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The harbour operators of the crotonese ask the institution for a regional harbour Agency
Sped up the abrogation of I decree that it has extended the administration and the management of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro to the ports of Crotone and Corigliano
June 12, 2012

The harbour operators of the crotonese have written letter-name to all the representatives of the local and regional institutions, that we publish below, invoking the release of "a situation of stall that - they have denounced - are literally sinking the entire Jonian portualità" and asking, "as before and urgent measure, the immediate resolution, in order to throw again in the short period and the strategic perspective the calabrian economy, of administrative pacts and constraints that tie the ports calabrians of Crotone and - eventually - Corigliano Calabro, to the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro".

In particular, the crotonesi operators have asked "that the Municipality, the Province and the Chamber of Commerce deliberate - singularly or collectively - in order to demand the abrogation of decree ministerial 29 Decembers 2006 with which has been sanctioned the territorial extension, the administration and the management of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro to the ports of Crotone and Corigliano and, meanwhile invite vice-president Stasi, the Pugliano city council member and all the regional councilmen of the crotonese to lavish itself so that the iter comes under way procedural in order to promulgate a regional law that constitutes the regional harbour Agency for an independent management of the ports of Crotone and Corigliano if the municipality of this last one he will consider opportune".

The operators of the port Pythagorean have evidenced that "considered the bankrupt experience of national the Harbour Authorities with jurisdiction also on the smaller ports, sight moreover the shortage of state financings that are not enough not even for the Authority mother (or stepmother), goes carefully examined and with collaborativo spirit the institution of the regional harbour Agency for the independent management and administration of the port of Crotone, having taken for example same the positive experience already started in other Italian regions".

The harbour operators of the crotonese have moreover sped up "initiatives and set in action sinergiche between institutions, agencies, operators of the field and exponents of the civil society in order to avoid that the harbour system ionic-calabrian remains isolated and cut outside from the offered new lease on life of development from the new European Corridor and, above all, so that it does not remain excluded from the resources for the modernization and the potenziamento of infrastructures".



Al President of the Calabria Region
Giuseppe SCOPELLITI

Alla V. Presidente of the Calabria Region
Antonella STASI

To the Regional City council member
Franco PUGLIANO

To Councilmen Regionali
Alfonso DATTOLO
Emilio DEMASI
Salvatore PACENZA
Francesco SULLA

Al President of the Province of Crotone
Stanislao ZURLO

Al Mayor of the Municipality of Crotone
WALLOON Peppino

Al President of the Chamber of Commerce
Vincenzo PEPPARELLI

Al Commander of the Harbour office of Crotone
Nicola FREDA

and for information

Alla Sen. Dorina BIANCHI

To the On. Nicodemo OLIVERIO

Al President of the Province of Cosenza
Mario OLIVERIO

Al Commissioner Prefettizio of the Municipality of Corigliano
Rosalba SCIALLA

Al President of the Chamber of Commerce of Cosenza
Giuseppe GAGLIOTI

Al Commander of the Harbour office of Corigliano
Antonio Of LOVE


Object: Abrogation I decree of the Ministry of Transportation of the 29.12.2006 -

With I decree ministerial on December 29, 2006 came sanctioned the territorial extension, and with it the administration and management of the harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro to the ports of Crotone and Corigliano Calabro; the experience of beyond five years of management of the port of Crotone in this new organization - today - has turned out little effective if penalizing and not quite restrictive for the development of local the productive system.

The governance has been and continuous to being managed at a distance from a structure mainly polarized to the specificity of a great port of transhipment [currently crisis object due to the abandonment of the Maersk company that has provoked to a consisting reduction of traffic and a reorganization of the force job] that for dimension, traffic and services it has, in fact, a formulation little relating to the specificity of the harbour traffics of Crotone.

Such various vocation of the port-guide has relegated to marginal role the peripheral ionic ports, sacrificing of the strong operating and economic peculiarities.

In fact not even the logic is not faced for which it was thought - and we were convinced - to create the harbour poles, that logic to make system and to create the harbour platform that could, in an only management and programming, to put in net the ports for sinergizzare services and programs, being profitable productive all the structures finalizing them to an only Network.

