Assarmatori expressed his support for the outcome of the meeting between the Italian Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, and the executive vice president of the European Commission for a clean, just and Competitiveness Campaign, Teresa Ribera, the European Commissioner for Energy and Housing Policy, Dan Jorgensen, and the European Commissioner for Housing Climate Action, Wopke Bastian Hoekstra, which took place yesterday in Brussels on the sidelines of the Energy Council, during which Pichetto Fratin, with reference to the application to the ETS, the ETS EU issue, called for a level playing field to be ensured fair between EU and non-EU ports.

"Minister Pichetto Fratin - noted the president of the Italian shipowners' association, Stefano Messina - has grasped in the sign by asking, with reference to the impact of the ETS on the transhipment of containers, fair conditions of competition between European and non-European ports. This is precisely the central point of the an issue that we will also bring to the attention of the European tables. The risk we run today is that of desertification of these activities in Italy, with the consequent loss of jobs and control positions, including geopolitical ones, on crucial hubs of maritime transport. We cannot afford it."

Assarmatori recalled that during the mission of the Next week in the Belgian capital the leaders of the association will meet the vice president of the European Commission, Raffaele Fitto, the Italian group leaders in the European Parliament, the presidents of the Parliamentary Environment and Transport Committees, including the Italian Antonio Decaro, and senior officials of the Commission European in the sectors of interest. "Among other issues - he Messina - we will talk about this very issue and it is It is certainly a positive fact to have a government that, from the Minister of Foreign Affairs Salvini to Deputy Minister Rixi, passing through Minister Musumeci and Minister Pichetto Fratin himself, fully understood the risks and distortions of European climate regulation and is being at all levels to remedy it. Italy must cope on such important and strategic issues".