Confitarma defends the normative system of the International Registry



The Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) is lined up to defense of the International Registry, that it is instituted in 1998 in order to enroll ships to you used after international commercial traffics after for a long time was invoked by the anxious Italian shipowners to obtain parity of normative conditions, and therefore of competitiveness, regarding the colleagues of other European nations. Objective that - according to the same Italian shipowners - exactly is achieved with the law n. 30 on February 27, 1998 and with the next normative adaptations.

Positive results that now the Italian shipowning Confederation considers necessary not to neutralize bringing modifications to the normative system of the International Registry that would denature it. Today to Rome, in its relation to the assembly of Confitarma that we publish in the address book "Forum of the Shipping and the Logistics", the Shipping president of the Italian Confederation, Emanuele Grimaldi, have emphasized as the International Registry is "still the pillar of effective and expansive marine politics. Today - it has explained - the Italian mercantile fleet is more than doubled regarding the end of years ‘90 and, in spite of the reductions recorded during the last few years of long crisis, is still pairs to about 17 million tons of tonnage. In the same period, also the marine occupation is increased of 59%, given still more important if it is thought that the occupied ones on a national level are increased only of 5%. By the beginning of the crisis of the 2008 today, marine occupation it is increased of 12.7% while the occupation in national within is diminished of 3.5%".

"In the years - Grimaldi has remembered - the International Registry is improved, with measures that have allowed to equiparare the operating costs of the Italian ships to those of main competitor the foreign ones, also in the connections of cabotage of long distance and in the cruises". Between these measures the president of the Confitarma has evidenced that of the tonnage tax: "it is an instrument adopted from all the main European countries - from North to South (from the United Kingdom to Malta) and from East to the West (from Finland to Portugal) - than now the Commission asks us to modify returning it, as in the other Member States, applicable in egual measure to all the ships of European flag. This - it has specified - is provoking some fear for the occupation of marine Italians, but I consider that these worries are excessive. This that really we consider necessary, pain the loss of the many reached positive results - but it has found Grimaldi - is on one side to safeguard integrity of the International Registry and the other to take part with energy to the aims of a wide and realizes normative simplification".

To such purpose, specifying that in I confront with the other European flags the Italian ships have an additional cost deriving from farraginose procedures that the year for ship can exceed the 100,000 dollars, have asked to value the role of the administration dedicated to problematic the marine ones: "the system of the rules - Grimaldi has asserted - must be simple and clear, in order to allow of with the administration an easy application and the enterprises to compete effectively to international level. The choice of the Country of recording of a ship is based in the first place on the costs of the flag. Unfortunately the greater costs of that Italian are today from chargeing to the normative stratification, that it often returns the activity of the many administrations ineffective calls to take care of our field".

In its Grimaldi participation it has been stopped among other things on the humanitarian crisis of the Mediterranean, remembering that in the within of the missions Mare Nostrum and Triton the mercantile ships have answered to the participation calls in order to help the migrants in difficulty or with than 1.300 travels life threatening more diverted, contributing to the rescue of beyond 42.000 people, a quarter of the 166,000 migrants drawn in salvo in 2014, and of others 15,200 in the first eight months of 2015. The Italian armament is involved, with almost 270 participations in the operations Search & Rescue between January 2014 and september 2015. "With obvious difficulties and risks it has rimarcato - crews and ships, although inadequate equipments of edge to the great number of castaways, have answered promptly to the demand to save lives in danger".

Moreover the president of Confitarma has spoken about thematic the environmental ones restating that the shipping he is for a long time making its part in order to reduce the impact of its activity on the atmosphere, in particular in the last decade, containing the emissions of co2: "in fact - it has observed - although the increase of the marine commerce and in spite of the ships transports 90% of the tons world-wide miles, from 2007, the shipping has reduced of beyond 10% the emissions co2, than now they represent alone 2.2% of the world-wide total". "With larger, motor ships better and a different management of the speed - it has added Grimaldi - the shipping it previews that the reduction of co2 will be pairs to 50% within 2050, when the entire world-wide fleet is composed from super fuel-efficient ship and it is still diffused more I use it than combustible alternative". Grimaldi however has manifested worry not only for the increasing cost for the necessary investments to the adaptation to the international norms, but also for the uncertainty due to a proliferation of international, European, national and regional rules that often are overlapped and been different according to the geographic areas and of difficult application.

