy he has equipped itself from some years. Alle questions of the journalists Wolves has replied that the government will not accept "offshorings that move center and job obviously, in order then to obtain advantages from our "system Country"".

The plan - it has continued Wolves - will have to answer also to the necessities of the technological development, in order to recover land and to reduce the gap competitive, to face thematic as the dredgings and the controls operated in the ports. It is then essential to establish a pact for the increase of the logistics and to estimate the investment plans of the Harbour Authorities. The minister has remembered that, with an intense and fast job, the harbour authorities have been calls to introduce their investment programs in infrastructures: "they have arrived proposed - it has emphasized - for 14,5 billion euros". Specifying that, besides the indispensable resources in order to put into effect the infrastructural plans in course, the demand for the Harbour Authorities is for ulterior investments pairs very ten billions of euro, "I ask to you - it has commented Wolves - we can go ahead so" The minister has emphasized that he is indispensable to establish of the priorities and - has found - "100 great works are not a priority".

In order to promote the development of the Italian ports it is at last necessary to characterize the modalities in order to win the challenges of the competition. "I am convinced - it has asserted to such purpose Wolves - than the opening at the market you make well".

Whoever from the today's encounter attended already of the answers has remained disappointed. These - it has assured the minister - will arrive at the end of the month when the government assumes the decisions. For the government, evidently, with States general today the phase has been concluded only of confronts with the interested parts, a debate from which the unions they have denounced of being excluded.

inforMARE it is not still clearly because the government has inserted the ports in the directory of the priorities for throws again of the national economy. Not because the ports do not need measures in order to promote their development and in order to guarantee an increase of their competitiveness, but because they would deserve to figure beyond the tenth measure of "release" of Italy in the lines guides last August introduced from the government.

It is indeed a case that the fourth voice "Unblocks Ports", preceded in the directory from the release of Yards, Municipalities and Nets and continuation from the voices Dissesto, Bureaucracy, Construction industry, Export, Bagnoli and is Energia, the only one of the list to which executive it had the or been able to add some concise indication on what to make? It is favorable that within end of month the ideas are clearer.

Bruno Bellio