Assiterminal asks the government "a decided reversal for march and a clear determination" in approaching the harbour field



The Italian Association Terminalisti Harbour (Assiterminal) has sent to a opened letter to Paola De Micheli, minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, denouncing a "by now constant series of provisions - the president of the organization has explained, Luca Becce - that they stretch with their effects to determine a discriminating scene of uncertainty for the collectivity of the harbour economic world in contradiction with a self-styled political line that instead he allegates of wanting to promote the competitiveness of the logistic system of our Country".

"The category of the terminalisti and the harbour enterprises that operate in Italy - has remembered Becce - the dignity of propeller of the economic development of a field claims for a long time that in its entirety represents about 10% of the GDP of the Country, in which the marine modality it constitutes, in value, beyond 60% of the system of the transports, without but finding reply in a planning of homogenous measures times to contribute really to saying development. On the contrary - it has evidenced the president of Assiterminal in the letter - we find ourselves to having to run after and to stigmatize repeatedly measures that weaken the ability to support themselves on the market and to supply to the shareholders (great or little ones who are) an attractiveness for investments and projections of medium long period, in a context of obvious infrastructural deficit to all not certainly ascribable to our entrepreneurial section".

"Ours, we restate it - the letter continues - is a field "intensive Capitals" with volatil marginality, without a regime of decontribuzione or non-recourse financing of the profits that is hardly able to compete in the international context in which work. The reform of the 84/94 (the law of reform of the Italian portualità, ndr) has remained died letter, the action of our harbour institutions continuous so to being imprinted to a localism without vision (all asks a true cabin for direction). It so continues to lack a homogeneity in the determination the criteria of the canons on the harbour concessions (that they guarantee already a huge return to the state treasury) and, in addition to this, more agencies are always overlapped regolators - in last A.R.T. - that disarticulated modalities and instruments act with that they impose however additional costs without some added value: now an increase wonders for the Ires (us I like to recall the art.3 of the Constitution) that it hits concessionary pure and logistic enterprises indiscriminately (beneficiaries of a mere authorization), equiparando completely different managers and infrastructures for functions, roles and marginality. With these premises our system cannot be competitive"

"We have - it has specified moreover Becce - costs of labor (direct and indirect) clearly greater of 25% respect to other communitarian Countries also with which we are confronted (not to mention those which they operate on the northern side of the continent African), the European Community that asks a various approach in the taxation for the concessori canons with the alea to mainly weigh on the cases of the enterprises, smaller incentives respect to other fields".

"Mrs. minister - she has concluded Becce - Assiterminal, considering to express an opinion shared from the associations of the cluster of the harbour marine logistics, asks, without controversy, a decided reversal of march and a clear determination in approaching our field in proattivo and systemic way, if not she wants that the same one enters structurally in crisis! We restate our availability obviously, as always demonstrated, to bring useful contributions to the system Country".