On the occasion of the visit to Naples and Ischia, which ends today, a delegation of seven members of the Commission for Transport and Tourism (TRAN) of the European Parliament, led by the President Karima Delli, a meeting was held in Ischia prepared by Assarmatori during which there was a comparison on the problems, strengths and prospects of the Short sea shipping also with a view to decarbonisation, infrastructure development and intermodality, in the light of policy objectives European.

To bring the voice of armament, in the panel staged in on board the motorboat Medmar Giulia, Maurizio was present Aponte, general manager of Navigazione Libera del Golfo, Giuseppe Langella, CEO of SNAV, and Salvatore Lauro, president of Volaviamare, all members of the Corto Commission Raggio and TPL of Assarmatori, a working group that includes the almost all shipowners active in the segment in Italy. Among the Speakers also Giulia d'Abundo, member of the board of administration of Medmar, and Umberto Buono, managing director of Medmar, all accompanied by Dario Bazargan, responsible of the Brussels office of the shipowners' association.

Focusing on the topics addressed in the meeting, the president by Assarmatori, Stefano Messina, specified that "the challenges for the shipowning world concern, in the immediate, the development infrastructure and port as well as the route to the decarbonisation'. On the topic of sustainability environmental, the Gulf shipowners have explained to the MEPs investments already made and those that are scheduled shortly for years to come.

Commenting on the outcome of the meeting, Dario Bazargan recalled that 'the European Parliament, in a recent resolution, invited the Commission and the Council to lend particular attention to the specificities of islands and related maritime links in policy-making national and European: we expect, therefore - he highlighted - that these specificities continue to be duly taken into account consideration, in order to protect economic, social and territorial, enshrined as a founding value by the European Treaties'.