For the President of the Italian Federation of Shipping Agents, Alessandro Santi, the geopolitical crisis in the Red Sea that has led to a drastic reduction in maritime traffic in the canal of Suez, which these days is almost half the size of the of the one transited in the same period of 2022, highlights the infrastructural and administrative gaps that relegate the Italian ports in the last positions among distant European countries from the ranking - underlined the president of Federagenti - that we would compete in terms of production propensity, exports and position geographic. According to Santi, this is made evident by the performance of Spanish ports: in relation to the latter - ha "The Suez Canal crisis has led to a Remarkable performance in the first month of 2024, with a positive sign +3.4% compared to the same month in 2023. Some ports Spaniards such as Tarragona, Las Palmas and Bilbao have scored Double-digit performance. The best results have been achieved especially from certain commodities: iron and steel (+18.2%), fruit and vegetables (+19.3%), cereals and forestry. Finally, how was it a sharp increase in the number of goods in transit via the containers with +13.8% over 2024». On the Italian side - it has denounced Santi - "unfortunately Italy continues to present itself on the market with connectivity indices of our ports merciless, as well as with logistical performance indexes, relating in particular to our terrestrial connections with the continent'.

"It's time," concluded the president of Federagenti - to start again from the specialization of our systems linking them to the national production chains, from the backbones TEN-T, in an environmentally sustainable and resilient framework that it is the result of a vision that projects us to the next 30 years; thirty years - concluded the president of Federagenti - in which We will not be able to leave the responsibility and the right to others to govern the strategies on our seas."

Santi's reasoning on the deficiencies of the infrastructures that connect Italian ports to markets, one might add A comment on the importance of the Suez Canal for the Italy's supplies and for its trade with abroad, by water, the Egyptian one, which, if interrupted, second and third is the Italian infrastructural deficit, which It is often made apparent when an increase in trading volumes is reflected in the it comes up against the capacity limits of this national system of works.