Assarmatori, the suspension of the services of Tirrenia is an ulterior outcry of alarm



Commenting the arrest warrant of the marine services from and for the Italian islands announced today from Tirrenia because of the block of the checking accounts of the CIN, the president of Assarmatori, Stefano Messina, has emphasized that "Tirrenia is the first company of navigation to have due to suspend the services of connection between the greater and smaller islands and the mainland, soon - it has added - could follow also other societies since in spite of the letter sent to the government on 25 March no measure is taken in order to support the enterprises that in this month they have lost beyond 90% of the revenues also having continued to support all the operating costs. Indeed, for the truth, these is enough increased". Tirrenia is under responsibility of the shipowning association through the Honored one Shipping, of which he is managing director Vincenzo Onorato, vice-president of the same Assarmatori.

Messina, than today is returned to write to the ministra of Infrastructures and Transports, Paola De Micheli, have specified that "Tirrenia has had to take its decision after the commissioners liquidators of the old one bad company have asked the conservation tillage seizure for the checking accounts of Tirrenia-CIN although they had been date availability to supply guarantees of payment than still had to the society in extraordinary administration. But to beyond the merit of the legal issues - it has specified the president of Assarmatori - it is obvious that to block the social accounts in this moment of most serious crisis of liquidity for the field it means to return every operativity impossible and consequently to block the connections with the Sicily, the Sardinia and the Trembles and to not only prevent the vital flow of goods for the interested populations but for the entire Country".

"The dramatic situation in which the administrators of Tirrenia have found themselves today - has evidenced Messina - it could to short expiration regard all the other shipowners engaged in the management of the fleeting transports and goods on the Italian routes". In its letter to the ministra, Messina remembers in fact that the "comprehensible measures of control of the virologico contagion" have involved for who in March manages the services of connection with the greater and smaller islands "a decrease of the proceeds for the transport of the fleeting pairs to beyond 90% on the correspondent period of last year" and the complete zero setting of the reservations for the summery period, making to lack "that flow liquidity that afforded to the companies to maintain the operating lines in the low season, a traditionally connoted period from the held absence of tourist customers and therefore substantially on the single one mobility of the residents on the islands and the reservations of the tourists".

All this - it has continued the president of the shipowning association - has put the enterprises of the field "in enormous difficulty since, if from a part v'è the requirement to maintain regulating, even if reduced, service of territorial continuity for goods and passengers as well as in order to tackle to the emergency situations, from the other, the enterprises, in absence of the assumption of suitable measures of support by the State, they are not more in a position to facing the engagements assumed towards the market that is to the State and the regions interested whereby exists relationships of convention in being".

In spite of this situation clearly message was exposed to the government in the precedence - Messina in its letter has rimarcato - the lack of compensating measures or however of support to the field "it is confirmed by the reading of the amendments proposed from the government to the text of conversion to I decree Italy Cure still today you deprive of some support to a field still more strategic, in these dramatic circumstances, of that airplane that has already benefitted of measures financial institutions to compensation of the damages endured from the enterprises engaged in the services of general interest". Nevertheless - Messina has remembered - "put into effect instruments exist already (see article 79 of the bill 17 March 2020, n. 18) which we have asked urgent access in the wait that the instruments previewed are realized from art. the 57 of the same one decree". But those that it counts - has emphasized - "it is the timing since the field is able to not to maintain to the operating ships and lines".

Messina therefore has asked ministra De Micheli "to activate with absolute urgency its powers and those of its government in order to guarantee that support of which the Country and our companies to us they have indefectible need in order to ask for the block of the transport operations, block that could happen shortly also and without prior notice aggravating the crisis in which the field already it pours also owing to the structural weakness of some of its greater operators who already today are disabled to continue the activities".