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ANCIP and CULMV denounce that the governmental measures do not preview some support to the harbour workers and the marine ones
Marked also the attempt to unhinge the norm on the self-handler to protection of the workers
November 23, 2020

The National Association Companies Harbour Enterprises (ANCIP) has sent to the government, to Assoporti and the unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti a letter, whose contained Port of Genoa (CULMV is agreed with the Company Unica Lavoratori Merci Varie Paride Batini -), in which delays by the national executive and of the AdSP in the debit are complained performance to the previewed measures of refreshment. Moreover in an ulterior document, that we publish below with the letter, ANCIP and CULMV denounce the attempt to favor a revenge on the topic of the self-handler in confront of the art. the 199 parliament that has approved of second.(on 6 July 2020).




Rome, 21 November 2020
Al Minister of infrastructures and the transports
On. Paola De Micheli

Al Minister of the economy and finances
Dr. Roberto Gualtieri

and p. c. Al Prime Minister of the Ministers
Dr. Giuseppe Conte

Al President of ASSOPORTI
Dr. Daniele Rossi

To the National Secretaries of the Labor organizations
FILT CGIL, FIT CISL, UILTRASPORTI

Object: Vibrated protest for governmental nonperformances on you decree implementing legislation COVID 19 and reads budgetary (AC 2790) art. 120. Demand for the most urgent encounter.

Dear Ministers, as a result of the most serious pandemic that has hit our Country, with the most serious repercussions also in the harbour marine section and of the logistics, the Government is taken part with next containing bills measures in support of the field, of the workers and the enterprises. During the iter of conversion of the foretold ones you decree, are brought important improvements of the norms, own in order to answer in positive way to the advanced and supported demands from the labor organizations of the workers and the writing employers and Association that the great part of the job and the harbour enterprises represents. All thanks to the engagement of the Government and the On. them Deputies and Senators who have shown attention and sensibility towards the field.

Unfortunately, at a distance of six months from DL 34 2020, writing must take note, with alive disappointment, than it has not been still emanated NOBODY of Decreti Ministerial and Interdepartmental, previewed from the laws, in order to assign the resources allocated and in order to emanate norms of coordination and performance and distribution of the resources. Up to the present no providence in concrete terms is distributed and it proceeds in not uniform way by single the AdSP, provoking inequalities that they would not have to still sussistere in normal periods and more in a period, as is the current one, of emergency.

The bill 19 May 2020, n. 34, enacted 17 July 2020, n. 77, art. in particular the 199 and s. m. and integrations, send back to the emanation of Decree Ministerial and Interdepartmental, the performance of the benefits:
  • the codicil 1. letter a) that arranges the reduction of the concession canons cannot be put into effect and it is assisted for example to different interpretations of the Presidents of AdSP on the corresponsione of the benefits to the enterprises that have found a decrease of the advanced turnover pairs or to 20%. Some have granted to accounts, others have calculated the benefit in total way (if a reduction of 50%, reimburses 50%), others with justice have calculated the surplus between 20% and 50% and recognized 30% of benefits.
  • The codicil 1 letter b) that it arranges the benefits for the Companies and harbour Enterprises widely is inattuato and also in this case every AdSP proceeds independently. There are cases in which accounts are granted to the enterprises, others are resorted to loans near the Region, as you deprive of resources own and waiting for those previewed from the law, other anchor have not granted some refreshment. Moreover some AdSP calculates in day's works of 2019 (as it is previewed by art. the 199 purposely modified from the Parliament during conversion) also day's works carried out from the interim workers and others not.
  • Not there is trace of the DM of the MIT for the performance of codicils 6, 7 and 8.
  • Not there is trace of You interministerial decree MIT and MEF for the performance of the codicils 10-second, 10-ter and 10 quater.
At last still it has not been date performance to art.199-second of the foretold law 77/2020 (topic on which we enclose a specific note).

Draft, to warning of writing, of a consuntivo indeed desolating for the entire harbour field that would have instead to be dealt, at least with the attention that deserves regarding the completed efforts, and still to complete, for the resumption of our Country.

