New Strategic the Slowly National one of the Portualità and the Logistics indicates the goal, but not as reaching to you



Friday the Council of Ministers, on proposal of the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, has approved of in via preliminary matter National the Strategic Plan of the Portualità and Logistics (PSNPL), document that subordinate to the competent will come now Parliamentary commissions for the expression of the previewed one to seem and will return successively to the examination of the government for definitive the free way.

The announcement of the pronunciamento of the government is accompanied by documents of presentation of the dense PSNPL of a precettistica flood, but devoid of operating indications and clarity.

The presentation of the government leaves from the rhetorical of almost the 8,000 kilometers of Italian coastal line, it lasts to die in spite of any operator of national the logistic-harbour system knows very well that the possibilities of development of a harbour system, any are the extension of the coast that accommodates it, are conditioned by its position regarding the markets that feed and from which it is fed and above all by the consistency and dynamicity of these markets.

The documents of the government observe moreover that "the port of Rotterdam alone generates 2.1% of the GDP of the Low Countries", relief that for a long time is on the mouth of homegrown politicians whom more or less implicitly and superficialally they reproach that we, with ours 8,000 kilometers, would have to be able to make 15-20 more times of the Dutch.

The governmental documents denounce also "poor quality of harbour infrastructures: Italy - it is evidenced - is to 55° the world-wide place for the quality of harbour infrastructures after Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, Morocco, Croatia". But - for being precise - it is also behind of Namibia, Oman, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Switzerland, Lithuania, Uruguay and El Salvador, just for the sake of to cite other nations classified before Italy in the most recent - and always rough - world-wide ranking which drafted from the Economic World Forum to which the government it makes reference ( on 5 September 2014).

But what more it afflicts it is that in the documentation supplied from the government indications lack, if not completely generic, on that it is necessary to make in order to achieve the objectives of increase of the benefits that the logistic-harbour field brings the entire national economy.

The government explains to have delineated an integrated strategy, "with actions to complete he is in the ports is on their accessibility - from sea and earth - to the aim to upgrade the role of Italy in the Mediterranean and the international exchanges". "Between the instruments characterized for the definition of a System effective Sea and for the increment of the traffics of the goods and navigation of passengers - the executive specifies - there are numerous actions for the administrative simplification, the efficiency of the controls and the procedures of clearance, the promotion of the intermodalità and the connections of last mile, the attraction of new investments for the modernization of harbour infrastructures. Draft - the government emphasizes - of objectives to reach also by means of a greater national coordination and a rationalization of the marine policies".

And still: "the Plan previews, therefore, the definition of an institutional and normative distance that allows to correspond to the communitarian institutions in matter of review of politics of the Trans-European nets of Transport, in order to support infrastructural projects of common interest in the field, being valued the role of Italy in the construction of a euro-Mediterranean net of transport and favoring the recovery of the commercial traffics between Europe and East".

The specific government who "National the Strategic Plan of the Logistics and of the Portualità goes to put into effect previewed how much from I decree Unblocks Italy of the 2014 that he previews, for the first time give beyond twenty years, a total reform of the entire System Sea: "to improve the competitiveness of the harbour and logistic system, to facilitate the increase of the traffics of the goods and the people and the promotion of the intermodalità" also through "the rationalization, I rearrange and the amalgamation of the existing harbour Authorities"".

The government clarifies that "the Plan is organized for ten objectives and ten sets in action". Here the directory: "Simplification and simplification: measures for the velocizzazione of the procedures; Competitiveness: competition, transparency, top quality of the services; Accessibility: better connections of the marine and terrestrial transports; Logistic integration and enterprises: integration of the logistic system and the manifacturing activities of the territory; Infrastructures: potenziamento of infrastructures of the ports and the terrestrial connections; Innovation: measures for research purposes, the formation, the development and the technological innovation; Sustainability: measures for energy efficiency and the atmosphere; Certainty of the resources: measures for the management and the programmabilità of the investments in the ports in the long term; National coordination: coordination and central promotion; New governance: to adapt the governance to the new role of the Italian portualità".

