Appreciation of Confcommercio and Conftrasporto for the green light to the harbour reform



"Confcommercio and Conftrasporto express alive appreciation for the definitive approval of the harbour reform". It has declared Paolo Uggè, vice president of Confcommercio and president of Conftrasporto, commenting the green light definitive given yesterday from the Council of Ministers to I decree legislative of "Reorganization, rationalization and simplification of the Harbour Authorities".

"After a which lasted wait various legislatures - it has emphasized Boredoms - finally the operators, thanks to the engagement of minister Delrio, have a normative picture of renewed reference and more effective for own activities, we are sure that they will not be made to escape the new opportunities".

Boredoms have found that "the reform creates concrete bases for throws again of the national system of the ports and the logistics. They are in fact positive and, online with the expectations of the Confederation and its articulated logistic-harbour row - it has explained - the dispositions times to the strategic centralization of the decisions, the reorganization of about 60 ports of national importance in 15 Authorities of System, the bureaucratic simplification, through the only doors, the lightening of the formalities and the simplification of the procedures of approval of the Harbour Town development plans, the woven involvement of entrepreneurial in the organisms of partnership of the Resource the sea".

Wishing that the modernization of the harbour system quickly continues to the aim to return the competitive Country in the international scene, the vice president of Confcommercio has evidenced the importance of the total performance of Strategic the national Plan of the Portualità and Logistica and some equally important regarding decisions the marine cabotage. Yesterday, in fact, the Council of Ministers has approved of, under investigation preliminary, decrees legislative of reorders of the enforced legislative dispositions in matter of fiscal, social insurance and contributive incentives in favour of the marine enterprises. The provision has the scope to define a mainly competitive system that incentives the investments in the marine field and favor the increase of the occupation and the safeguard of the national fleet, in the respect of the fundamental principles of the European Union and the communitarian dispositions on the aids of State and the competition.

To such purpose Fedarlinea, the Italian association of the line armament, it has emphasized that draft of a provision that "goes in the right direction and - has specified the president of the association, Raffaello Aiello - would seem to face two fundamental topics for the economy of the sea: the valorization of the competences of the marine Italians and the possibility for the shipowning enterprises of being able to enjoy a regime Vat that avoids extra-costs and guarantees adapted investments, for a long time demanded priority of Fedarlinea".

"If the disposition on the Vat were confirmed - it has concluded Aiello - the overcoming of a fiscal imposition strongly penalizing for the cabotage companies, to which it comes instead recognized the fundamental social role for mobility of the people, it would afford to increase the quality of the services and the offer".