The main intention of the harbour reform of 2016 was to overcome the fragmentation of the Italian harbour system. A result that has certainly not been achieved, indeed. In recent years the degree of disintegration of the national portualità has emphasized and several signals indicate that this trend does not seem destined to stop. One of these is given by the decision of the Council of Ministers to include the port of Gallipoli in the constituency of the Harbour System Authority of the Ionian Sea.

The government must be asked why this AdSP is the only one, together with that of Ravenna, to administer one port, that of Taranto. And evidently, in order to overcome the fragmentation of the national harbour system, paradoxically grown from 41 ports administered by 24 Harbour Authorities of 2016 to the 62 of today under the AdSP, has thought to aggregate Gallipoli to the taranthian port of call.

The Authority of Harbour System of the Ionian Sea considers that with the port of Gallipoli can apply "to manage also a game of first floor in the field of the nautical from diporto and the cruises" and evidences that, with the extension of its territorial constituency, confirmation "an precise strategy of diversification, made even more urgent from the crisis of the steel and from the closure of the plants ex Ilva".

Also the president of Assoporti, Roberto Petri, visiting today in Taranto, has found that "the extension of the territorial constituency to the port of Gallipoli represents an opportunity to develop new synergies and an increasingly integrated programming".

For the mayor of Gallipoli, Flavio Fasano, "the accession of the port of Gallipoli to the AdSP of the Ionian Sea, with the entrance between the 62 steps of national interest, represents for the entire community a reason of pride. It is the concrete premise for a new economic and social development, founded on the synergistic valorization of the nautical from diporto, of the crocieristica and of the fishing within a multifunctional project of wide breath".

If the port of Ravenna felt only, now the Authority of Harbour System of the Adriatic Sea Northern Center can look around, certain of being able to officially put the hands, with the approval of all, on the port of Rimini, rather than on that of Cervia or, why not, on the port of Cesenatico.

Bruno Bellio