Hundreds of people participated in the flash mob that took place this morning in front of the gate of the port of Gioia Tauro for Draw attention to the strongly negative effects on the port that could derive from the European Directive 959/2023 which from next January 1 will include the transport of within the scope of the EU ETS for the greenhouse gas emission allowance trading in the EU. 'After to have duly sensitized the national government and the Commission European Union, also suggesting shared solutions with other ports involved - explained the Chairman of the Authority of the Port System of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas. Andrea Agostinelli - we wanted to promote a spontaneous demonstration in front of our port gate, which has seen a very high and authoritative participation, with the involvement of top management Calabrian politics, local institutions, parliamentarians, of the productive forces and of all trade unions, during which the entire Region rallied around the port and its workers, trusting that an action transversal and united policy can be reflected at Union level in a prompt "review" of the ETS Directive."

'Directive 2023/959 "Emission Trading Scheme", who must be given credit for pursuing interests in the such as the protection of the environment," Agostinelli said However, the structure of European logistics is of great concern with the risk of a distortive effect in the strategic area of maritime transport. The European institutions themselves are aware of the the risk of relocation of European transhipment hubs, so much so that it has provided for a specific anti-evasion rule which, although substantiates the validity of the risk, does not in any way solve the problem, since it maintains a favor to North African ports in the issue of reimbursement of the emissions produced'.