To the assembly the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports is taken part, Graziano Delrio, that he has evidenced the necessity to make system in order to develop national the logistic system with the scope to make of Italy "the door of the South Europe". "With the other Countries - it has explained - we have a competition problem because they make system. The problem of the system-sea is a problem of the cities on the sea, that they are many, but of the system Country and has therefore need to take it very seriously".

Delrio has then cited the action of the government for the field, with the Plan for the logistics and the portualità, with the relative ones decrees implementing in arrival and the measures in support of the "arranged marine one", as the "Marebonus", activated this year for the infrastructural emergencies, and the attention to the economy of the "extra sea". With respect to the state of performance of national the strategic Plan of the Logistics and the Portualità, the minister has assured that "it is ready first I decree implementing of the reform of the ports, relative to the governance. The approval of the general plan on the ports - it has found Delrio - has been an ahead important step, now is preparing all the application measures. The delegated decree on the governance is ready and now it is to the attention of the minister of Public Administration, Marianna Madia".

Delrio has emphasized moreover that the ministry is getting ahead for interdepartmental way or administrative a series of other measures, as decrees for the escavi and the dredgings and the regulations for the Unico Doganale Door and the Unico Amministrativo Door, so as the connections of the Last Mile between railway and street infrastructures with the ports, through the contracts Anas and Rfi.

After the assembly president of the Commission Navigazione to Corto Raggio di Confitarma, Roberto Martinoli, has introduced two studies through which - he has explained - "we have intentional to make to emerge the weight and the importance of a field, what we could define the "Short National Sea", that employs about 20.000 assigned directed, he generates a turnover almost five billions of euro and has a direct cost and indirect inferior regarding the street and railway transport. The marine Freeways of the Sea and the other services - it has remembered - move every year in Italy about 40 million passengers and offer to every day a hold of beyond 120.000 linear meters, equivalents to 800 kilometers of "floating roads" that they join to the 6,700 kilometers of the Italian highway net. Numbers, these, that they place Italy to according to place between the Countries of the European Union for tons of goods enlivened by the national ports and to first for number of passengers transported". "A complex, which variegated and important industry - it has emphasized Martinoli - but, paradoxicalally little known and analyzed own in the Country the whose territory, with its ships and its men, strongly contributes to connect, to join and to grow every day".

The study on the associate-economic importance of the services of marine transport short beam, goods and passengers in Italy, realized in-house from the structure of Confitarma, is illustrated by Oliviero Baccelli of the University Bites of Milan. From the document it emerges that, in spite of the economic crisis of the last years that has carried to a national unemployment pairs to 13% at the beginning of 2014, the trend of the marine occupation is completely anticyclical: in fact, on board of the ships which examined from the study that in great part turns out enrolled in the International Registry, the number of the occupied ones is increased in last the three years of 4.7%.

Moreover they are about 20 thousand the attache's on board and to earth of the analyzed section, beyond 8.000 of which occupied on board of the 156 ships ro-ro goods and mixed and little more than 2.000 on the 93 fast means, to which they go added beyond 4.500 marine ones of the other analyzed sections (cisterniero, bunkeraggio, offshore, harbor tug). The multiplier of the occupation, directed and indirect, for every unit of additional occupation, turns out pairs to 2,02. An industry, that of the “short sea national one”, that it produces to a direct turnover almost five billions of euro, whose increment of every additional unit produces a multiplying effect of 2,53 included the induced one.

Flavio Marangon of Of Appolonia has illustrated the second relative study to the environmental impact compared of navigation short beam, that he compares the indirect labor costs and environmental of the marine transport, on four lines of freeways of the sea, with those of the concurrent modalities of transport: rubber and iron. The study, realized gives Of Appolonia on assignment of the Commission Navigation to Corto Raggio di Confitarma, analyzes the direct costs and indirect of the marine, highway and railway transport on three drafts: tirrenica long route, tirrenica short route and international route. The cost analysis of transport - that it considers factors as incidentalità, noise, congestion, times of distance, emissions and shipping charges - it has evidenced as in economic terms for the collectivity, the marine modality is the means of transport that altogether has a direct cost and indirect inferior on all the types of connection analyzed to prescind from the type of used ship, is it a fleeting ferry all-mere us or compound and goods. To parity of goods and transported passengers, the greater total costs deriving from I use it of the road regarding the marine modality has turned out to to be included among 70% and 220%, while the railroad has greater costs of the ship with values comprised between 8% and 60%. It achieves some that the marine modality remains the solution of better transport in terms of social and environmental benefits for the collectivity.