"The ministerial commission set up to monitor the procedures for the issuance of state-owned concessions by of the Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea has carried out in-depth work, effectively carrying out all the phases envisaged by his mandate. Documentation in progress also includes recently adopted concession acts by the Port System Authority, on which any assessment will be carried out only at the end of the activities Inspection. A serious and transparent commitment, with the aim of draw up a final report that will be delivered to the by the end of the year". This was said by the Member of Parliament and Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, in the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, replying to the question of the deputies Valentina Ghio and Andrea Orlando.

Referring to the investigation launched by the Genoa prosecutor's office on various strands including the one concerning the adoption of some practices by the Port System Authority of Genoa which saw the involvement of numerous accused suspects of corruption and illicit financing, including the former president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, the former president of the Authority of the Port System of the Western Ligurian Sea, Paolo Emilio Signorini, and for abuse of office the then commissioner Paolo Piacenza, in addition to port entrepreneurs, in their question the two deputies of the Democratic Party had recalled that Giovanni Toti had decided to negotiate the sentence for corruption and financing and that Signorini had also presented request for a plea bargain. Ghio and Orlando had highlighted that since the plea bargain is a matter of a "does not make legitimate the administrative acts related to to the accusations, which could be under the scrutiny of justice administrative for a long time, effectively blocking the activities of the port of Genoa". The two deputies had therefore noted the need to "urgently define which acts and procedures are legitimate and which, on the other hand, are vitiated by illegitimacy to avoid a paralysis of the port's activities that would have devastating repercussions on the economy and the maintenance of employment of the Liguria region" and had asked "what are the Results of the Commission's inspection activity ministerial level, in particular with regard to the regularity of the of the approval process of the related concession practices to the accusatory structure of the investigation by the Genoa prosecutor's office" and "whether rapid deadlines are envisaged for the conclusion of the work of the Commission, so as not to paralyse the work of the of Ligurian ports".

In addition, Ghio and Orlando had asked "if, in the meantime, the Minister questioned does not consider, as far as he is concerned, also in the light of the powers of guidance and supervision with regard to the port authorities, which, following the numerous pages detailed in the investigation of the Public Prosecutor's Office and following the plea bargain of Toti and Signorini, the related practices investigation and, in particular, that relating to Calata Concenter and the thirty-year renewal of the concession of the Bulk Terminal to in favour of Spinelli, should not be annulled by the Port Authority in self-protection, so as to make planning and activities port operations quickly and fully operational".