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Around the marine Italians the appeals to the peace and the inducements to the war are wasted
Between the launches Honored, Grimaldi, Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti and Federmar, are more the fomentatori that those theses to a rapprochement
June 13, 2017

In recent days Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have invited to wind down the tones of the controversy on the employment of marine Italians on the ships of the fleets that are under responsibility to Italian shipowners, confront that it is characterized by an ignited contrast between Vincenzo Onorato, the shipowner that guides the Honored group Shipping that work marine services with the companies of navigation Moby, Tirrenia CIN and Toremar, and Emanuele Grimaldi, Shipping president of the Italian Confederation (Confitarma) and managing director of the shipowning group Grimaldi that is constituted by a constellation of companies between which Grimaldi Lines, Atlantic Container Linens (ACL), Minoan Lines and Finnlines ( of the 9 and 10 May and june 2017).

The appeal of the three labor organizations has turned out unheard. Honored, evidently convinced that the exhortation of Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti was time to tacitare its reasonings, it has reacted expressing abashment for the accusations mossegli from the three unions, than - it has emphasized - they have inculpated "of having "a too much aggressive tone", evidencing that the topic would have necessity of "a groundbreaking analysis and not tifoserie", and that they have exhorted studies and work in order to face "complex and variable dynamics of the occupation of the marine Italians".

"Not a signal, not even not veiled - it has replied Honored - to the next European law today to the Commission of the Chamber: Italy - it has clarified the shipowner - will extend the fiscal facilities of the Italian International Registry also to the companies that enroll the ships in other flags of the European Union. What wants to say? The Italian shipowners - he has found Honored - will change flag, passing from the Italian to another European, conserving the Italian tax exemption and the tax rebate and contributive for the marine ones. Free from the Italian flag, little marine Italians will be able to disembark those whom they have still boarded and to enjoy the fiscal immunity of our country. The damage and the prank! Defended other that of the occupation! Other that occupational strategy for the young people! All then to expenses of the Italian State and the Italian contributors who pay the taxes, also in favor of the Italian shipowners that do not pay and they do not favor the occupation to them".

"And the union that ago? It asks me - observed Honored - to wind down the tones. Perhaps because - it has added - to high tones, it will come outside, sooner or later, than the only interlocutor had from the governments who are succeduti from 1998 - year of promulgazione of the law on the International Registry - today they have been the shipowners with their Confitarma (Confederation from which the Honored group of a year has exited and means make, ndr). The workers - he has denounced Honored - are abandoned in the hands of the masters of the sea. This that delegitimizes the union, that union, that is the Triple one that wishes "low tones" on the event, is 11 a which signed agreement the February of 2003 with which the Confitarma, read the shipowners, you grant a deposit of 190 marine euros for boarded is Italian-communitarian that non-EU own to the Triple one! But - it has still contested Honored - isn't the Triple one Italian? It wouldn't have to defend the Italians? And then because it perceives money also for the marine non-EU citizens? To me, more than a conflict of interest, it seems a true trash. Tesoretto that it is worth for the Triple one a million ten euro and on the money evidently does not spit not even the unions".

Honored it has concluded emphasizing that "today the ship is quickly sinking, dragging to bottom the occupation of our people" and that, "in order to save it we must make to approve of this law: ships with Italian flag in national cabotage, boarded on board only Italian-communitarian; ships with Italian flag in international service, the safety table must be formed marine solos from Italian-communitarian. With these foundations the fiscal benefits of the International Registry will only be able to be conserved". According to Honored, a such law "will save thousands of places of work and of it will create other thousands, and that when passes to the sieve of Europe conserves, also for the other European flags, requirement in order to continue protect the occupation of our people".

The inflamed Honored retort of - and, undoubtedly, not even not veiled accusation turned from the shipowner to the unions to defend the position of the shipowners of Confitarma because from these subsidized also for the boarding of marine non-EU citizens - has induced Uiltrasporti and Filt Cgil to beat again. The first labor organization has remembered that "current law 30/98 in almost 20 years has created many places of work, more than 40.000, than which at least more than 30.000 marine Italians and it has made to more jump the Italian marineria from little units than 700 ships under the Italian flag".

