The Italian associations of the maritime-port sector have highlighted the need to "guarantee the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport a central role in the strategies necessary for the grounding of the support for the decarbonisation of maritime transport". In a joint note, ALIS, Ancip, Angopi, Assarmatori, Assiterminal, Assocostieri, Assoporti, Assorimorchiatori, Confitarma, Fedepiloti, Federagenti, Federimorchiatori and Uniport explained that "the draft legislative decree that will be implemented in Italy the European directive that has amended, after more than twenty years, the Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading System in the Union, with the inclusion of maritime transport in the ETS regime, does not hold, in the unanimous opinion of the associations, adequately account of the need to maintain the of Porta Pia the prerogatives aimed at defining policies Maritime. This also by asserting the deep skills matured in the now twenty-year implementation of the support actions to the Motorways of the Sea (as well as to intermodality rail-sea) and the recent experience of the most important scheme of aid for the renewal of fleets matured in Europe".

In the note, the associations denounce the absence of the ministry led by Matteo Salvini in the forums where discussions and decisions are made the distribution and allocation of the revenues deriving from application of the EU ETS: 'in hearings parliamentarians who have been held in recent weeks at the Chamber of Deputies and in written contributions deposited in the Chamber of Deputies and in the Senate - they underlined - all stakeholders have highlighted, with concern, a substantial absence of the MIT at the Consultation table where the competent ministries proceed the allocation of resources generated by the EU ETS. Nor Even more alarmingly, a breakdown of funds in favor of the MIT, a distribution that has remained simply under the responsibility of the Ministry of the Environment and the Energy Security and the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy».

"As is well known," the note continues, "in the sector the ETS should be intended to support the Decarbonization through consumption support interventions alternative fuels, support for the Sea Modal Shift and the renewal of fleets and port facilities. The first area of appears to fall within the competence of the MASE which has all the necessary technical knowledge. On the contrary, the remaining actions provided for by the European standard are undoubtedly subject to the definition of appropriate maritime policies in the attributed to the MIT, which makes use of undoubted expertise also matured in constant dialogue with all stakeholders. The absence of an actor aware of the dynamics of this delicate sector and the lack of dedicated funds at its disposal risks significantly reducing the efficiency of the expected by the market and by society".

"In this context," the note concludes, "the associations hope that the members of the 8th, 4th and 5th of the Senate and VIII, XIV and V of the Chamber of Deputies, calls to provide the Council of Ministers by the next 30 July their authoritative opinion on the draft legislative decree, can highlight to the Government the need to amend the text of this draft in order to ensure the necessary tools to ensure that the so that there is an adequate correspondence between what is generated in financial terms by maritime transport and how much effectively made available, in the same sector, in resources needed to support the measures envisaged by the Union. Net of the risk of failure of the policies of reduction of emissions, the competitiveness of the most large European market of Motorways of the Sea, connections with the islands and cruise services".