Pasquale Legora de Feo, proposed twenty days ago as new President of the Board of Directors of the National Union of Companies Portuali (Uniport) which has collected the indications received from the Committee of Wise Men, today in Rome was elected unanimously in charge by the assembly of the association of the logistics world port to which companies operating in the major ports adhere Italian, with over 4,500 employees and an aggregate turnover of around 1.5 billion euros

Legora de Feo, president and CEO of the terminal CO.NA.TE.CO and Soteco of Naples, takes over from Federico Barbera, outgoing president who for many years led the development of Uniport and to which went the applause and thanks of the new President and of the whole Assembly for the work done.

To support Legora de Feo in its work there will also be the vice presidents Ignazio Messina, Edoardo Monzani, Antonio Testi, Vito Totorizzo. Deputy President will be Fabrizio Zerbini, while Federico Barbera was appointed honorary president.

Specifying that among the priorities of his mandate there will be reform of procedures for granting concessions terminal and for the determination of fees, Legora has recalled that "at the end of December it was finally issued the Regulation for the granting of concessions, to which it has followed by the recent issuance of the Guidelines for detailed rules for the application of the Regulation itself. The first judgment of the harbour and associative world - the neo has specified president of Uniport - it was definitely not positive. The impression is that the procedures are very complex and cumbersome. As regards concessions already existing, it seems urgent to insist on the work aimed at revising the system of annual indexation of concession fees State-owned'.

Legora has also indicated among the priorities the relationships with The institutions in view of the announced reform of the Port legislation: "In view of this important reform - he explained - we will work so that a Strengthening the role of representative port operators of the main vocations of the individual ports, which is not only consultative, but also participation in the decision-making phase, at least on the major strategic issues for the development of ports as ad example those of the Port Regulatory Plans or the Documents of strategic planning, planning acts for which They must provide for specific obligations in the reform for Port System Authority (and maximum and binding times) for adoption and possibly leaving only advisory tasks with regard to other acts'.

Other issues to be addressed will be relations with the Authority of Transport Regulation and work-related issues harbour. "We intend to carry on - said Legora - the Comparison that will open within the year with the organizations trade unions for the renewal of the National Collective Agreement of Work in the sector, after a careful comparison with all the associates, to grasp the needs and specific proposals to which to respond to within the new contract. Between the points qualifiers on which to be protagonists I certainly insert those training and safety of workers with the contribution active EBN Ports of which Uniport is a constituent part. Again, you will have to be an active part in the improvement of the decree establishing the Exodus Fund aimed at supporting and Incentives for early retirement of employees of to this end, making every effort to obtain the Regulatory recognition of the qualification of wearer A specific profiles and specific job figures'.

Finally, Legora de Feo focused on the themes of cold ironing, or on the installation on the port docks of installations to allow ships to connect to the electricity grid of earth, and on dredging: "They do not yet exist - he noted - precise and definitive indications on different aspects of the complex and Delicate theme of cold ironing. Times and methods of Realization of connections between the port and the electricity grid national; Timing and methods of realization plant engineering in the port and in the terminals; How to organization and management of the connection service with ships; Charging; These are all issues which have been discussed by a few weeks. Uniport participates in these working groups and wants to be an even more active and proactive part with the aim to achieve solutions that allow all companies to offer its ship-customers adequate services, at low cost, according to methods of organization of the service that take place account of the specific port and business realities. Another issue on which to take action - he added - for us is that, very important, of the dredging of the seabed of the ports. Despite the recent approval of new environmental standards that should have facilitated the streamlining of approval and execution of dredging, large remain difficulties in carrying out interventions deepening of Italian ports or even simple maintenance'.