"It can be made more? Sure yes - it has observed Uiltrasporti - and in order to make it we are not contrary to migliorative modifications of law or in extremis to a new law, solution this on which we have expressed some doubts, because they worry us the 30,000 Italians who today are guaranteed by the current law and that they are found in Italian flag. In fact, changing with the chip ax a legislative picture that involves the escape of some shipowners from our International Registry for another foreign flag thing it would happen to many of these workers? Whoever will embark them"

"To plan new occupation - it has evidenced the national secretariat of Uiltrasporti - it is a responsibility action that must involve all, enterprises, union and government, and certainly cannot have as premised the determination of conditions that produce unemployment. It is not with protezionistiche laws and moreover not even not concerted with all the main national actors, than the competition between enterprises is won, oltretutto in one of the main internationalized fields more of the Italian, European and world-wide economy. This does not say the union to it, but it is wide demonstrated by the behaviors of all the main world-wide economies, and on the other hand not even the European Union would not afford us".

Uiltrasporti has restated that a shared strategy is indispensable: "for these reasons of protection, defense and development of the Italian marine job - it has explained the union - we are convinced that it is necessary great sense of responsibility, putting all to sit in order to find shared solutions to us, that they could successively also find the recepimento legislative. Without a sharing of the rules, in a strongly liberal market as that marine one, marked from the great dynamics variety of different types of ships and transport with commercial and competitive characteristic different, us they could not never be solutions to the problem of the occupation and the job on board of the crews. We - it has specified the union - have evidenced already some proposals and we are already exposing to them to the institutional and datoriali tables. Proposals that not only hold also account of the occupation of the marine ones but also of its quality. The signallings that we receive, and without society distinction are too many, on the excessive workloads that on board delineate real forms of uncontrolled exploitation of the ships".

"At last - it has continued Uiltrasporti - we become also account that everyone must make own role. It is natural that an employer has a vision of the problems of the job closely connected to the opportunities and the requirements of profit. For this the union exists, than in Italy it has a long history of fight and defense democratic of the job. It exists because the workers comprise and want that the job is estimated by the point concrete point of view of who then it realizes with own job the enterprise of the property, without beneficent or stucchevolmente populistiche good wills, but argument and objective fact of real protection and guarantee of the dignity of the workers".

More sand bank the retort than Uiltrasporti relatively to the deep ones perceived from the union: "for how much then it regards the trade-union contributions - it has clarified the national secretariat - the union does not receive oboli or elargizioni from datoriali subjects neither is paid by some. The contributions are transparent and previewed from the Charter of the workers and the specific laws in matter, in order to guarantee the existence and independence of the union from the employers and the groups of interest, the labor laws of who to already it has us and of who it will have it, and the bases of the democracy of this Country. Unfortunately we must state that by now from long time Mr. Vincenzo Onorato shows an upset habit to attack the union in any case, as was a laughing stock kind and not the representative of thousands of workers, included many employee its. Not last, when Uiltrasporti, to the eve of the acquisition by its group of Tirrenia, raised the problem of a monopolistic configuration in the field ferries for the connection with the great islands, it did not hesitate to denounce the Federation of the Transports of Uil for defamation. But the court gave to flood reason and satisfaction to the Uiltrasporti, confirming the worries of market concentration of the union”.

Uiltrasporti has sped up rather a examination on the public funds who ends in the cases of the Honored group Shipping: “currently at a distance of little years - it has found the union - the situation of the connections with the islands is changed for a greater presence more operators on the same drafts. This must carry the State consequently to reflect if they are still necessary 72 million that annually it contributes to the Tirrenia society for the territorial continuity”.

A conclusive exhortation that cannot not have aggravated the Honored tantrum of, even if Uiltrasporti has finished its letter opened on the marine Italians specifying that, “from hour, for our part we intend to extinguish every useless and unproductive controversy. To we - the labor organization has restated - it interests the good job and the occupational development on the ships of our marine ones. For this, once again and we will not get tired to continue to make it, renew the invitation to wind down the tones and to discuss all around to a table”.

