Also which extended critical Fedespedi the tonnage tax to the accessory entrances of the navigation companies



Fedespedi, the federation of the Italian shippers, lines up beside CLECAT and FEPORT in denouncing the distortion of the market of the provoked marine logistics from the regimes of tonnage tax that they would assure a competitive advantage to the navigation companies, thesis rejected from the association of European shipowners ECSA(of 17 and 17 june 2020). "We share and we throw again - the president of Fedespedi, Silvia Moretto has asserted - how much express from CLECAT, our federation to European level, and FEPORT. The Commission - Moretto with reference to the recent delay of the authorization to the Italian International Registry has remembered(of the 11 june 2020) - it has approved of the Italian fiscal measures of support to the marine field having confirmed, therefore, the conformity of the outline of our Country to the European rules on the aids of State. We are not contrary in itself to these measures - it has specified the president of the national Federation of the international shipment enterprises - the marine transports are fundamental for import and the export of the Country and is just guardian the field. But it must avoid absolutely that these mechanisms damage the remainder of the row, firstly operating shippers and terminalisti in the transport by sea".

"The perplexity - Moretto has explained - is in the fact who special the fiscal regime will not be only applied to the essential entrances of shipping linens deriving from activity of marine transport, which the transport of goods and passengers, but also to some closely connected accessory entrances to these Is CLECAT that FEPORT are taken part with a letter to the commissioner for competition Margrethe Vestager. We ask the Commission - it has specified the president of Fedespedi being associated to the demands for the two organizations - to clarify the within of application of the systems of the aids of State: he is fundamental in order to assure conditions of parity to all the operators of the field. This is worth above all for services accessories that are offered also by other sections of the marine logistic chain. In the name of the free competition, we believe that these would have to be excluded from the fiscal mechanism of the tonnage tax".

"We find also in this case - it has added Andrea Scarpa, vice president of Fedespedi and Maritime president of the Advisory Body - than the EU commission has not estimated all the possible ones fallen back on the field of a norm for the marine companies. This decision follows - it has remembered Shoe referring to the recent delay of the exemption from the norms on the competition in favor of the companies of line navigation(on 24 March 2020) - the delay two-month-old makes of the CBER - Consortia Block Exemption Regulation - to which always we have expressed contrary own for the consequences that the exemption from the normative antitrusts places in terms of competition on the market. The marine field - it has emphasized Shoe - goes supported in its entirety, above all in this phase of serious impact of the Covid-19 emergency on the transport goods. All the operators seriously are hit by the crisis and have continued to supply the own essential services: they must, therefore, to be able to operate in a real context of free market".