The "lobby" of the Sicilian ports is born



Today to Messina the Harbour Authority of Messina, the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Sicily Oriental and the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Western Sicily has undersigned an understanding protocol in order to start a collaboration constant between the three harbour agencies and to facilitate the exchange of good praxis and the protection of the collective interest, prelude to the constitution of an association of Sicilian ports with center to Palermo and presided from president of the AdSP of the Sea of Sicily Orientale, Andrea Annunziata.

From years the Sicilian Harbour Authorities already collaborate in the within of the promotion of the crocieristica activity, introducing itself together with the fairs of field in Italy and abroad. The new synergy will serve to organize advertising or formative initiatives of common, European and on a national level international interest, to promote the Sicilian portualità and of the marine cluster in every center.

One of the objectives is that to value the tourist-cultural Sicily and its wealth leaving from particular doors of access, the ports, organic part of an economy that has conformed in the specific centuries cultures and drafts of life. Moreover between the objectives there are those of giving impulse to the planning and to the programming, to get ahead a coordinate bond development of the marine and plurimodale Sicilian system of the transports to service of the regional and national economy, in coherence with the principles contained in national the strategic Plan of the portualità and the logistics, European net TEN- T and the Mediterranean Scandinavian Corridor.

An exchange of experiences that, besides to promote the evolution of Sicilian infrastructures and the performance and the management of initiatives of the trasportistiche nets, the infrastructural nodes and the intermodal platforms and for the logistics, will put every initiative directed to the sustainable development of the marine economy and the transports, promuovendo the widest possible application of the energies alternatives, in the interest of the Sicilian portualità.

"This signature - the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Messina has commented, Antonino De Simone - represents for us, than we have still not transformed ourselves in Authority of Harbour System, the acknowledgment of a truth, represented from the jurisdiction ports. But above all it is a sign turned to all the Sicilians because they comprise the added value represented from the harbour agencies for the territory on which they insist. Entirety we will be stronger in the work of promotion of the "brand" Sicily on the international markets of the logistics and the crocierismo".

"Ours - it has specified president of the AdSP of the Sea of Sicily Orientale, Andrea Annunziata - is not a thrust autonomist, but the experience us standard that to make system is today an ineludible strategy. We can become an alternative to Assoporti and to introduce itself together with the tables of Rome and Brussels in order to make "to weigh" the ports and the respective territories on the contractual plan: the Sicily has the duty to prepare itself to compete in the world of the total markets. The ZES can be fly extraordinary in order to attract investments in the pertinence areas, not only for the offered defiscalizzazione but above all for the speed of the times of realization of the projects".

"In a Sicily that he wants to leave again from the sea - the president of the AdSP of the Sea of Western Sicily has declared, Pasqualino Monti - the order word is "aggregation", that is to introduce itself in a logic of system that the appeal increases in confronts of the interlocutor, above all foreign. We will continue to ahead go everyone with own strategies, peculiarity, priority and assets: we will be three distinguished papers but inside of the same bunch".