Rixi tells Rixi to hurry up and, finally, launch the reform of port governance

Rixi urges Rixi to launch the long-awaited reform (from both sides) port governance.

Each of us, at least once in our lives, has exhorted ourselves to hurry to accomplish something that we should have led to long term. However, we only occasionally admit publicly that he had not done what had already to be done. It is almost never done by those of us who have a managerial or public. Today it is one of those rare times.

The Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, announced that he had presented, together with the MEP Anna Maria Cisint, a document for the defense and relaunch of the Italian maritime-port industry in the context of motion, which was voted on and approved this weekend in Florence at the congress of the League. Rixi has specified that the motion focuses on the need for a reform of port governance, with the aim of overcoming the bureaucratic inefficiencies and ensure a strategic direction for the maritime system.

The motion of the Northern League Rixi therefore urges the deputy minister Rixi to launch the reform of port governance, an important updating of the governance system of Italian ports whose necessity has been highlighted, already at the time of the of the installation at the helm of the Ministry of Infrastructure and of Transport at the end of 2022, by Minister Matteo Salvini and his deputy Rixi. Salvini, after being photographed at his new desk ready for the new challenge, little has been interested in the issues of his competence, evidently eager to other roles considered more central to the action of government, such as that of Minister of the Interior. It doesn't look like a It is the case that this weekend at the Lega congress was presented a proposal to reinstate him at the Interior Ministry. A proposal that, obviously, Salvini said he could not avoid taking in consideration and of which - he announced - he will talk both with the current holder of the Ministry of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, and with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

Anxious to take flight to more rewarding shores, almost always Salvini has delegated Rixi to deal with infrastructure and transport. For over two years Rixi has been struggling to replace the minister engaged in other matters and the promise port governance reform has remained a problem for now. promise as well as the appointment of the new presidents of the Port System Authorities which, for the most part, are now directed by extraordinary commissioners having expired on mandate of several presidents. The tour made in the last few years weeks from Rixi visiting several Italian ports seemed to many a way to make it clear that in any case, in the meantime, the Ministry of Via Nomentana is interested in their problems and that it is working to solve them.

Problems that, in the motion presented this weekend, Rixi identifies in the fragmentation of governance, in the international competition and in the stringent European regulations that - underlines the deputy minister - "risk weakening the competitiveness".

"Italy - Rixi and Cisint point out - must return to be a protagonist in the Mediterranean, defending its assets strategic and investing in innovation and sustainability. Harbours like Genoa, Trieste and Gioia Tauro must be put in the conditions to compete on equal terms with the large European hubs and International. It is a challenge that concerns not only our industrial system, but also the security and autonomy of the country. On the shipbuilding front - the deputy minister further observes - The growing demand for cruise ships has generated new and important orders for new generation units, intended for to the main Italian shipyards, in particular to the Fincantieri. Increasing production capacity requires, however, that this growth is accompanied by adequate processes of compatibility, especially in relation to impacts economic and social issues in the territories involved. In this context, Technological innovation plays a fundamental role: focusing on quality and excellence requires significant investments from part of the company and, at the same time, makes it essential to enhance the work resource, promote training courses, support the development and the creation of skills on the territory and adapt the production models to a greater respect for the balance socio-economic aspects of the communities in which the activity is established. This implies a more careful and systematic application of responsibility social by management".

Rixi's message to Rixi is clear. It is a case of self-awareness.

Bruno Bellio