Equally irritateed the answer of the Filt Cgil, second which “to point out the union it is a provocative operation and at the same time also little original”. “The debate in relation to law 30/98 on the International Registry - it has observed the Federation of the Transports of Cgil - cannot be reduced to the calculation of the benefits to the shipowners and the unions “convenient”, as it says Honored, but considers is right to recall parliament and government to establish a balance between how much the contributor invests and the return on the fiscal and occupational plan and we wish a serious and total reform of the field and not to ad”.

“For how much it regards to us - it has specified the Filt Cgil - when the modification to law 30/98 is effective takes note some, we will respect it and make so that it is respected. We beat ourselves for that marine staff who, between its rights, meets many difficulties in the possession approached the support forms Inps in normal times, for the acknowledgment of the marine job between those onerous and wearing ones, in order to try to avoid that he must load itself with improper costs in order to maintain own titles and for that staff who measure with enormous difficulties that they do not concern to wage differentiations to advantage of communitarian extra staff, but of professional adaptation to the standards minimums in order to obtain embarks to it”.

“For us - it has supported still the Filt Cgil addressing directly to Honored - the relationships are worth and the relations that we entertain with our counterparts, comprised its, with which we look for and often we find agreements and for which today convintamente we consider that the International Registry has guaranteed a general interest. Within the next few years one will even notice than to have to go wrong deontological regarding organizations that have crossed also the darker years and less democratics of the Italian history and that, with great humility and as well as respect, tries to represent the job also in front of who, as she, evidently it thinks to carry out all the parts in comedy: the shipowner, the capopopolo, the politician and the only union member of the marine Italians”.

Sul topic is taken part also the Federmar-Cisal that, in a letter sent to the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, has denounced “the responsibilities to which ago to go back the serious condition of existing unemployment between the marine ones of this country”. “It is convincement of the labor organization - the national secretary of the Federation of the Cisal has explained Marine, Alessandro Pico - than on the first floor must be place the same Ministry of Transportation, totally absent in all these years in applying those instruments (Observatory of the reform and labor market of the placement) that the legislator had placed to protection of the marine Italians in the opening to the employment of the foreign workers on the ships of the national fleet”.

Also Federmar-Cisal does not hesitate launch its sinks: “he is probable - it has found Pico - that the Ministry is induced to underrate the occupational problem of the marine ones in front of the positions of the shipowning associations and the unions of category of Cgil, Cisl, Uil, sure more careful parts to manage the resource to the marine non-EU citizens that the places of work for the sailors of this country”.

“In fact - Pico has raised the price - they give beyond twenty years is standing a synergy of mutual interest between Confitarma and confederal union that from time to time, because of exceptions, has loosened the shirts and constraints in the formation of the crews, granting practically free hand to the shipowning enterprises, is of the oceanic navigation that of the cabotage, in the substitution of the marine Italians with the not communitarian ones. It exists, therefore, documents friendly, a tie between Confitarma and confederal unions not only of management but also of substance if annually some million contributions are poured by the shipowners in the cases of these organizations”.