The government remembers that in topic of bureaucratic simplification and competitiveness, "in order to increase to the competitiveness of the System Sea and to attract the operators already the job is begun for: times more breviums for import/export and the Only Door in head to the Agency of Customs, for operators cost more simpler low, procedures for velocizzare all in particular the works escavi and dredgings, less bureaucracy in order to activate the investments and regulation of the concessions, realization of the digital logistic chain for the interoperability of the systems, more transparency, quality controls strengthened on the goods imported".

For how much it concerns to "infrastructural investments, accessibility, integration", the document lists: "Last mile: to reduce throttlings and to improve accessibility side earth (binary terminals/in port, improvement street connections); Technological innovation: e-port, intelligent systems as the Port Community System (PCS) and all the resources in order to guarantee the logistic digital row, in optical of safety and velocizzazione; Services for the passengers: intermodal tourism, accompanied travellers door to door and development of the business environment.; Intermodalità for the productive field: efficient harbour services serving for all the surrounding productive woven one with national and international importance, railway Fast Corridor, preferred lanes for the goods on the train; Infrastructural investments: recovery and modernization of existing infrastructures, investments in escavi and extraordinary maintenance, fleeting construction of new works of protection, docks, backdrops, terminals and railway goods, connections and street insides, systems of bunkeraggio; Development of the Freeways of the Sea".

About the economic resources for the field, the document speaks about "sure resources and measures ad hoc", specifying that "the Plan puts to system the resources available for the marine portualità and transports, between which: about 700 million destined from the EU to the Regions of Southern Italy for harbour infrastructures (PON and POR, bottom FESR), 85 million already allocated from the government for investments in the Italian ports in 2015, more than allocated 600 million the year from the government for the transport via ship, besides the existence of the projects financed already cited and looks to financings of the European Investment Bank legacies to the Flat Juncker. In order to assure the involvement of all the operators of the System Sea - the executive specifies moreover - will be estimated important initiatives of promotion: a National Bottom for the Greenports, measures for energy efficiency in the naval transport, programs of high formation on the issues of the blue economy, measures for the adoption of National the Logistic Platform, greater involvement of the private investments”.

Then it is arrived to the topic on which for a long time it is centralized and the argument is extended: the amalgamation of some Italian Harbour Authorities. “The governance - the government assures - is rethought in incisive and sinergico way in order to earn more competitiveness, passing: from the current system with insufficient national coordination, to a role of coordination with the only Head office for Ports and Logistics of the Mit; from 336 total members in the Harbour Committees to about 70 members in the new Committees of management; from 113 administrative procedures in port and 23 subjects responsible publics of the controls in every port to an Only Door of the Controls in head to the Agency of Customs, while numerous other ordinary administrative procedures will be in head to an Only Administrative Door; from 24 Harbour Authorities to Authority of Harbour Systems”.

In this the synthesis documents supply some signal in more about that it will make or that it would have to be made. But they are labili traces that must interpret. The abolition of current Harbour Committees, organs of the Harbour Authorities composed by the representatives of the marine and harbour authorities, the local institutions, the marine-harbour operators and the unions would seem proposal, for being replaced from Committees of management, who knows if still in the within of the Harbour Authorities or of the Authorities of Harbour Systems.

But the remainder is still more indecipherable. They give beyond a year and means the Italian harbour community discuss about the ventilated reduction of the number of the Harbour Authorities. Still it is today not given to know if there will be a reduction of the number, if they will change the competences of the Harbour Authorities and how many will be the new Authorities of Harbour Systems.

What it seems to perceive (because us must be entrusted to the feelings) that not there will be some drastic one and perhaps not even is not limited reduction of the number of Harbour Authorities. Rather the new agencies will be constituted of system, with a role of coordination regarding the current authorities.

In response to the first indiscretions (feelings) on the new system of governance of the ports, the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports in fact has hurried to specify that in new Strategic the Slowly National one of the Portualità and the Logistics some amalgamation of Harbour Authorities is not defined.

It is favorable that the version of the new one Slowly that will be sent to the Parliamentary commissions at least this specifies it. They are previewed of the reductions, the amalgamations or only the creation of new agencies? So, for knowledge.

There is who has pointed out us preventively that it will be the next law on the ports to define these issues. If it is so, rassegnamoci. The game still is not begun. To the face of the urgent provisions for I throw again of the competitiveness of the Italian economic system announced from the government a year makes.

Bruno Bellio