On the occasion of participation in the assembly of the International Maritime Organization, which opens today in London, the Italian Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Infrastructure Transport, Edoardo Rixi, announced that he had carried out a day of institutional meetings and to have focused on problems of having met with the relevant ministers of Greece, Cyprus and Malta with the aim of strengthening the common front of the countries on the main challenges of the maritime sector, in order to protect the centrality of the Mediterranean in the routes global trade, and to tackle the challenges of global trade with determination. Critical issues of the European Emissions Trading Scheme ETS (Emission Trading System) emissions applied to transport maritime. Rixi reiterated the position of the Italian government, that the ETS is a barrier to global trade, and penalises the competitiveness of European logistics and of the entire maritime industry.

In addition, Rixi announced that he had also met, at the new headquarters of the Italian Embassy in London together with to Ambassador Inigo Lambertini, with a representation of of financial operators in the United Kingdom specialising in infrastructure, to whom he illustrated the investment plans in the major works and transport launched by the government with the aim of consolidate the country's strategic role in connectivity networks European and Mediterranean countries. Rixi then held bilateral meetings with the Deputy Minister for Spatial Development of Ukraine, Shkrum Ivanivna, with the Minister of Transport of Qatar, Sheikh Al Thani, and with his counterpart in the British government, Keir Mather.

Among the items on the agenda of the International General Assembly Maritime Organization there is the adoption of the update of the IMO Strategic Plan for 2024-2029 and the budget and the organisation's work programme for 2026 and for the 2027. In addition, next Friday the assembly will elect the new IMO Council for the two-year period 2026-2027, composed of 40 Meters. In turn, on December 4, the new council will elect its president and vice president.