Lombardic (Federation of the Sea): necessary a dedicated ministry or a specific unit for the marine field



"Italy is a poor manifacturing power of raw materials, whose supplyings reach generally by sea, a earth in great peninsular part, with many islands and coastal towns, whose development not would have been in the past, and not would be today, without the print of the marine activities on their social and economic truth". It has emphasized Carlo Lombardi, secretary of the Federation of the Sea, organization that reunites the main associations and Italian organisms of the marine field, taking part today to the symposium "the role of the sea in the national economy and the protection of the marine interests of the Country" that one has held near the Naval Academy of Livorno and has been organized from the CE.S.I. - Centro Studi Internazionali with the support of Marina Militare and the sponsorship of the Municipality of Livorno.

Lombardic it has evidenced that today the marine cluster annually spends almost 20 billion euros in purchases of goods and services and on the whole, the industrial activities of the marine cluster occupy a space of relief in the national, advanced panorama productive to fields consolidated as the pharmaceutics or the assurances.

The general secretary of the Federation of the Sea has remembered that, second the last Relationship on the economy of sea (the V) realized with the Foundation Censis, the value of the assets or services produced from the marine activities, whose entirety is defined by the term of marine cluster, is of 33 billion euros, pairs to 2% of Gross Domestic Product total and to 3.5% of its not state member, with assigned a total occupation of 470 thousand, between direct and indirect.

Finding that Italian is first of all a transformation economy, where the raw materials arrive from outside, generally from other continents, for being tried in semifinished and finished product and therefore destined here to other markets in Europe and the world, Lombardic has asserted that, "seen the weight of the marine economy in our Country, the auspice that the Federation, that it reunites the main organizations of the marine system, restates it is what the institutions can in first request strengthen the Head office for the Vigilance of the ports and marine transport and then to give rise to a dedicated Ministry or a specific unit with coordination powers (Agency or Secretariat of the Sea, for example, eventually near the Presidency of the Council), so that a chain of command very integrated ports to a greater effectiveness in the political adoption and the legislative and administrative performance of the decisions in marine field, and is able to make it in consistent times to the European and international, characteristic standards of this world".