Mariella Amoretti has temporarily taken over the leadership of the Italian Shipowners' Confederation waiting for the general council of Confitarma choose the name to be proposed as a new President at the Assembly of the Swiss Confederation called to confirm or reject the designation. The awarding of the guide pro-tempore to Amoretti, as established by the Statute of the Confitarma, was announced on Tuesday by Mario Mattioli, now in his last day as president of the Confederation being - as Mattioli himself recalls in a letter sent to the members and directors of Confitarma and to the Confindustria - 31 October 2023 «the date set up a year ago by the Board of Arbitrators of Confindustria for to get to the election of the new president of the confederation."

In the letter, Mattioli recalls the steps taken in the last few years. months to arrive at the designation and then the election of the new President of Confitarma, specifying that, "thanks to the availability of the latest past presidents Nicola Coccia, Paolo d'Amico and Emanuele Grimaldi to form the commission of designation, in agreement with the Council and the valuable contribution of our structure and its director, as of Since last May I have prepared everything necessary so that this important step could be taken. The well-known recent events, however, - Mattioli recalls - have prevented the process from being perfected, making it necessary to Another round of consultations, as decided by the last Council of 24 October last'.

In the letter, Mattioli also took stock of the the last six years under his presidency, during which - he specifies - "Some critical issues were encountered. The splitting of the 2018 and the birth of AssArmatori - he recalls - gave rise to a A double voice for the demands of our sector, which is often dystonic Because in order to justify dualism, it is also necessary to point out diversity, and that didn't help with politics and Institutions that have always been accustomed to having a single voice. We learned, if need be, that one plus one In this case, it's not two, it's almost zero!"

"The years of Covid-19, with effects that none of us would have never imagined," the letter continues, "they did proliferate the on-line meetings that have allowed us, in order to despite the strict restrictions, to continue to do enterprise. However, they have also reduced or eliminated contact which, especially in associations, constitute extremely important moments of confrontation. The Conflict Russian-Ukrainian first and the tension in the Middle East today, with their so many victims, make us live situations that, once again, never before we would have imagined tackling. With an important repercussion on the safety of the seas that our ships sail and a trade restriction that impacts on that freedom of trafficking, which has always been a driving force for the development of the world economy. The major dossiers on international tables, from decarbonization digitalisation, without forgetting, in Italy, the reforms, simplification are epochal, revolutionary but necessary challenges. For some, the path is still unclear and, above all, when the technology to implement them will be usable, but The only certainty we have is that they have already begun and We must be protagonists of this."

Referring to the internal debate within the Confederation and specifying that "in this last period we have news of 'splits'", Mattioli points out in the letter that "if this means a difference of opinion, then welcome: We should have "splits" every holy day! It means pluralism, the spice of all democratic and democratic policies. Lit. If, on the contrary, we all had to respond to a single "dominus", then pluralism would become individualism, where perhaps synthesis is faster. But "We have always made a synthesis and We will always do it, especially when the ideas are different. I hope that in Confitarma pluralism and debate - even heated but frank, constructive and lively, with unity as its objective of the association - is always a constant'.