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Confitarma wishes that the new government turns greater attention to the shipping
Mattioli: it is imperative to preserve and to strengthen the competitiveness of the mercantile fleet of Italian flag
August 29, 2019
Today President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has conferred to Giuseppe Conte the assignment to form the new government, next executive who the president of the Confitarma, Mario Mattioli, wishes will dedicate greater attention to the marine field: "in this delicate moment for the Country, on behalf of the Italian Confederation Shipping, that I have the honor to preside - has asserted Mattioli - callback the attention on the requirement of giving a governance dedicated to the marine section in a position to giving a greater overhong to the economy of the sea, from always a fundamental resource for the Country, than today with beyond 33 billion euros of produced goods and services, he represents 2% of the GDP national total and appoints to a job 500 thousand people almost. The prevailing part of the economy of the sea - Mattioli has remembered - wheel around the marine transport of goods and passengers, and is therefore imperative to preserve and to strengthen the competitiveness of the mercantile fleet of Italian flag".
According to the president of Confitarma, "an organism dedicated to the peculiar requirements of the marine-harbour world is absolutely necessary also in order to assert in our Country concrete a blue economy. In this optical - it has added - Confitarma, the main expression of the Italian shipowning industry, has started for a long time a project for giving a strong and unitary voice to the industrial members of the marine world and being the point of reference for the future marine and logistic strategy to the service of the Country".
"Also in quality of president of the Federation of the Sea, that it represents national the marine cluster - has concluded Mattioli - I consider that, in this moment of particular complexity in Italy, is mature the possibility to create to a political and administrative coordination dedicated to the marittimità of the Country, unavoidable natural resource, economic and geopolitical to value, to protect and to increase in the national interest".
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