In 2014 the consistency of the Italian mercantile fleet is dropped, but in the first months of the 2015 trend it is returned positive



At the end of the 2014 consistency of the Italian mercantile fleet it has been attested 17,2 million to tons of tonnage, with a decrease of the -8% respect to beyond 18,6 million tsl at the end of the year precedence. In the first months of 2015 you they have been deliveries of new units for about 300 thousand tsl beyond to purchases abroad that they have made to record a positive trend newly. It has emphasized today the Shipping president of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma), Emanuele Grimaldi, in occasion of the private session of the assembly of the Confederation held to Rome.

Grimaldi has evidenced that in fact, in the general context of crisis of the shipping world-wide, the Italian shipowning industry maintains its position in the world and Europe, with a fleet that is second in the European Union and fourth to the world between the fleets of flag and national control. "I restate - it has specified the president of Confitarma - than this is the real ranking of the world-wide fleet if account of so-called genuine the link between the flag of the ship and the nationality of the shipowner holds, a relationship that implies the grip connection with the territory and the entire marine cluster".

Stating that the ship hemorrhage has been contained thanks to the International Registry, Grimaldi it has emphasized that "for this it is fundamental that they do not come in some way modified the pillars on which rests the competitiveness of the Italian fleet, competitiveness that has allowed also in periods of crisis to continue to invest, to create occupation, to form young people for the careers of sea and earth".

"We know - it has continued Grimaldi - than the challenge of the future is identified more and more with advanced under the technological profile, more and more efficient ships and in a position to satisfying the user with services of high qualitative level: able ships to answer to the which requisitioned increasing demanded, but also to navigate with a saving of the costs of the fuel until the 10-15% ulteriorly reducing the sulfur emissions in the atmosphere. In fact, the future is already here and the ships cannot that to be green".

Grimaldi has remembered that in the course of 2014 and the first months of the 2015 Italian armament it has suffered strongly also of the dramatic situation deriving from the migratory emergency that is assuming dimensions of extraordinary capacity and that it has seen the armament to always promptly answer and immediacy to the demands for participation in order to help the migrants in difficulty, contributing to the rescue of about 42 thousand people of the put totals 170 thousand in salvo in 2014.

The assembly of Confitarma, after to have approved of the budget and the relation anniversary on year 2014, has proceeded to renews for four-year term 2015-2018 of the College of the Probiviri, that it turns out constituted by Bernardo Cirillo (president), Roberto Coccia, Carlo Lomartire and Pia Queirolo (it supply), and of that of the Revisers, that is composed of Francesco Berlingieri, Alfonso Magliulo, Alfonso Scannapieco, Oscar Raimondi (it supply) and Francesco Serao (it supply).

Grimaldi has then informed the assembly of the income in Council of Carlo Meriggi, managing director of LNG Shipping Spa (ENI group), in substitution of the dimissionario Salvatore De Gaetano.

The assembly of Confitarma has renewed moreover the auspice of a fast conclusion of the event of the two riflemen Massimiliano Latorre and Salvatore Girone, still withheld in India.