Instead in the law budgetary 2020 (text AC 2790) art. 120 in the several codicils (on purpose it is signaled that to codicil 6, probably for a misprint, the concessions are cited of which to art. 6 and 18 of law 84/94. Perhaps one agrees "16" and 18 and however it comes newly forgotten art. the 17), NOT FIGURE NO NORM THAT CARES the SUPPORT TO the HARBOUR AND MARINE WORKERS!

Decision that we consider unacceptable and to correct with all urgency by the Government.

Therefore the writing Association, in agreement with the C.U.L.M.V of Paride Batini of Genoa, asks an immediate encounter with the Minister for infrastructures and the transports in order to discuss on the following topics:
  1. Law budgetary proposed in support of the workers;
  2. You decree ministerial implementing of art. the 199 of law 77/2000;
  3. I decree implementing of art.199-second and the controls of the Competent authorities;
  4. Urgency of the nominations of the Presidents of the AdSP in expiration.
  5. Necessity of coordination of the AdSP by the supervising Ministry.
To the encounter they would have to participate, to warning of writing, also the representatives of the labor organizations of the workers, than they read to us in copy.

In all wait the occasion is picked in order to send to all the units that they read to us faithfully yours.




President ANCIP
Luca Grilli



Document ANCIP - C.U.L.M.V. GENOA
on art. 199-second July 2020 reads 17, n.77
"SELF-HANDLER"

The harbour job represents a point of encounter between privatistiche and pubblicistiche disciplines, that it can be better comprised to light of the interests involved in the operation of the same ports.

The port, which government property equipped and functional to the commercial operations of marine transport, has an own market regulated from the 28 special law January 1994, n. 84, instrumental to satisfy interests publics, that is interests of a pluralità of subjects between which Public Administration, declined in Authority of Harbour System and Marine Authority, the harbour workers, the harbour enterprises authorized to the boarding and disembarkation of goods and the marine passengers, carriers, the industrial shippers, enterprises, the societies of economic interest general and, in any case, considered the strategic importance economic that social it is covered by the ports, the entire national collectivity.

The specialty of the ordering of the harbour job resides therefore in the necessity to constantly guarantee a efficient and qualified offer of job against a question not always constant and difficultly expectable.

The pubblicistico interest in regulating and maintaining in associate-economic balance the harbour labor market must be guaranteed from the State by means of the Authorities of Harbour System and, whereby not existing, the Marine Authority.

The "regulated market" of the job in the ports comes substantially put into effect through three members, that is "sottomercati": i) the member of the terminalisti operators (former art. 18 l. n.84/94); ii) the member of the authorized enterprises to carry out operations and servants harbour services (former art. 16 l.n..84/94); iii) the member of the starter (temporary, that is through legal institutes negotiates), of harbour labor (former art. 17 l. n.84/94).

The combination between the aforesaid ones "sottomercati" has found a various declination from port to port by virtue of its history, but also of the conveniences dictated from balances of power between the several subjects of local the harbour clusters.

The best organizational models of the harbour job are based essentially, as photographed and analyzed from the Plans Organic Port (according to the norm of which to the art.8, codicil 3, lett. s-second it reads 28 January 1994, n.84) on a efficient management of the job by the enterprises articles. 16 and 18 and above all of the Pool of former labor art. 17. A relationship between harbour operators, art 16, 18 and art 17, than over the years has consolidated, going to create a model of highly performing the harbour job it is in terms of efficient yield that in terms of safety, but above all flexible and to the vanguard in the times.

The Pool of former labor art. 17 l. n. 84/94, directed emanation and modern redefinition of the Harbour Companies former articles. 110 and 111 cod. nav. presses in 1994, represent the spine of the Italian ports and the unavoidable element of connection in the intermodal chain of the logistics, since thanks to the own high specialization and formation it affords to the harbour system to offer of the optimal services in terms of safety, efficiency, flexibility and returned maximum.

