characterizing Elements and points of criticality of the reform of the governance of the Italian ports



To seem generally positive on the new form of governance of the Italian ports defined from I decree legislative n. 196 4th August are expressed in the course of specific the two days of study and deepening organized from the Union Pilots and held last week near the Circle Official Giuseppe Garibaldi of Marina Militare of La Maddalena. However the current operating difficulties are evidenced, between which those correlated to the demands for moratorium to the provision formulated from some regional agencies, to persisting of the commissariamento of some Harbour Authorities, to the new operating modalities of the baby Committee of Management and the National Conference of Coordination of the new Authorities of Harbour System (AdSP).

Enrico Maria Pujia, in charge of the head office for the vigilance on the Harbour Authorities, harbour infrastructures and the marine transport and for water internal ways of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, has emphasized the corrected decision of the legislator to reduce to fifteen the Authorities of Harbour System and has rimarcato the necessity to exceed parochialisms since, with the current reform - he has found - "is not more the moment than to discuss about single harbour truths, but about System Country, synergy between the ports in the respect of a programming that must be necessarily national, taken into consideration the huge necessary investments for the modernization and the increase of the level of competitiveness of our ports that are found to face more and more complex challenges also regarding new ports of call in the Mediterranean that a ten of years ago had a secondary role while today they are broken important crossroads international, developing annual handling of some million teu, which Tangeri and Malta".

The general secretary of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), Paolo Ferrandino, has been said sure that, "with the amalgamation of some Harbour Authorities in an only Authority of Harbour System, the new governance will afford the sinergica administration more ports with consequent simplification of the decisional processes and the times of answer". Moreover Ferrandino has exhorted not to underrate the importance of the new table of partnership of the resource sea, in which it meets the representation of the professional categories and that - has specified - "it will not have to be simply felt from the Authority, that will have to always motivate a refusal to a its advisory opinion".

Also Stefania Visco, president of Federimorchiatori, have agreed that the amalgamation of the Harbour Authorities is "element essential in order to realize a developed harbour system and in competition with other European harbour systems, a more functional system therefore to the requirements of the harbour districts that will bring certain benefits to our ports having started they effective increment of productivity and therefore of increase of the investments of infrastructures", but also have raised some interpretative doubts on some points of decree legislativo196/2016: in particular, the president of Federimorchiatori has evidenced problematic the relative one to the partnership table, whose composition does not appear still clear, and has restated the delicacy of the choice of the figure of the coordinator of the national Table of coordination of the AdSP, which parrebbe from the text of the norm a subject external to the MIT, but named from the Minister of Infrastructures and the Transports advance verification of proven experience and professional qualification in the fields of the economy of the transports and harbour.

Remembering the daily difficulties with which own associates they must be confronted in order to approach the ports, in order then to have still to face the times of waited for the development of the operations of cargo and drainage of the container, president of the Venetian Confartigianato Trasporti, Nazzareno Ortoncelli, it has placed to the attention on the necessity that all the fifteen AdSP adopt a "only system of conditioned and free access, avoiding that a hauler that has already obtained the access, for example, to the port of Genoa, must proceed to a new procedure of authentication for being able to approach the port of Savona, and another anchor for the port of Livorno".

Also president of the Confartigianato Trasporti Padua, Michele Varotto, has stopped himself on the problematic ones of the unjustifiable times of attended in the Italian ports, with the haulers who daily endure not programmed pauses near the harbour terminals often caused by problems of transmission of data VGM, containing the verification of the gross weight of the container for the boarding introduced last July from Solas convention. Varotto therefore has wished that in the next few months problematic ones can be exceeded such, allowing also in the Italian terminals harbour which is already happening in other European harbour truths, that is to afford to the hauler to exhaust the container in a dedicated area and to leave again, also in absence of drainage VGM, avoiding to compromise its operativity.

About coordination and uniformazione of the procedures the president of Fedespedi has spoken also, Roberto Alberti, that he has evidenced the importance of the creation of a true Only Door that - it has observed - "can and must represent the true point of carried out, as essential instrument for the overcoming of found the parochial praxes" in the precedence Harbour Authorities. From part its Alberti has granted "to an opening of credit to the partnership with all possible reserves to this new system of appraisal because - it has specified - it is necessary to divide the decisore agency from which it participates from the entrepreneurial point of view and that every form of efficientamento must be estimated positively".

To the encounter, moderated from the marittimista lawyer Paolo Malaguti (Law firm Malaguti & Partners), has participated between the others also Davide Calderan, managing director of the Reunited Tugs Panfido, Massimo Mura, managing director of Tirrenia, Vasco De Cet of the Italian Association Tourist Ports (Assomarinas) and Greta Tellarini, associate university professor by right of Navigation in the University of the Studies of Bologna.