Assiterminal, despite the crisis of government the measures for ports must not be postponed



Assiterminal wants assurances on the continuation of regulatory projects, including in particular those that will have a direct impact on ports and port operators, which were initiated by the executive led by Mario Draghi, the government remissionary despite not having been formally disconfident. "There are works," said the director of the association of Italian port terminalists, Alessandro Ferrari, who directly impacted the ports and their connective capacity for the realization of the project and to finalise the projects. the bandes ".

The demands of Assiterminal have been several long since the competitiveness of Italian ports and their operators can be developed, starting with the dredging activities which, Ferrari specified, must be intended as an activity. functional to ordinary maintenance. For Assiterminal, it is also necessary to assign substance to the word "interoperability", exiting from local logics and really putting all the institutional actors in the network and not, just as it is necessary to put in place measurable incentives to act on the fares of rail transport, the use of infrastructure and on targets of incremental volumes. The association also said that energy sustainability should also be the subject of potential public-private partnerships both to adjust the operation of benches and to be attractive and competitive towards customers. shipping, with costs and in appropriate times, and it should also be accompanied by the resumption of passenger traffic with effective and exhibit financial rebalancing measures.

" We need to finally see operational a regulation on concessions that is consistent with the innovations that will result from the decree law, strengthening the coordination and supervisory activity of the Directorate General of the Ministry : A state of the state is obliged to do so in the overall assessment of the country's strategic infrastructure concessions. "

Among the stresses of Assiterminal is also that of working to ensure that the fund for the early retirement of the workers of the port enterprises initiates its formal procedure on the basis of the proposal of ministerial decree submitted to the associations datorials and union workers who subscribe to the Ccnl of port workers. "There will be, then-Ferrari-time and way of honing criteria and perimeters ; just as you have to work synergistically for a new national project that will develop a greater awareness of training, security, retraining," he said. of the operational staff and the identification of processes for the insertion of new professional figures. "

The final request of the association is to have a clearly identifiable and competent political counterpart for the sector, with which to be able to engage in dialogue and from which to obtain real answers : "We have and will need to be in need," Ferrari said. prepared interlocutors (as some with whom we have "navigated" to date have proven themselves, and we hope they can continue in this path) with effective proxies and able to make a synthesis together with the ministerial structures that will lead these processes ".