Over the years, with the authorized enterprises according to artt.16 and the 18 of the l. n. 84/94 an only working system in the Italian, agile and really flexible panorama has been created, that it has avoided to the same enterprises to proceed to excessive assumptions, regarding own requirements, risking lay-offs periodicals. Thanks to own functional and organizational specificities, art. the 17 have prevented in the years the uncontrolled precarizzazione of the harbour job.

A strategic importance for all the “System Country”, yield still more obvious from the current situation of serious economic, social and sanitary emergency ingendered from the spread of virus SARS-COV-2, whereby the Pool succeeds to guarantee, without not to put up with of the costs from the social economic point of view, the operating estate of the Italian ports.

The staff of the enterprises art.16 and 18 and above all that highly performing of the art.17 guarantees, inter alia, an elevated standard of safety about the accomplishment of the harbour operations, what that marine the boarded ones cannot make.

Contrarily to allegated how much from some datoriali associations of representation of the shipowning societies, the norm of which to article 199 second of the Bill 19 May 2020, n. 34 do not prohibit the self-handler of the harbour operations to carry out on the ships, but the necessity of rules and clear criteria restates in order to make to stop the exploitation of the marine ones called to operate, as well as in the phase of navigation, also in that of cargo and drainage of the goods. Practical that has been a cause of many accidents, some mortals, since really does not come prepared professional training besides the respect of standard of safety minimums.

These rules are necessary also in order to make to stop the problems of regulation of the market, rebelled for interpretations and various applications of the norm by the Authorities of harbour system, generating meaningful differences between a port and another.

A norm, that which orders the self-handler, therefore, than protects the workers, is marine that harbour, and the entire national harbour system, avoiding that forms of treacherous competition regarding the authorized enterprises are diffused articles. 16 and 17 law n. 84/1994, that is practical ones of social and wage dumping goods in foreign market, circumstances that could determine the failure of the regulated harbour market from many times over cited 28 special Law January 1994, n.84.

In other words, the possibility for the marine carrier, previewed and not prohibited from the enforced law, to operate in self-handler regime cannot, and it does not have, to represent a form of damage of the quality of the operations and the harbour services. A various approach would determine not only dangerous dysfunctions under the operating profile, but also an unjust and inadmissible violation of the principles in competition matter, in damage of the local enterprises, comprised that qualified one to the supply of temporary harbour job.

To this end it appears amazing the taken one of position, even though not binding, of the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market that critical the recent discipline of the activities of self-handler in the ports that safety of the workers, the safeguard of the passengers is assuring and productive and occupational continuity of the enterprises of the field. Amazing above all because ago with a signalling that recepisce, that's it and without conflicting, the requests of the associations of the shipowners.

Besides all this, it is being assisted to Hush, how much emblematic that worrisome, and to a do-nothing policy not justified of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports about the slavish application of that the Parliament of our Republic democratic has, sovereign, legiferato.

It cannot be more assisted unarmed and silenti in front of these soprusi and to these unjustified ones, how much unwarrantable, interferences. The Agencies and the prelocated Agencies, therefore, would have to go to search the distortions of the competition where really they exist. So making they will discover the hundreds of million euro, that is billions of money publics who, over the years, are allocated “elsewhere” and not sure towards the enterprises articles. 16, 17 and 18 of the law n. 84/94. They would also discover whereby have created the true ones “place dominant”, not certainly in the harbour workers who operate on the base of public and equal rates for all the users.

As premised, the specialty of the ordering of the harbour job resides in the necessity to constantly guarantee a efficient and qualified offer of job against a question not always constant and difficultly expectable, all with highest standards of safety.

In this center it is right to restate with force that, in a so dramatic moment as what we are living, the workers of the Italian ports in fact have guaranteed until now supplying of the entire nation, avoiding of the socioeconomic financial ruin.

In order to maintain to these high standards of managerial efficiency and operating flexibility, the Legislator has adopted, in the recent past, some normative actions in order to safeguard the economic estate of the former authorized enterprises art.17 law 84/94 and, consequently, to maintain national the harbour System efficient and competitive.

