The Genoese shipping agents urge the appointment of the President of the Ligurian Sea Port System Authority Western, the body that governs the city port as well as that of Savona-Vado Ligure. Since the middle of last year the Port Authority is headed by an extraordinary commissioner, the rear admiral Massimo Seno, and by an extraordinary commissioner Deputy Chair, Alberto Maria Benedetti, who took over the position of extraordinary commissioner to Paolo Piacenza, current secretary of the Port Authority, who had been appointed to September 2023 following the resignation of the President of the Institution Paolo Emilio Signorini who had accepted the appointment as CEO CEO and General Manager of the Iren Group and that he was subsequently arrested as part of an investigation for corruption relating to events that took place when he was president of the Port Authority.

"We have the feeling - explained president of Assagenti Genova, Gianluca Croce - to walk on the thin line between a future of strong revival of the traffic of the port of Genoa and a stagnation that inevitably leads to the decline. For this reason, the time factor in choices cannot being, and certainly is not, an independent variable anymore. With all the esteem for the valuable work that the two commissioners are carrying out - continued the president of the association of shipping agents - it is not acceptable that from more than the most important port system for the economy the one that manages the ports of Genoa and Savona, and through which about 35% of all traffic passes container of the country, and headless. The commissioner's powers, by law and in fact, they are limited to ordinary administration and the port of Genoa, on the other hand, needs definitive and in terms of regulations, concessions, management and on the recovery of spaces, on issues apparently set aside such as the fate of the steel areas. The speed with which the geopolitical, economic, and route framework of trade by sea, does not allow for hesitation or Referrals. Considering that the upcoming municipal elections will polarize the attention of politics, it is necessary and The choice of the new president can no longer be postponed of the Port System Authority to which to entrust in a key managerial the helm of the port".

The president of Assagenti also urged "a "almost daily" real-time clarification on the timing of major works that directly or indirectly the port" which - he specified - "is connected to the appointment of the president, but it is still necessary immediately. It is even more so - he explained - for us shipping agents that we must communicate to our principals when the dam will allow the entry of large container ships, when economically viable trains will arrive at the quay, when the Terzo Valico will be operational and whether the port of Genoa will be guaranteed multifunctionality. As port operators - concluded Croce - we are ready to roll up our sleeves and collaborate on everything and with everyone. But the market needs certainties. Not tomorrow, and maybe not even today. Yesterday."