A new report on the port work carried out by the Fondazione Accademia Italiana della Merchant Marine in agreement with the System Authority Port of the Western Ligurian Sea, the System Authority Port of the Eastern Ligurian Sea, and the main trade unions. The report complements the responses of the questionnaire administered to the hundreds of workers from the airports controlled by the two Ligurian PSAs: "the work carried out in collaboration with the two PSAs, commissioned by them - explained Paola Vidotto, Director General of the Italian Merchant Marine Academy - is a first step at the national level to understand how in an in-depth and precise way the feeling of who is engaged in this professional field'.

Regarding the results of the needs research conducted in the port terminals of La Spezia and Marina di Carrara, the report points out that from this point of view, the data not only do the results show a positive trend in the lifelong learning, i.e. lifelong learning with the acquisition of knowledge and skills throughout the life, but also values well above the target of 60% desired by the European Union. Virtually all of the of participants (98.2%) of the terminals of the two airports stated that have already participated in training courses in the past. Between those who have already participated in courses in the past training, 87.3% said they had attended in the last year, 76.0% about two years ago and 68.3% about five years ago years ago. The analysis of the trend as a whole - specifies the report - shows an inversely proportional relationship between the previous attendance since the last training event and time passed; in other words, attendance at training courses increases over time.

In addition, virtually all respondents (99.0%) stated that they had participated in courses promoted by the company to which they belong. It is significant – notes the report – that more than one in ten respondents (12.5%) indicated that they had undertaken a training course even autonomously.