It is divided into six proposals, some of which have already been represented in recent months to the government, the strategy defined by the by the National Union of Port Enterprises (Uniport) to promote a port-based development of the country. The plan was presented yesterday by the association during the event entitled "The future of Italian ports - End of Balance year and new challenges", held in Rome, in which they took part in the Ministers Musumeci and Schillaci, Deputy Minister Rixi and Chairman of the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Deidda.

The strategy starts with the rectification of the "relevant rules" ETS in the sense of protecting EU traffic (and terminals) who carry out transhipment and non-transhipment activities. penalization of traffic such as Motorways of the Sea. Without new rules - underlines Uniport - our airports are destined to become secondary to world trafficking."

The association therefore proposes to "revise the parameters of Adjustment of state-owned maritime port concession fees to adapt them, also in accordance with the principles of equity and homogeneity, to those used for commercial leases' and to 'promote the integration of transport maritime-rail, including a review of priorities infrastructure manager, rail and with measures to contain the cost of railway shunting in port (in particular compared to the major northern seaports) Europeans)'.

The strategy also provides for the freezing of "the entry into Regulations for the granting of concessions, revise the relevant guidelines in the direction of greater clarity, homogeneity of the methods of application between ports (sometimes also between ports within the of a single Port System Authority), procedural simplification'.

On the subject of the provision of facilities and services to ports and terminals for the supply of electricity to ships from shore (cold ironing), according to Uniport "it is necessary to define management models that are appropriate and consistent with the roles and functions of the terminal operators and companies, so that it can be provided in the expected service times to the vessels, but without burdening the operator of burdens and responsibilities that are not its own'.

Finally, Uniport highlights the need to "include Some professional profiles of port work in the category of "strenuous work"'.

'In order to ensure adequate support for the development of the Country - explained the president of Uniport, Pasquale Legora de Feo - Our sector today needs a systemic vision of the port policies, a full integration of these hubs with the network land logistics, a simplification of the process for the Implementation of the works necessary to compete on the markets and greater homogeneity of rules between the different Port System Authority. Finally, we are asking for conditions able to operate in a competitive environment in accordance with the rules of market, thus removing all those constraints and conditioning that they prevent it."