Confitarma evidences to the parliamentarians the specificities and the importance of national the shipowning industry



Today the Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma) has participated to the audition convened from the special Commission reunited of Chamber and Senate in the within of the examination of the outline of I decree legislative of performance of the directive EU 2015/1794, than modification directives 2008/94/CE, 2009/38/CE and 2002/14/CE and directives 98/59/CE and 2001/23/CE, regarding the marine ones.

In the course of the encounter the general manager of Confitarma, Luca Sisto, has mentioned that the main scope of the directive is to extend, also to the marine staff, the application of some communitarian directives in matter of protection of the workers. Moreover he has emphasized that in Italy good part of the guarantees introduced from directive 2015/1794 is already anticipates in the internal ordering. Practically - it has specified the representative of Confitarma - regarding the protections of the previewed marine workers in the European directive, Italy already guaranteed better conditions decidedly respect to other communitarian Countries to strong marine vocation as Denmark, Malta and Cyprus. Sisto has remembered that for this Confitarma it has opportunely received favorably the directive EU and now of it wishes a fast performance, which conclusion of the constructive deepening carried out with the labor organizations near the ministry of the Job and the social policies.

Confitarma has announced that in the course of the audition questions tied to the International Registry and in purpose are placed by the parliamentarians the director of Confitarma, in emphasizing that the outline of I decree legislative in argument it does not have nothing to that seeing with the law n.30 of 1998, has emphasized that the vituous distance is begun with the "positive ones measures" of the 1989 that has carried in 1998 to the institution of the International Registry, from which - it has evidenced Sisto - they are derived unquestionable benefits for the Country in terms of increase of the fleet, the marine occupation and the induced one to earth. "The Italian marine cluster that produces 2% of the GDP national and appoints to a job almost 500,000 assigned - it has remembered - royal palaces on a single pillar that calls International Registry".

To conclusion of the Confitarma encounter it has intended to answer to ulterior questions emerged in the course of the audition to which it has not been possible to answer for time lack. In particular, the shipowning confederation has mentioned that it does not correspond to true the affirmation that the marine contributive communitarian extras enjoy relief borne by the State Italian (the social burdens for such marine ones are at the expense of the shipowners). Moreover the formation of the marine communitarian extras, if in compliance with Stcw convention 78 of the IMO, is validated by the Italian administration before the boarding on the Italian ships. On all the ships - Confitarma has explained then - the "language of edge", than on the international traffics can also be English, comes preventively established own to the aim to guarantee the communication between the members of the crew and to assure safety of navigation. Moreover the performance of the reform of the placement of the Seafarers is evidenced that also Confitarma for a long time attends the institution of the Observatory previewed from law 30 of 1998, let alone: the two institutes - it has emphasized the confederation - will be able to favor the much auspicious Registrar's office of the Seafarers. At last Confitarma has rimarcato that Italian is the fleet of flag that occupies more marine communitarian Italians and to the world, with beyond 37.000 marine communitarian Italians/who work on the Italian ships.