Left the Italian public port scene halfway through last year, when he left the office of president of the Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Orientale six months before the end of his mandate to take on the role of Group Operating President shortly thereafter engineering Technital, thus returning to the port scene this time private since the group in question is active also in the port infrastructure sector, Zeno D'Agostino is launched yesterday in an invective against the partition Appointment Policy for Secretary-General and Chairman of a port which, he said, "makes no sense" and is "A barbaric custom that is only seen on Italian airports".

As reported by the "Ansa" news agency, speaking yesterday in Trieste at a meeting on the priorities for the port of Giulia promoted by Confcommercio, D'Agostino supported that "if there is one thing that needs to be done in port, it is that When choosing the president, this must be free to choose the secretary general. I am amazed, if not disgusted - he continued - when I read in the newspapers that the one chooses the president and the other the secretary and I remain disgusted because journalists never denounce this thing, they take it as something normal. In Genoa it is the normality. It's something that disgusts me that you can to think that in the managerial management of a port the president does not is free to choose the secretary general. To me - he specified - This did not happen. I've always had the freedom to and I'm happy about it. This thing is very important: it is It is important that there is a very strong trust between the president and the secretary and that the presidents be left free to choose the secretaries". "If someone wants to do the good of the ports Italians - he concluded - in addition to choosing the presidents, you leave them free to choose the secretaries".

Thus ends the rambling indictment of D'Agostino, who spoke of political division of the appointments of the Secretary General and the President, flying over his, nomination. To D'Agostino, who had and has what it takes to to assume the presidency of any Italian port authority, was his last presidency of a port authority, the of the Eastern Adriatic, at the end of 2020 when it was already the 2016 port reform that had assigned the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport the power of appointment of the president of a port authority to be exercised in agreement with the president or presidents of the region concerned. Appointment that previously, pursuant to Article 8 of Law 84/94, by decree of the Minister of Transport and Navigation which chose the president, after agreement with the region concerned, within the framework of a trio of general and proven experts Vocational qualification in the fields of transport economics and port designated respectively by the Province, the Municipalities and by the Chambers of Commerce. Then the last assignment at the top of a port authority conferred on D'Agostino was decided independently by the then minister Paola De Micheli. Also for That appointment, therefore, could be called allotment, so much so that More than with the 2016 reform, the minister was conferred an almost absolute power of appointment where in previously there was a minimum of confrontation on three candidates.

D'Agostino said he was disgusted because the journalists never denounce this thing. We would have liked that four years ago had personally expressed the same contempt for the appointment procedure that had placed him at the head of the of the Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Eastern. Now the disgust is late, even hypocritical.

Bruno Bellio