The competitiveness of the Italian naval flag is threatened by the 'extra costs associated with regulations for energy transition" and "problems daily life arising from a bureaucratic machine that does not find feedback in other European countries». The alarm for the possible thinning of the consistency of the Italian fleet, by 'a movement of the ships of national shipowners under flag of other States, including Community States', was the launched by the president of Assarmatori, Stefano Messina, in Occasion of today's assembly of the association that adheres to Conftrasporto-Confcommercio and which brings together Italian shipowners, European and third countries that operate regularly in Italy.

Opening the event, which took place at the Grand Hotel Parco of the Princes of Rome, Messina addressed directly to the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, Present at the assembly: "Lowering the Italian flag - has affirmed the president of Assarmatori - means lowering a An important part of the Italianness of the world, it is a Surrender of sovereignty means questioning a substantial part of Italian maritime occupation, move Abroad, decision-making centres on which the Procurement, the services carried out today by Italian companies». Touching chords dear to Salvini, and much more to the first Minister Meloni, Messina recalled that "soon our Country will be called upon to implement what the European Commission, or extend the benefits provided by our Aid scheme also for activities carried out on vessels which They fly European flags. At that point - warned the president of Assarmatori - shipowners could opt for other flags, that guarantee shipping companies a bureaucracy simple, intuitive, modern and digitized, immediate in answers and above all marked by pragmatism".

"A work of structural simplification - he continued Messina in his report to the assembly - is no longer postponable and is feasible at no cost, while the excess of Bureaucracy has a cost, including in terms of loss of competitiveness. The motto of this government is "I do not disturb those who work" and for this we expect a lot. We want to preserve the Italian flag but we must be put in the best conditions to compete in a sector, such as that shipping, which is by definition international».

Referring to the issue of maritime employment, Messina Underlined that "in our sector there is room for New workforce, we need it. However - he denounced - Enlistment procedures are time-consuming, costly and cumbersome, with the consequence that young people look with greater interest elsewhere'.

The president of Assarmatori also focused on the Issue of standards for reducing fleet emissions: "Italian shipowners - said Mesina - are ready to do their part, but the rules dictated by the European Union on the subject of state aid to benefit from the €500 million allocated in the Complementary Fund to the PNRR have imagined investments in technologies that do not exist or that, if they exist, involve the use of fuels that are not yet available. The limits Territorial and temporal did the rest, given that for many Types of ships European shipbuilding is no longer able to build."