Fedarlinea, for a cabotage more hard must think to the rivisitazione of the harbour services



The Fedarlinea (Italian Association of National Cabotage), organization that previously represented the societies of navigation of the public armament today passed under private property or about to privatization, has met today in assembly to Cagliari on board of the Janas ferry of Tirrenia CIN. In occasion of the seventieth anniversary of its constitution the association has decided for the first time to organize the institutional encounter in Sardinia where the Tirrenia associates operate, Saremar and Delcomar with the objective to favor the development of a more and more productive and profitable relation with the Sardinian territorial truth towards which Fedarlinea expresses great interest and where have the intention of open an office in order to recognize the high strategic value of the island and its representations.

The today's debate, on the topic "the national Cabotage a resource for the Country", it had the scope to face social economic importance and topical subjects: from the privatizations of the regional companies to the respect of the conventions for services line publics who - second the association - "must become more and more flexible and dynamic holding in consideration also the necessary requirements and times for being able to guarantee the return of the investments by the shipowners".

Rimarcando the necessity that the relations in within EU go managed with the maximum force, Fedarlinea has announced to have determined to structure its collaboration with the Confcommercio and the Conftrasporto being started a grip synergy with the Department of Brussels. Moreover the association, remembering that for a long time it holds under monitoring the European norm on the emissions of co2, has announced of being itself actively engaged with the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, Assoporti and RINA in the management of a convention that has favorite the start of a technical table face to define the technical-administrative procedures that will on board allow the employment of the which liquified natural gas of the ferry boats as well as the bunkeraggio of the gas in the ports. "The topic of alternative fuels - it has emphasized Fedarlinea - today becomes a central element for the development of the economic plans of the shipowners, pack-saddles to think that for the construction of the new ships and "refitting" of those existing an investment of beyond 2,5 billion euros is estimated".

Moreover, second the association, "for a cabotage more hard and more new one cannot lack reflections and participations that look to the rivisitazione of the harbour services, in a logic of alignment of our Country regarding the best European practical than field, as well as the auspice of a fast implementation of the new one Slowly of the Portualità and the Logistics".

In occasion of the assembly of Fedarlinea the general manager for the Harbour Authorities and the Marine Transport of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, Enrico Maria Pujia, has observed that "never as today it is necessary to turn a greater attention to the traffics ro-ro and in particular to the connections with the islands. In such sense - he has specified - the government in the phase of new definition of the Slowly National one of the Transports and the Logistics is moving, heading to guarantee the services that assure the territorial continuity and in particular to improve the quality of the same ones".

Pujia has emphasized that "the engagement of the Ministry has allowed to start the privatization of the former Tirrenia group, in the respect of the communitarian principles, and above all has guaranteed the maintenance of the occupational levels and the marine connections with the islands. Unfortunately - it has denounced - we cannot say the same one of some regional truths, than still today not respecting the times and the agreements that the Italian government has assumed with the EU commission, are putting to risk a delicate process of privatization and with it the occupation and the territorial continuity with the islands. It is necessary - it has concluded - a greater engagement in such sense to the aim to follow through the entire process of privatization of the former Tirrenia group".

For the only administrator of Fedarlinea, Michele Ruggieri, "the shipowners must prepare themselves to face the challenges more and more current and future straits from the devices derived from a communitarian norm tightening and the requirement of innovation and development necessary in order to recover the often caused delays that our Country endures respect the other nations and from an anachronistic normative picture. The Plan of the Ports - it has found Ruggieri - is another occasion not to lose; I consider that we cannot afford to become attached itself to preconstituted models, but we must assume those which can produce a greater speed of implementation".

In occasion of the today's assembly Tirrenia Italian Company of Navigation, that it is associated to Fedarlinea, has announced a new decrease of the fleeting rates having evidenced that so they are returned to the levels of 2009. Fundamental in order to allow the price cutting - it has specified the company - it is the decrease of the cost of the fuel, than until little months ago it imposed elevated operating costs more. The decrease, than - it has specified Tirrenia CIN - regards the ordinary fleeting rates, residents and car, is not applicable on taxes and straight and it does not regard the promotions and the rates low-cost, it applies to all the lines in convention for all the year, that is Genoa-Olbia-Arbatax, the Civitavecchia-Cagliari, the Naples-Cagliari, the Palermo-Cagliari and Isole Tremiti. The relative rates are reduced also to the lines in single convention in the winter period (from October to May) Genoa-Port Torres, Civitavecchia-Olbia and Naples-Palermo, always to exclusion of taxes and rights and the advertising rates and low-cost.

Taking part to the assembly the city council member to the Public works of the Region Sardinia, Paolo Giovanni Maninchedda, it has asserted that the agency intends "to promote politics of the transports that truly guarantee the freedom of movement of the citizens. We do not want to only speak - it has specified - about rates, frequencies and routes. The liberà one of movement has a value very more wide one: draft of a right constitutionally guaranteed that therefore it goes dealt and defended through various instruments. For how much it concerns Tirrenia - it has added Maninchedda - we are in a moment in which we can and we want see again the Convention that it goes read again and deepened respect some points that are fundamental for us Sardinian. The routes for the Sardinia North could, for example, re-enter between the services mail under burdens of public service. It would moreover like to us to exit the monopoly and to start a vituous distance in order to conjugate the development of the services with the increase of the marine carriers".