Following the approval last month of the hypothesis agreement on the contract of port workers by both the workers and association governance bodies ( of 8 and 8 October 2024), yesterday in Rome, at the headquarters of the Association of Italian ports, the parties have signed the "memorandum of agreement" which constitutes the application guideline for companies and port workers on the different aspects of contract renewal.

Commenting on the signing of the final agreement, the President of the Italian Association of Port Terminal Operators (Assiterminal), Tomaso Cognolato, said that the agreement is the result of "a year of negotiations, of sometimes very heated confrontation, some of which strikes but also some moments of tense dialectic within their respective delegations" which "have finally brought to this moment that re-establishes the centrality of our contract in a context that increasingly needs of stability and the same rules for everyone". "We reiterate the presence - added the director of the association, Alessandro Ferrari - of new elements, in terms of welfare and apprenticeships that open up to tools of modernity even the our sector, as well as an economic balance for the workers who confirm our contract among the most "favorable" (whatever some say) while still preserving a balance on business costs, taking into account the stagnant commercial context For years, as repeatedly reiterated, numbers in hand, from all the associations of the cluster".