The Italian Shipowners' Confederation calls on the government to extend to ships built or modernised in shipyards the application of the economic resources provided for in the Plan for investments complementary to the National Investment Plan Recovery and Resilience as - Confitarma explained in a note, highlighting that these resources could become a driving force for Important development - the restriction on the use of construction sites only "effectively excludes a large part of the fleet operated by national undertakings'.

"The first decree," the Confederation noted, "does not achieved the desired results because it contained requirements excluded, first and foremost the geographical constraint to the construction, refitting and fleet utilization, which no other country European Union had adopted in their respective measures of incentives for fleet renewal. Decree-Law 59/2021 allocated significant resources for armaments so-called 'green ships' to pursue the objective of "Environmental protection", as clearly specified by the EU Commission in Authorisation Decision C/2022/8247 of the measure. National shipping companies are strongly willing to seize this important opportunity, but the the majority of them are not eligible for the incentive as European shipyards have not built the types of market demands'.

"We hope that the government will seize the the opportunity to give a concrete change to an instrument which can represent, indeed, a driving force for the transition of the fleet with important repercussions for the country and employment. Confitarma, which represents 70% of the fleet calls on the government to intervene to remove the geographical constraint on the construction and refitting of ships, as well as to raise incentive rates up to the ceilings European guidelines (CEEAG and GBER) and postpone the currently set for 2026 for the conclusion of the interventions'.