AssArmatori emphasizes the right of the companies of navigation, established from the norms, of "autoprodurre" harbour operations



AssArmatori, the new Italian shipowning association constituted at the beginning of this year, is taken part today on the topic of the self-handler (self-handling) in the ports, that is on the possibility for the navigation companies to employ own staff of edge in order to execute activity of stowage, rizzaggio and derizzaggio of cargos on the ships in port rather than to make use of the performances of harbour workers, activities that mainly are carried out for the parking of the vehicles in the bridges garage of the ferries and that they are regulated by norms. These regulations - second the unions - recently are repeatedly violated and this has induced the representatives from svoltosi the workers to call a strike friday slid in all the Italian harbour ports of call.

Finding that "the right of the companies of navigation of "autoprodurre" harbour operations is sanctioned from national laws and European in vigor they give beyond twenty years", the shipowning association has manifested however "full will and availability to discuss the implementing modalities about this right also with the labor organizations, but - AssArmatori has emphasized - not the negation of this right. All - it has specified the association - restating with force that safety is absolute priority for the shipowners and it is obviously for the crews of the ships".

AssArmatori has explained that this is in synthesis the position of the association and to such purpose it has made reference to two specific cases, both reported to navigation companies that have joined the new association. First it regards "the current state of trade-union agitation in Sicily against the decision of the Charon company & Tourist Spa to extend to own controlled enterprise, C&T - Minori Spa Islands, I inside use it of the staff of edge (also through the assumption of new marine of its organic) for the effettuazione of the operations of rizzaggio and derizzaggio of commercial means mostly with driver to the continuation and for other types second how much - has remembered the association - adopted for a long time on other lines of local transport managed by the company. Moreover Charon Tourist - it has specified AssArmatori - also has restated the availability to make itself loaded, in the within of own organic ones and own types of job, of eventual esuberi that the self-handler activity had to induce on the territory.

Analogous AssArmatori position has assumed also regarding the relative case another associate, GNV, "than - it has observed the association - in the enforced normative uncertainty in the ports governed from the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western and however acting in transparency on the base of an understanding with the Company of the harbour workers, it has taken a fine in order to have completed operations of rizzaggio and derizzaggio with own marine ones".

The association has emphasized that, "in the respect of the laws and of the regulations to protection of safety, the trade-union positions and the harbour work force, AssArmatori cannot not rimarcare at a distance as the right to the self-handler is, very beyond 20 years from the emanation of the antitrust law and the harbour law of reform, respective dated 1990 and of 1994, a right at this point well-drawn and regulated. And in Sicily - the association has remembered - how much previewed from law 84/94 is applied (codicil 4, lett. d) of art. the 16) and from I decree ministerial n. the 585 on March 31, 1995 that it has established the modalities through which enterprises of navigation can make use of the equipments and the personal edge in order to carry out harbour operations and services".

Specifying that to warning of AssArmatori "margins for an appraisal of the local situations exist" and that on this "the shipowning association shares the opportunity of I confront with the competent Ministry, the Body of the Harbour offices, the Authorities of Harbour System and the labor organizations", the shipowning association has evidenced that such I confront, however, "it cannot be based on a negation of the law, and therefore of a right primary of the shipowning enterprises, that it can and it must concern instead on how through which this right is exercised in the single local truths, to the aim to characterize possible abuses under no circumstances that they can make to question a legal system and at this point unquestionable an operating praxis".

AssArmatori has concluded restating that "margins instead on the negation of the value of a law and on the pretension assigning a "exclusive right" of safety do not exist to the harbour workers, disowning the marine professionality of, proven also from course professional the particularly accurate ones and recognized to international level, let alone from the fact that in these functions the marine ones are perfectly qualified to take part also in navigation".