Today the new shipowning confederation Italian AssArmatori is constituted



Today to Rome AssArmatori is constituted officially, new confederation of the operating shipowners in Italy. Ignazio Messina & C take part until from quickly of the new representation the shipowning groups, Large the Navi Veloci, Marine Italy, Finaval (group Beans), besides Fedarlinea, the association that reunite the more important active companies in the field of the cabotage and the connections with the islands, between which Moby lines, Tirrenia, Snav, Delcomar, Maddalena Lines, Toremar, and Caremar.

The objective of the new confederation is to represent not only the national companies, but also international groups with strong interests in Italy and an important role in the Italian marine labor market, first of all the Helvetic group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is in its member cargo that through MSC Cruises.

AssArmatori, than altogether represents groups that operate beyond 600 ships for a direct occupation of about 70.000 attache's, is presided by Stefano Messina, president of the shipowning group genoese Messina, that it will remain in charge for next the four years.

"AssArmatori - it has emphasized Stefano Messina - is born already hard of numerous marine history years behind, expressing experience in all the strategic sections for connectivity and the economic development of the Italy Country: freeways of the sea, fleeting cruises, transport, almost the totality of local public transport towards the smaller islands, transport of long range, rotabili and container. AssArmatori will be therefore interlocutor of reference for the institutions is Italians who European for the development in charge of the economy of the sea, with its important fallen back in terms of occupation, infrastructures, development of the territories and tourism".

"Too much often our field - it has continued Messina - has quickly decisions and chosen for sure aspects taxes from other economic interests, that they have looked to the sea as to an instrument and not to a "asset" of fundamental value for politics of a great industrial and tourist Country. It is time to change the route, remaining open to the dialogue with all, but asserting credibility and role: and this journeys through the full knowledge of the main characteristic of the armament, that it is its internationalization".

Messina has specified that the new confederation is candidated quickly from becoming open a common house to the dialogue with anyone wants to act in the interest of a field that - it has remembered - it is trying to exit to hard work from a been extended period of crisis and "that still it must heal the many wounds that have been opened in the past few years".

Moreover AssArmatori has announced the intention to immediately open a dialogue with the labor organizations let alone with other present trade associations in the field, for wide-ranging confronts on new models of representation and dealing adapted to the double requirement to guarantee a greater competitiveness of the system Country and to grow the occupation of the staff Italian sailor, one of the best ones and more prepared of the world.