A delegation of the Union Pilots has met vice-president of the Parliament UE



A delegation of the Union Pilots of Ports (UP) has met vice-president of the Parliament of the European Union, Fabio Massimo Castaldo, to which the priorities of the association are represented times to restate the importance of the pilotage service, only excluded from the liberalization prescribed from Regolamento (EU) 352/2017, which unavoidable garrison for harbour safety let alone of geopolitics of the sea.

In the course of the reunion held on 5 December to Brussels, to which for the UP president Vincenzo Bellomo, vice-president Marco Ragusa, the secretary Ciro Romano and the marittimista lawyer have participated Paolo Malaguti (Law firm Malaguti & Partners), the representatives of the Union Pilots have moreover introduced the project of a trade-union new formation, the Union Marine, that he will have the scope of protecting and favoring the formation and the assistance of the marine staff that is the seafarers. The UP has specified that the initiative is appreciated by vice-president of the European Parliament that, in qualities of expert of the problematic ones connected the navigating staff, already in the slid European legislature had deposited some interrogations parliamentarians in the interest of the marine staff, in reference to the modalities of application in the Member States of the directive (EC) 2008/106 and of the Stcw convention.

In occasion of the encounter the president of the UP has evidenced the necessity "to take part for protecting the marine European Italians and, than during the last few years they have seen to be reduced in minimal percentages embarks to it on the communitarian ships, with the exception of the coming seafarers from Third-country, than - Bellomo has explained - he comes constantly employed from great part of the shipowning world in order to save the cost of the crew list".

Vice-president of the Union Piloti Dubrovnik has emphasized that "it is necessary to proceed to a simplification of the bureaucratic system of abilitativi accreditation of the course, as, currently, is assisted to a imbalance between marine the not Europeans who only acquires without difficulties run to Manila to little euros, while the marine abilitativi Italians firstly are penalized not being able to achieve course in Europe, but in Italy, and to limited places and costs salatissimi".

The Union Pilots, through its delegates, therefore has restated that it will continue with its activity of sensitization of the importance of the pilotage and with the Union Marine will support all the initiatives to protection of the seafarers, having already in program a series of encounters with the members of the Commission Transports of the European Parliament and with the elaboration of a series of interrogations parliamentarians to the new commissioner to Adina Valean Transports.