After the remarks made to the provisions contained in the draft of government law reforming the rules on ports on the occasion of the of the recent hearing at the Committee on Transport, Posts and telecommunications of the Chamber of Deputies ( of 30 June 2026), in the package of amending proposals to the Bill that the Italian Association of Port Terminal Operators will have to send to the same Commission by 28 July Assiterminal will include some themes that he had already proposed during the cycles hearing at the Interministerial Committee for Sea Policies (CIPOM) and which - the association complained - were not implemented in subsequent editions of the Sea Plan.

"We are obviously starting - anticipated the president of Assiterminal, Tomaso Cognolato - from the age-old theme of indexes on in which the fixed portions of concession fees should be calculated and on which, despite a two-year sentence of the Council of State and a recent one from the Lazio Regional Administrative Court, neither the Ministry, nor nor have the System Authorities moved to compensate the higher fees paid by terminal operators on the basis of an incorrect calculation of the 2023 indices that we are still dragging on today." For Assiterminal, the issue of concession fees is part of the however, in a more complex reconsideration and consequent implementation of the general principle of rebalancing rents concessionaires, an issue that the association has repeatedly raised as the cornerstone of the relationship between the grantor and concessionaire, also towards some assumptions, much criticized, of the ministerial guidelines subsequently even more stiffened by the resolutions of the Regulatory Authority Transport.

In addition, Assiterminal will submit other issues to Parliament. Among these, the circumstance in which the terminal operator wants to make infrastructural investments within of SEZ or ZLS areas being able to use tax credits that to date they are only the prerogative of investments in capital goods. "In a public-private partnership and lack of resources - explained Cognolato and the director of the association, Alessandro Ferrari - we believe that encouraging investments in state-owned infrastructure, which therefore remain to the State, through mechanisms that in other EU countries are already implemented, can be a very effective tool, as well as encourage the establishment of consortia for the self-production of energy useful for the needs of the terminals but also, because no, if in surplus, to cold ironing».

Another proposal by Assiterminal - added Cognolato and Ferrari - "will be dedicated to setting the objectives of rail traffic, also differentiated for each area as well as the extent, criteria and modalities determination of the discount on the concession fee awarded to concessionaires who increase traffic from ports: this is to give finally start, as happens only in some ports, to a real and measurable enhancement of incentives on the of rail intermodality".