Therefore it goes immediately put into effect the disposed one of law 77/2020, art. 199-second.
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Savona
The Gioia Tauro Port Authority Management Committee approved the reimbursement of mooring fees.
Gioia Tauro
1.5 million euros allocated
Prologis and Singapore's GIC to form joint venture to invest $1.6 billion in new fulfillment centers in the U.S.
San Francisco/Singapore
The initial portfolio is approximately 380 thousand square meters
The Management Committee of the Port Authority of Genoa and Savona-Vado has taken note of the framework agreement with PSA
Genoa
The update of the Integrated Activity and Organization Plan has been approved.
Hanwha Ocean and ONEX Sign Naval Shipbuilding Agreement
Seoul/Eleusis
The first project in sight is submarines for the Greek Navy
The Antitrust Authority has not opened an investigation into CEVA Logistics' acquisition of the Fagioli group.
Rome
The AGCM believes that the operation will not impede competition or create a dominant position
Singapore's ONE acquires stake in Dongwon Pusan Container Terminal
Singapore
The company operates at the Gammam and Singamman docks of the Port of Busan
EIB finances shore power installation in Rotterdam port
Rotterdam
A loan of 90 million euros has been granted
High-tech exoskeletons to ease the burden on dockworkers in the Port of Livorno.
Livorno
Experiment in collaboration with the Livorno Port Company
Salvatore Lauro, a shipowner from Campania, died yesterday in Ischia.
Naples
He was a senator of the Republic from 1996 to 2005
APM Terminals acquires 49% stake in Vietnam's Hateco Hai Phong International Container Terminal
The Hague/Hanoi
Third phase of construction of Mexico's Lázaro Cárdenas terminal begins
FedEx revenues increased by 8.3% in the December-February quarter
Memphis
Quarterly net income was $1.06 billion (+16.2%)
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London pledges £746 million to renovate Nigeria's two ports, Apapa and Tin Can Island, in Lagos.
London
Agreement between UK Export Finance and the Nigerian Ports Authority
Fabrizio Urbani is the new secretary general of the Port Authority of the Central-Northern Tyrrhenian Sea.
Civitavecchia
Unanimous resolution of the Management Committee
In the fourth quarter of 2025, French ports handled 74.2 million tonnes of goods (+7.2%)
La Defense
UNI/Fermerci reference practices on staff training presented at MIT
Rome
The Council of State has rejected the relocation of Genoa's chemical warehouses.
Rome/Genoa
The AdSP declares itself ready for a technical discussion within the framework of a specific initiative by the municipal administration
FS Logistix and Nurminen Logistics inaugurate a new weekly rail service between Sweden and Italy
Rome
2,500 kilometer route
Hapag-Lloyd signs maritime cooperation agreement with Indian government
Hamburg
Plans to bring ships under the Indian flag and collaborate in the development of ship recycling and Vadhavan port
A project for the digital transformation and technological development of the port of Gioia Tauro has been funded.
Gioia Tauro
Resources worth almost two million euros for the Port Authority of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas
Keel-laying and coin-laying ceremony for a new ferry under construction for ACTV
Piombino
It took place in the Piombino Industrie Marittime shipyard
Touax Container Services increased container sales by 36% in 2025
Paris
Revenues decreased by -5% in the year
In 2024, international seaborne freight traffic reached a record 24.1 billion tonnes
Geneva
New historic peak in dry cargo
Medlog (MSC Group) will acquire the remaining 29% of MVN from Logistics Project Italia
Rome
The operation has been notified to the Antitrust Authority
Greek group Attica Holdings continues its fleet renewal plan
Athens
Purchase of two catamarans for €15 million. Long-term lease of the "GNV Bridge" ferry.
Germany's Arvato has acquired Canada's THINK Logistics
Mississauga/Gütersloh
The company, founded in 2012, is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario.
Banco BPM's €55 million financing to Grimaldi Euromed
Naples/Milan
Partially covers the purchase of the new ship "Grande Inghilterra"
