The Port System Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea has joined the Observatory as a new member National Protection of the Sea (ONTM), an independent body that promotes the enhancement of the sea resource for the benefit of the Country System. "Joining the ONTM - explained Federica Montaresi, extraordinary commissioner of the Port Network Authority who has joined the of the ONTM Strategic Committee - represents for us an opportunity for comparison and sharing with others public and private stakeholders to build together a path of enhancement of the sea resource from every point of view, economic, environmental, social and cultural in the name of an innovative approach and synergistic. To be the first Port Authority at national level to join to the Observatory is a source of pride and strengthens the link between the Port Authority and other institutions to further promote projects that can enhance our territory, while contributing to the enhancement of the entire Cluster Sea, a strategic asset for our port system and for the development of the country".

"The adhesion of the Port Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea to ONTM - commented the president of the National Observatory for the Protection of Mare, Roberto Minerdo - reflects clearly and unequivocally how the public and private systems must not only but can collaborate in a synergistic way to face the different challenges that today await the country: the digitization of the sector, the sustainable economic development and defense of the marine environmental ecosystem".