The Spanish terminalisti ask for being able to participate to the elaboration of the operations plans of the Harbour Authorities



The Spanish association of the harbour terminalisti will ask for being able to participate to the elaboration of the operations plans of the Harbour Authorities. The executive committee of the Asociación Nacional de Empresas Estibadoras y Consignatarias de Buques (ANESCO), met yesterday to Madrid in order to analyze the situation of the field and in order to establish own priorities for the next months, has decided that it will demand an encounter with the future minister of the economic Development of the new government guided by Pedro Sánchez, that has assumed the assignment of president of the executive 2nd june after the government of Mariano Rajoy has fallen as a result of the approval at the beginning of this month of a motion of no-confidence, and with the future president of Puertos of the Estado, the government agency that is in charge of implementing the policies for the harbour field, with the scope to inform them about the main worries of the terminaliste companies. Between these, exactly, the fact that the operations plans are defined without some contribution by the enterprises that manage the docks of the Spanish harbour ports of call.

In particular, the ANESCO will ask the government who the operations plans of the Harbour Authorities are subordinates to the procedures of public information and consultation with the parts interested in the course of their elaboration, so that the economic operators can supply their contribution. The association has remembered that the operations plans of the ports deal important topics as the investments publics, the reduction coefficients of the harbour taxes and the tariff facilities let alone the objectives of the Harbour Authorities and their budgets of forecast.

The association of the terminalisti considers that the current procedure of elaboration of these plans is profitable difficult for the companies, the workers and the citizens to participate actively to their definition and considers moreover that, in application of the current European regulations and on the base of the good practical in matter of governance, it would have to be promoted the transparency and the participation to the approval of these important documents.

Moreover, in occasion of the encounter with the new government, the ANESCO will confirm its proposal to fix to 4%, rather than to current 5.5%, the share applicable to the tax basis of the canon of occupation of the public Federal property of the concessions through which the terminalisti manage the harbour terminals.