For Federmar, “with the emanation of I decree legislative 221/2016, is the concrete possibility to on the whole print a radical steered in occupational politics of the marine section of this country, finding - as also supported from the Honored shipowner - an just balance in the formation of the crews of the fleet (cabotage and South Sea islander) in a position to conciliating the just expectations of the workers to having an occupation with the need of the enterprises to support the competition of the other marinerie. In conclusion - the letter of Federmar-Cisal finishes - stoccata to the Confitarma for the threat to transfer part of the fleet under other flags, association that they always give cries misery in order to obtain something in exchange”.
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The Federagenti assembly will be held in Civitavecchia on July 3rd.
Rome
Pessina: We will not discuss regulations, community relations, or the pursuit of theories and bureaucracy, but rather the challenges of Italian port infrastructure.
Spediporto has opened its own representative office in Hong Kong
Genoa
Giachero: the opening of this desk is also an opportunity for young people
Arcese, Conti and Cosulich establish a company for the port logistics of finished vehicles
Livorno
HMM orders eight bulk carriers and two gas carriers
Seoul
Investment of approximately 1.1 billion dollars
MPC Container Ships has purchased four 7,000 TEU containerships built between 2023 and 2024.
Oslo
Investment of 340 million dollars
FedEx posts record quarterly and annual revenue
Memphis
Total revenues in fiscal year 2026 amounted to $94.7 billion (+7.7%)
Geopolitical uncertainty has become the main risk for shipping
Munich
Evergreen purchases 140,500 new containers in China
Taipei
Investments totaling $358.9 million
Memorandum of Understanding for the Launch of Drone Use in the Port of Palermo
Palermo
Submission of the request for the establishment of U-Space
Yesterday, the Strait of Hormuz was crossed by 42 commercial vessels
Paris
For the first time since the beginning of the conflict, several LNG tankers entered the Persian Gulf
Saipem wins new $1 billion offshore contract in Angola
Milan
It was awarded by Azule Energy for the Greater PAJ project
Port of Ancona: Dredging work has begun on the seabed of quay 22.
Ancona
Approximately six thousand cubic meters of sediment will be removed
Confitarma welcomes clarifications regarding ship waste collection management.
Rome
The need for uniform application of the legislation throughout the country was highlighted.
The Tuscan Cooperation Development Fund invests in Uniport Livorno.
Livorno
Operation for a total of 880 thousand euros carried out together with co-investor Coopfond
Fit-Cisl, recognizing dock work as arduous is a priority
Genoa
Pagnotta: This is not a corporate claim, but a question of social justice.
Hupac increases weekly rotations between Antwerp and Busto Arsizio via France to four.
Noise
Two additional departures of the intermodal service introduced
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
The conference "EU-Mercosur Agreement: The Role of the Maritime Economy" will be held in Genoa on July 1st.
Genoa
It is organized by the Casa America ETS Foundation and the Western Liguria Port Authority
The Federagenti assembly will be held in Civitavecchia on July 3rd.
Rome
Pessina: We will not discuss regulations, community relations, or the pursuit of theories and bureaucracy, but rather the challenges of Italian port infrastructure.
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
World's first floating fusion reactor-powered vessel could become reality with new project
(Interesting Engineering)
Shipbuilding's Spring Illusion: Backbone Collapses
(The Chosun Daily)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
From July, the tariff for naval transit through the Turkish Straits will increase by +14.9%.
Istanbul
It will be raised to $6.70 per net tonne
Fincantieri and Republikorp sign agreement to build multipurpose naval vessels in Indonesia.
Paris
The establishment of a joint venture is planned
Study on the divergences between the EU Ship Recycling Regulation and the Hong Kong Convention
Brussels/London
It has been published by ECSA and ICS
The 2026-2028 POT of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea Port Authority has been approved.
Gioia Tauro
Approval also granted to the 2026 budget forecast variation and to the update of the Port's Staffing Plan.
Autonomous Navigation: ABS, Polaris Shipping, HHI, and AVIKUS Sign Agreement
Athens
It will be tested on a VLOC under certain low-risk conditions
Tomorrow in Sant'Agnello (Naples) the inauguration event of the Italy Branch of The Nautical Institute
London
The topics of discussion will include energy transition in the maritime industry, maritime education and training.
The Municipality of Bologna is reconsidering the divestment of its stake in Interporto Bologna.
Bologna/Bentivoglio
An institutional delegation from Flanders visited the interport
