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The Federation of the Sea to Turin in order to restate "the absolute necessity to develop the Italian infrastructural system"
The infrastructures - the organization emphasizes that represents national the marine cluster - are a fundamental factor for the competitiveness
December 4, 2018
The Federation of the Sea, organization that reunites the majority of the representations of the Italian marine field, has yesterday participated to the manifestation of the enterprises for the Tav, held to the OGR - Workshops Major overhaul of Turin, in order to carry with its general secretary Carlo Lombardi the support of the marine cluster to the initiative launch from Confindustria, to which 11 confederal organizations have joined also others.
In a note the Federation of the Sea has remembered that it supports "the absolute necessity for a long time to develop the indispensable Italian infrastructural system in order to connect our Country to the remainder of the world. The infrastructures - it has emphasized the Federation - are a fundamental factor for the competitiveness, in a Country as import of raw materials and exporting large Italy of manufactured products, for a total of 619 million tons in total, that it uses the marine way for 79% of the goods imported and for 80% of those exported, pairs to a total of about 500 million tons. Without to count that the total volume of the transactions with foreign country relative to the marine transport of goods and passengers is pairs to 40% of the interchange total of all the services of transport and grazes 13 billion euros. A efficient and modern infrastructural system is essential for our logistics and the shipping".
Remembering moreover that "the gap logistic of our Country is quantified in 70 billion euros per year because of the weakness of our infrastructural system", the Federation of the Sea has explained that own participation to the manifestation to Turin, with the Italian Confederation Shipping (Confitarma), has been time "to restate the importance of infrastructures, to leave Turin-Lyon beginning from", and "to ask the government to put into effect those choices connected to the great works that are absolutely necessary in order to assure competitiveness to the Country".
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