The President of the Port System Authority of the Seas Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea, Andrea Agostinelli, expressed his satisfaction with the Minister's speech yesterday Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, to the Council EU Transport in Brussels. "Minister Salvini did well - said Agostinelli - that, in search of more on the proposed ETS moratorium, on the occasion of the Meeting of the Ministers of Transport of the Member States in the Council has drawn attention to the possible negative effects of the directive could be generated on some Mediterranean ports, such as Gioia Tauro, also highlighting how much the new taxes harm maritime transport and EU competitiveness, without protecting the environment."

A risk, the one underlined by Salvini in Brussels, of which However, very little discussion was taken at the meeting of yesterday's Ministers of Transport of the European Union and that Clearly, it will now have to be addressed in the light of the first impact on scheduled maritime services, and therefore on ports, of the European Directive which included maritime transport in the EU ETS for emissions trading of greenhouse gases greenhouse effect and which will come into force on January 1 ( of 5 December 2023).