On the occasion of today's conference at the Congress Center of the hotel Domina Zagarella in Palermo organized by the Association National Mooring Groups and Boatmen Italian Ports (Angopi) on "Maritime infrastructure: works and services for the security in ports", the association highlighted the need safeguarding the continuity of the production chain in Italian ports and the need for this identity is not interrupted. A continuity - specified the coordinator of the conference, Sergio Maria Carbone, professor emeritus of the University of Genoa - who "can be guaranteed even in the presence of service providers differentiated but that are coordinated and respectful of all needs present in the port operation'. On the sidelines of the conference Angopi specified that "in short, the problem of coordination that can only be thought of within a national direction, a direction entrusted to an institution that has the character of statehood. The theme is then to combine the market with intervention and interest public'.

The president of Angopi, Paolo Potestà, has also raised the question of the need to adapt port facilities and infrastructures to future needs And to the challenges of the market: "The impressive size that They are hiring our carriers - he noted - makes essential to adapt the docks that must have characteristics responding to rising seas. About this road we are convinced, ready to bring our contribution to ministerial tables'. Resources to invest in the ports spoke in his speech the president of Assoporti, Rodolfo Giampieri, according to whom 'the PNRR and the funds structural offer us the opportunity to catch up of the times'.