The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport shall use the funds deriving from the EU ETS taxation system, the EU emissions trading, for investment in infrastructures and new equipment for port companies. The request was made today by the new president of Assiterminal, Tomaso Cognolato, in his speech at the assembly public sector of the association, which represents 88 companies terminal operators, which took place in Rome. In his report, which we publish in the "Forum of Shipping and Logistics", Cognolato also highlighted that port undertakings should have the opportunity to to join a consortium for the self-production of renewable energy under the guide of the Port System Authorities.

In his greeting to the assembly, the past president of Assiterminal, Luca Becce, focused on the relations between companies and politics: "Our entrepreneurs, those who we represent, those who make the DNA of Assiterminal - he explained - do not ask politics and institutions for favors or Shortcuts. They ask for choices, they ask for strategy, which allow those who believe that ideas and planning, the social function of the company, can be in the economic competition for the opportunities they represent for the general interest, which is and must be compatible with the profit that each company owes pursue. This daily practice that we have brought to life in the our action, has allowed us to express clear positions on events that, although located locally, had and have a general function and could and can represent models negative generals. We were thus able to take positions clear, for example - specified Becce - on the distortions that a local model of port management could produce, starting from the discussion on the Port Master Plan of the Port Authority of Genoa and Savona. Sprains that damaged and damage the the very function of port industry, an industry that feeds a national market when not international and which, therefore, cannot be governed with localistic instruments that contradict its fundamental function. And the Genoese events, net of any assessment of a criminal nature, which is not our responsibility - noted the past president of Assiterminal - tell us how much that approach may be negative for the port industry, confusing the objective need for relations between the institutions and the companies, with the uncritical patronage of some particular interests. Read, for example, that an authoritative exponent of the institutions may think that "it is not important what kind of goods are moves on a concession, but it is important that those who are happy moves it" hurts those who think, like me, like us, that the commodity balance of a port, enshrined in zoning consistent with the PRP and translated into the concessionary acts and the consequent business plans, that this virtuous process contained in the law 84/94, is essential to promote the proper development of private interests by ensuring healthy competition between operators and keeping the general interest at the center."

"For these reasons," Becce continued, "we have always asked that the management of the port move in consistency with the economy to which each port is connected and which Feeds. For these reasons we shared that document in the 2015, so rich in strategy, represented by the National Strategic Plan for Ports and Logistics ( of 6 July and 7 August 2015, ed.), which informed the Delrio reform, but whose innovative effects were nullified both by a weakness of politics, unable to overcome localistic resistance, both by the wicked and hasty reform of Title V of the Constitution of 2001".

"The consequence of all this - underlined Becce - it has produced the failure of an idea of port governance. It has thwarted the timid process of the amalgamations of the Authorities Dockers, remained only bureaucratic and thus unable to produce any result either in the sense of harmonization of tools so fundamental for the correct competition in the sector (two elements above all: work and concessions), but not even to optimize the management of the workforce and functions... You really don't have to go any further on this path".

In addition, the past president of Assiterminal, which led In the last seven and a half years, the association has dwelled on the issue of the renewal of the collective agreement national port authorities: "right on the front of the CCNL, in the end of my mandates - said Becce - I am witnessing the most bitter of events. In my way of being, positive to the limit of naivety, I have always thought that, beyond the claims and negotiation logics, the results that in years that separate us from 2000, the CCNL has led to the and port workers should have been the factor that would avoid any dramatization of the negotiation confrontation. The salary levels guaranteed by the combined CCNL and decentralized bargaining, the most widespread of all sectors thanks to the CCNL system that enhances its function; the spread of stable work and temporary contracts indeterminate; the system of trade union relations; space for the safety and training (the port area is one of the most important few, if not the only one, to have regulated Article 49 of the legislative decree 81 with the establishment of the site RLS already since 2008....) Here, this is the heritage of facts resulting from a positive relationship between employers and trade unions during the course of seven renewals, often closed before the expiry of validity. The difficulty of renewing the CCNL we are witnessing the dramatization that we see operated by the trade unions - accused Becce - are risking significantly mark the situation. Just in a phase where subjects with conflictual approaches try to assert themselves, which live on antagonism, in tune with the dark times that we live in and that I described earlier. Approaches that cannot be defeated descending on the same ground as theirs, but claiming the great work done in these decades. For this reason, after so many years of relational and negotiation experience, allow me to make an appeal to the trade unions to abandon this conflictual drift. We have been at the table, changing our proposals and our availability. May reason and the will to defend and develop the CCNL. Do not encourage distortions about the history of this negotiation and employer behavior".