Two new state-of-the-art ship-to-shore cranes have arrived at the PSA SECH terminal.
Genoa
They will be operational from June
Stolt-Nielsen sells 50% of Avenir LNG to NYK Line
Oslo/Tokyo
The company operates in the liquefied natural gas bunkering sector
Only 7% of the workers in the port companies and terminals of La Spezia and Marina di Carrara are women
La Spezia
Costa cancels cruises originally scheduled to sail to the Middle East
Genoa
The company currently has no vessels operating in the region.
In 2025, d'Amico International Shipping's time charter revenues decreased by -29.0%.
Luxembourg
Fourth quarter decline eases
NYK to become sole owner of Norway's Saga Welco
Tokyo/Tønsberg
The Tønsberg company has a fleet of 48 open-hatch vessels
Grimaldi Group's Valencia Terminal Europa will manage the new car terminal at the port of Sagunto.
Valencia
Grimaldi has taken delivery of the new PCTC Grande Seoul
Naples
It is the ninth ammonia-ready unit of the Neapolitan shipping group
The Cagliari-Algeria service operated by Maersk and Grendi will soon dock at the Giammoro di Milazzo pier.
Messina
It will be held on a weekly basis
Falteri (Federlogistica): The consequences of the war in Iran are only in their infancy.
Genoa
There is a dramatic congestion of perishable products in the hub airports of the Gulf, he underlined.
DP World reported record annual operating and financial results
Dubai
In 2025, container traffic increased by +5.8% and revenues by +22.0%
Two additional new Medium Range 2 tankers for d'Amico Tankers
Luxembourg
Exercised options with Chinese shipyard Jiangsu New Yangzi Shipbuilding Co.
Japan's MOL has acquired 25% of V.Ships France
Tokyo/London
The remaining 75% of the capital remains with V.Ships
ICTSI reports record annual and quarterly financial and operating performance
Manila
Last year the group's port terminals handled 14.5 million containers (+11.0%)
Wan Hai Lines' revenue decreased by 13.3% in 2025
Taipei
The company will buy four new 6,000 TEU container ships and two 9,200 TEU container ships.
Observatory on the presence of women in the blue economy sector
Milan
Initiative by WISTA Italy and the Maritime Federation
The first train will depart from the Pordenone Interport on April 2nd.
Pordenone
Ausserdorfer (InRail): We have already received new requests and contracts to increase connections
Triple ceremony for Explora Journeys at Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente shipyard
Genoa
Technical launch of "Explora IV", coin ceremony of "Explora V" and start of construction of "Explora VI"
The Propeller Club of the Ports of La Spezia and Marina di Carrara has renewed its board of directors.
La Spezia
Gianluca Agostinelli and Federica Maggiani confirmed as president and vice president
The Tunisian government decides to start construction of the port of Enfidha
Tunis
52,000 jobs expected to be created
Hundreds of containers of temperature-controlled plant-based food products are held up in the port of Genoa.
Genoa
Spediporto reports it
The La Spezia Freight Forwarders Association has established a terminal freight forwarder section.
La Spezia
The aim is to strengthen the representation and enhance the value of inland logistics.
FHP Intermodal launches rail service from northern Italy to Bari and Catania
Foggia
Initially, two pairs of trains are scheduled to depart per week.
Managing maritime shipments in a scenario made extremely complex by the crisis in the Middle East
Genoa
Botta (Spediporto) and lawyer Guidi suggest how to handle difficulties
The new Norwegian Luna cruise ship will be delivered in Marghera.
Trieste
It is the second unit of the "Prima Plus" class built by Fincantieri
Assiterminal: The EU's port strategy is a success.
Genoa/Brussels
Seas At Risk, One Planet Port, and IFAW are concerned about the proposed regulation's reference to expediting environmental impact assessments.
The first electrical cabin dedicated to the cold ironing system has been completed in the port of Gioia Tauro.
Gioia Tauro
In April, the first connection of a container ship to a mobile socket
Konecranes revenues remained stable in 2025
Helsinki
The value of new orders grew by +9.7%, with a +21.3% for port vehicles
