The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Meridionale e Ionio announced that the meeting of the Local Consultative Commission, provided for in Article 15 of Law 84/94 with consultative functions in the field of labour which, while expressing some observations and reservations of regulatory nature, welcomed the communications of the president of the port authority Andrea Agostinelli regarding the path towards the establishment of the port company pursuant to art. 17 - paragraph 5 of Law 84/94, a provision according to which the provision of labour temporary port service can be provided by an agency promoted by by the Port Authority.

Agostinelli illustrated the situation that has arisen at the end of a long series of meetings with terminal operators and port companies pursuant to Article 16, required in order to set up the pursuant to Article 17, and described the amendments, currently in question debate, which will allow the extension of the validity of the Agency for Administration and Redevelopment of work in the transhipment ports of Gioia Tauro and Taranto, in the whose lists are currently registered 50 workers, pending the can be hired by the company pursuant to Article 17. In addition, the president of the Port Network Authority explained the reasons relating to the opportunity to set up the company pursuant to Article 17 and the rules the draft management regulations of the company that will provide port labor in the event of work peaks.

The meeting was attended by the president of the Port Authority accompanied by the Secretary General, Pasquale Faraone, and by the lawyer Lavinia Strangi, head of the Legal Sector of the institution. For the trade unions, the following participated Vincenzo Malvaso of SUL and Carlo Cedro and Domenico Laganà for the CGIL, while Fabio Castellano represented Fan Forwarding Agency and Antonio Bartuni the International Shipping.