On the occasion of the second edition of the Sea Resource Forum, in held today and tomorrow in Palermo, TEHA Group, a company controlled by The European House - Ambrosetti which organizes the event in collaboration with the Minister for Civil Protection and Sea Policies and with the patronage of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, presented some proposals to stimulate greater competitiveness of the Made In maritime industry Italy, starting with an acceleration in the simplification process of the National Naval Register, already started with the Malan bill ( of 6 September 2023).

He then noted that the maritime industry is also strongly impacted by the decarbonisation targets and electrification of fleets and that, if LNG ships in Europe are Italy, is lagging behind due to shortages in the storage infrastructure, the need for accelerate the path of infrastructure of ports so that private investments in fleet electrification can determine significant changes in the achievement of targets sustainability. TEHA Group reminds you that to this end, the Plan National Recovery and Resilience Fund allocates 500 million euros to the sustainable fleet renewal by 2026, but to date only 186 million have been allocated and, of these, only 49 million spent, and This is mainly due to several critical issues of the notice, considered "limiting" as it is limited to shipyards and projects planned only and exclusively in the countries EU with a potential 'cost disadvantage' compared to non-EU construction sites. In addition, the implementation times of the interventions are considered too ambitious and ships are excluded and those used on routes that involve the call of a single European port, thus circumscribing the perimeter of the tender. TEHA Group specifies that the Ministry of Infrastructure and Trasporti, responsible for the measure, has been working in recent months to a review of the PNRR project.

Finally, the need to win in the the challenge of hiring seafarers and the creation of an adequate critical mass of workers to support the competitiveness and operability of sectors such as shipbuilding and cruise industry. In particular, notes the need for access to and attractiveness to so-called "trades of the sea" enter the debate of collaboration between the public and private sectors, optimizing the economic resources available, which are currently limited. According to TEHA Group, to reverse this trend, it is necessary to act on the training of workers with dedicated skills through an Academy of the Trades of the Sea and involving the Technical Institutes High Schools and Nautical Institutes in upskilling projects and reskilling of workforce.