Finnlines' net profit increased by 50.7% in 2025
Helsinki
Revenues up 2.0%
Ravenna has been designated Capital of the Sea 2026
Rome
Petri (Assoporti): its port is a strategic hub for the national economy
Large shipment of ammunition and detonators seized in the port of Ancona
Ancona
He was about to be embarked on a ferry intended for the exclusive transport of passengers
2025 record for the American cruise group Viking Holdings
Los Angeles
Revenues grew by +21.9%
UECC has ordered China Merchants Jinling to build two PCTCs
Oslo
They will have a capacity of 3,000 CEUs and will be taken into delivery in 2028.
Kuehne+Nagel plans more significant staff cuts
Schindellegi
Worsening economic results in the fourth quarter of 2025
Public notice from the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority to select the new Secretary General
Livorno
The procedure is not competitive in nature and no selection process is foreseen.
KKCG Maritime publishes a partial tender offer to increase its stake in Ferretti from 14.5% to 29.9%.
Milan/Hong Kong/Prague
The offer is not aimed at delisting the shares
Norovirus outbreak on second Holland America Line cruise ship
Hong Kong
65 passengers and 11 crew members of the "Westerdam" were injured.
SOS LOGistica, allocating only 10% of the €590 million for road transport to zero-emission vehicles is self-destructive.
Rome/Milan
Texts: talking today about a heavy BEV market that "takes off" remains a mirage
The first U212NFS submarine is being laid down at Fincantieri's Muggiano shipyard.
Trieste
The delivery of the first unit is scheduled for 2029
A new tender has been published for railway shunting in the ports of Savona and Vado Ligure.
Genoa
The tender base amount is 14.8 million euros
China's LC Logistics orders two new 11,000-TEU containerships
Hong Kong
Order with a total value of 236 million dollars
Palumbo Superyachts to build new metal shipbuilding hub in Ortona
Ortona
Concession area in the Abruzzo port
Kuehne+Nagel acquires the road transport business of German firm Lohmöller
Schindellegi
In 2024 they had generated a turnover of approximately 23.5 million euros
Rolls-Royce posts record annual financial performance
London
Revenues increased by 12.2% last year
Fincantieri delivered the ultra-luxury cruise yacht Four Seasons I in Ancona
Trieste
The Navis Sapiens program also debuts with the ship
Nearly 12 million tonnes of CO2 avoided in 2025 for vessels coated with Jotun products
Muggia
Estimated fuel cost savings of approximately $2 billion
In 2025, intermodal traffic handled by Interporto Padova amounted to 381,031 TEUs (-7.5%)
Padua
Record production value recorded
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
A Filt Cgil meeting on port work will be held tomorrow in Genoa.
Rome
It will be held at 10 am in the Port Call Room
Filt Cgil, meeting on the importance of Article 17 of Law 84/94
Rome
It will be held tomorrow in Rome at the Frentani Congress Center
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Shipbuilding's Spring Illusion: Backbone Collapses
(The Chosun Daily)
Russian shipbuilding holding USC designing high ice-class container ship for Rosatom for Northern Sea Route
(Interfax)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
In 2025, the Nola interport handled 2,000 trains
Nola
A 50% increase is expected in 2026
A Livorno port pilot loses his life in a collision
Livorno
The dynamics of the accident are still under investigation.
Study on alternative marine fuels as potential marine pollutants and the effectiveness of response measures
Lisbon
It was commissioned by the European Maritime Safety Agency
The first in-person meeting of the international working group "Cruises & Port Cities" will take place in Taranto.
Taranto/La Spezia
Pisano (AdSP Liguria Orientale): the relationship between the city and the port is strategic, particularly in relation to cruise traffic
G20 merchandise trade trend to fluctuate in the fourth quarter of 2025
Paris
Trade in services is growing
Extension of incentives for rail freight shunting in ports
Rome
Paper (Fermerci): the sector, however, continues to suffer as demonstrated by the overall data for 2025
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