Eni and Fincantieri sign agreement to develop innovative underwater monitoring technologies.
Milan/Trieste
Agreement focused on Eni's "Clean Sea" technology
In 2025, LNG consumption in Italy grew by +11% driven by industry and new uses, with the debut in the naval segment
Rome
Amadei (Federchimica LNG Group): Use ETS and FuelEU revenues to support investments and deployment of lower-carbon fuels.
RT&L partners with China's Guangzhou Salvage to strengthen its project cargo segment
Genoa
Bizzarri: the sector is characterised by wide margins for development and profitability
Last year, cargo traffic in Greek ports amounted to 140.8 million tons (-1.5%)
Piraeus
Goods volumes remained unchanged in the fourth quarter only
The International Container Study Center's board and governing body have been renewed.
Genoa
Filippo Gallo confirmed as president and Paolo Pessina as vice-president
Catani (GNV): allocate ETS proceeds to the development of synthetic fuel production chains.
Rome
Resources - he specified - also for port infrastructures and the reduction of the cost differential compared to traditional fuels
Consultation launched on plans to expand the port areas of Fos
Marseille
The goal is to involve residents and local stakeholders
Somec signs €60 million contract with Finnish shipyard
San Vendemiano
One of the most complex interventions ever entrusted to the Horizons division
Daniele Rossi, former president of the port of Ravenna, has passed away.
Rome
He led the port authority for over eight years
ONE will remove calls in Greece and Türkiye from its Adriatic Service 1 service.
Singapore
In Italy it touches the ports of Venice and Ancona
The first phase of the APM Terminals terminal in the port of Suape has been inaugurated.
Suape
It will become operational in the second half of this year
Container traffic increased in May at the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong
Singapore/Hong Kong
Singapore sets record bunkering levels for liquefied natural gas and pure B100 biodiesel
Vavassori confirmed as president of the Lombardy Association of Freight Forwarders and Haulers
Milan
Albertina Schiavoni and Mario Zini have been appointed vice-presidents
The president of Angopi receives the first professional certificate of competence as a mooring man.
Savona
The certificate must be renewed every five years.
Fincantieri has delivered the new cruise ship Mein Schiff Flow to TUI Cruises.
Hamburg/Monfalcone
With a gross tonnage of approximately 160,000 tons, it has a capacity of approximately 4,000 passengers.
In the first three months of 2026, freight traffic in the port of Palermo decreased by -6.3%
Palermo
Traffic also decreased in the ports of Termini Imerese, Trapani, and Licata. Increases occurred in Porto Empedocle and Gela.
The Antitrust Authority has not given its final approval for the acquisition of Armas' assets and activities by Baleària.
Barcelona
Set a series of conditions
Assarmatori's annual assembly will take place in Rome on Tuesday.
Rome
The event's theme is "Instructions for not navigating in the dark."
VARD to build a new generation fishing vessel
Trieste
It was ordered by the Norwegian company Rosund Drift
Concentration in the UK shipbuilding sector
London
Baleana buys APCL Group (A&P Tyne, Cammell Laird and A&P Falmouth and Falmouth Docks and Engineering)
Royal Caribbean has taken delivery of its new Legend of the Seas cruise ship.
Miami
Built by Meyer Turku, it can accommodate 5,610 passengers
Informal hearings of trade union representatives on port governance reform
Rome
At the heart of the critical issues highlighted - confirms Filt-Cgil - is the planned establishment of Porti d'Italia Spa
Venice, the DPSS confirms the need to build new offshore terminals outside the lagoon.
Venice
The Strategic System Programming Document has been approved by the AdSP Management Committee
The Spinelli Group has joined the Italian Association of Port Terminal Operators
Genoa
The company and Assiterminal expressed satisfaction with the resumption of an important association
In the first three months of 2026, freight traffic at UK ports fell by -2.6%
London
More significant decrease (-6.8%) in boarding loads
Mark Hindley is the new president of the European Motor Vehicle Logistics Association
Istanbul
Wolfgang Göbel was elected honorary president
At the Port of Genoa, a tugboat was stopped for irregularities in nitrogen oxide emissions.
Genoa
The vessel is used for the construction works of the new breakwater
In April, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna grew by +21.4%
Ravenna
An increase of +2.5% is expected in May
Sallaum Lines to launch dedicated China-Europe service in 2027
Nanjing
Two new 7,400 CEU PCTCs taken delivery
On June 12th in Naples, an initiative by Filt Cgil on governance in the port sector
Rome
Naval drone found in Romanian port of Constanta
Bucharest
The device self-destructed without causing any casualties.
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