The president of ASSONAT-Confcommercio, Luciano Serra, asked ISTAT for an immediate revision of the new ATECO codes concerning marinas as - he explained - in the preliminary version of ATECO 2025: the structures dedicated to the marina management activities are improperly included in the macro category dedicated to Others leisure and amusement activities (code 93.29). 'I marinas - Serra recalled - do not carry out activities entertainment, however much they may be economic activities operating in this sector. The marinas provide services of extreme importance under the profile of the public interest and the community of support for maritime and inland waterway transport. For This, in view of their supporting public function the activities of shelter and management of vessels, marinas have always been classified in the ATECO category 52.22.09 "Maritime and road transport support services of internal water." Classification that allowed the regular continuation of port activities during all the the "lock down" phases legislated during the pandemic by Covid 19».

"It is therefore unthinkable," said the President of ASSONAT - that our companies, which have behind them significant infrastructure investments to ensure safety of vessels and actually carrying out their activities at sea and by water, can be equated with recreational and fun. It is even more essential today at such an important time for the economy of the sea with its first Piano del Mare, reaffirming the peculiarities of the and the centrality of the tourist port. For that On 20 February, we have convened the first Member States in Rome. Generali della Portualità Turistica Italiana, a new stage in the definition of a National Strategic Plan 2025/2027 that gives our sector the right recognition».