Confitarma, last year the Italian fleet has recorded a contraction of the -3%, but in the first months of the 2016 trend it is positive



Today to Rome the private session of the assembly of the Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) has approved of the budget and the relation anniversary for the year 2015 that is introduced by president Emanuele Grimaldi coadiuvato from the presidents of the confederal Commission: Nicola Coccia (Finance and Right of Enterprise), Angel D'Amato (Oceanic Navigation), Roberto Martinoli (Navigation Short beam), Mario Mattioli (Education), Stefano Messina (human Resources and Industrial relations), let alone Massimo De Domenico (vice president technical Management ships), Gianpaolo Polichetti, (vice president Ports and Infrastructures) and Andrea Garolla of Bard, Shipping Young president of the Group, that they have deepened the topics of they specific competence.

In occasion of the Grimaldi reunion it has announced that, in consideration of the fact that the atmosphere is by now a more and more determining factor for the activity of the shipping, has the intention of institute a working group ad hoc who, presided by councilman Lorenzo Matacena, will be dedicated to such thematic ones under the aspect is technician who political, in sight of the creation of a marine association dedicated to the safeguard and the protection of the resource sea, similar to already existing organisms in other countries.

In the course of the Grimaldi assembly it has confirmed that the fleet of Italian flag to end 2015 attests itself on 16,5 million the tons of tonnage with an ulterior reduction of the -3% regarding the end of 2014. Moreover - it has specified - the esteem in the first months of the 2016 indicate a positive trend of the consistency of the fleet. "He is obvious - it has found - that the shipping Italian, as that world-wide one, at the moment suffers of a total economic phase much detail, cause of serious crisis species in the field of the bulk sand banks, where the resumption of the hires finds it hard to take off. Moreover, there are sections as that of the cruises and the ferries ro-ro that they continue to record increase trend".

Moreover Grimaldi, in illustrating the iter legislative of the European law, currently to the Chamber of Deputies, than to article 24 previews measures that - has evidenced - they go to carve the normative system of the international Registry thanks to which has been possible to preserve the competitiveness of the Italian fleet also in periods of crises, has restated that they truly turn out "little comprehensible initiatives that, in the name of a formal defense of the occupation of marine Italians, could involve an opposite result, with the loss of thousands of places of work, as a result of the passage to other flag of many Italian ships". "I emphasize - it has added - that without a flag fleet could not exist an able marine cluster to produce wealth and to contribute to the economy of the Country". "In fact - it has concluded Grimaldi - for being competitive on the international market it is necessary to operate to the conditions of the competition. And without competitiveness not there is occupation. From 1998 Italy has understood the importance of a flag fleet and has adopted a norm that has invert the phenomenon of the flagging out towards foreign flags and thrown again the development of our merchant navy".

Confitarma has announced that in the course of the today's assembly news has reached that the classroom of the Senate has approved of the amendment that on December 31, 2016 postpones the delegation to the effettuazione of the course theorist-meadows us for the boarded security guards on mercantile ships that operate in areas to piracy risk. The disposition for being effective must still pass the examination of the Chamber of Deputies.

Al term of the Grimaldi reunion has announced that the public session of the assembly will hold to Rome next 24 October to the presence of the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, and of Vincenzo Boccia, president of Confindustria.