Federagenti proposes to make of the Sicily a platform for the management of the migratory flows



Today, in occasion of the development of own national assembly to Bonagia (Trapani), the National Federation Agents, Raccomandatari Marine and Mediating Marine (Federagenti) has launch the proposal to institute a Harbour Authority for the Channel of Sicily that comprises the ports of the Italian island, but also those Libyans, Tunisians and Egyptians, with the scope to make of the Sicily becomes a platform for the management of the migratory flows.

According to Federagenti, "an Authority of harbour System of the Channel of Sicily, that Core" of Augusta" goes from Trapani to Augusta with center obviously in the port "would have to set himself as "an authority that - firm remaining the express competences and professionalities firstly from the Body of the Harbour offices - Guard Costiera - she has explained the Federation - developments a rationalization in politics of the acceptance and places bases for the first time concrete series and for economic flows of return".

"The Sicily - it has found the outgoing president of Federagenti, Michele Pappalardo - has become means epicenter and earth in order to face problematic complex". "To above all imagine a co-ordinate harbour net between the ports of the south of the Sicily and some of the Africa north, with particular reference to the Tunisian and Libyan ports, in an optical of real solution of the regarding dramatic problems the immigrants and the migrants - he has added the president of the Sicilian shipping agents, Gaspare Panfalone - could supply a first concrete answer, than goals also to a coordination of the future flows of goods from and for the new centers of production that will have to be rooted from the other part of the Mediterranean".

"The Sicily - it has supported Panfalone - is a natural platform and has therefore all papers in order in order to place the bases to a solution of long period of an otherwise not gestibile problem; in this picture it could also be reached a rationalization of the instruments of governance harbour, with different merceologiche specializations for the Authority of northern harbour System (Palermo) and that oriental (Catania)".

Panfalone has emphasized that it is time to pass from the words to the facts: "by 2000 to 2013, in the attempt to reach Europe - it has evidenced - they are died more than 23.000 migrants or swallowed from the Mediterranean or victims of cold and hardships on the routes via earth. Milleseicento per year. It is time to change".