We have stated that the mechanism of participation and representation of the local organisms to the decisional processes of the harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro strongly turns out penalizing is for the participation and is still more for rappresentatività of the interested categories, moreover the same specificity of the social, economic withins and geographic various and strongly heterogenous they difficultly return the advantages deriving from the presence of an only subject realizable manager in charge of the programmatorie activities and administrative, when the rules of operation of the subject in which it meets, does not guarantee to the met parts pairs dignity, parity of powers and participation to the managerial phases.

The process of centralization of the control and government functions has generated ulterior constraints, delays and conditionings such to relegate the port of Crotone to a minority, residuale and peripheral role; peripheral to such point that even though with a center to Crotone - located in a communal piece of real estate - which work on a level with office non decision-makers, the harbour operators - to tuttoggi - is found in the condition must be reported near the located headquarters to about 200 km of distance with sure not easy street distances, that is - as already happened - to be urgently summoned to participate to reunions to hold to Gioia Tauro when the object of the odg regards the port of Crotone exclusively.

The undersigneds, to the aim to realize the own legitimate expectations, feel the duty to participate, to invite and to entrust the institutional representatives addressed to the resolution of tempore Protocollo of understanding illo the stipulated, let alone formal demand to the competent Organs in order to obtain the abrogation of Decreto of the Ministry of Transportation of the 29.12.2006. by means of which territorial administrative division of the harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro is extended to the port of Crotone, to the aim to exceed the current form of dependency from the harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, being started the procedures of managerial autonomy that the norms offer.

Al fine to continue the activity of management with autonomy operating financial institution and, exceeding the current phase of managerial and administrative dependency colonialist strongly imprinted from the harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, invites the SS.LL addressed to consider in concrete terms the institution of regional harbour Agency (A.Po.R) and to take part regarding the Calabria Region so that you set off iter procedural that you carry to the institution of the regional harbour Agency, which will manage the port of Crotone independently entirety - if that Municipality considers it opportune, to the Jonian port of Corigliano Calabro.

The reform of Titolo V° of the Constitution confers new values and meanings in matter of government of the territory and in this context some regions (Tuscany and Abruzzi) has already estimated a greater role in the government of the ports instituting the regional harbour Agency, which disciplines the administrative functions for the ports of regional interest to pre-eminent commercial function.

Of the Jonian ports calabrians with commercial function - to the current state - those which could be interested to a regime of managerial autonomy are Crotone and Corigliano; the institution of a regional harbour Agency that administers and manages the two ports becomes the corrected interpretation of the national law and, at the same time, it guarantees a governance to the smaller ports with determined the proportions traffic that they do not have the designated characteristics in order to institute a harbour Authority so as interpreted from law 84/1994 but, however need oculata local management and above all of promotion and programming it is infrastructural that of development.

Considered the bankrupt experience of national the harbour Authorities with jurisdiction also on the smaller ports, sight moreover the shortage of state financings that are not enough not even for the Authority mother [or stepmother] we examine carefully and with collaborativo spirit the institution of the regional harbour Agency for the independent management and administration of the port of Crotone, taking for example same the positive experience already started in other Italian regions.

Please find enclosed an exhausting files valutativa with the invitation to transmit to the operatoriportuali.kr@tiscali.it mail every eventual communication to the aim to receive elucidations in merit and to start the organization of a consultation table in order to expose the problematic one and to proceed consequently.

Crotone them,


Signed original gives:
Marcello Casaburi for Ormeggiatori Group of the ports Crotone and Corigliano
Piero Castelliti for Ausimare Srl - Marine and Harbour Environmental Services - Crotone
Marco Vrenna for Vremar Srl - off-shore Assistance platforms - Crotone
Flavio Matarazzo for Corporation Pilots of the Port - Crotone
Gennaro Assisi for ASC Marine Services - marine Agency - Crotone
Pasquale Ottaviano for Ge.Tra.De. Srl - marine Agency - Crotone
Osvaldo Sestito for Harbour Company - Crotone
Annunziata Bossi for A.B. Agency - Marine Agency - Crotone
Gregorio Ciliberto for Ciliberto PLC - Commercialization concretes - Crotone
Mario Risso for Ingemar Srl - Marine Agency - Crotone
Mario Fuoco for Company Harbour Enterprise Working Srl - Crotone
Raffaele Bossi for Poseidon Srl - Harbor tugs - Crotone
Giuseppe Tricoli for Siblings Tricoli & C. - marine Agency - Crotone
Giancarlo DallaVenezia for Dalla Venezia Srl - marine Adviser - Crotone
Bianca Ranieri for Agemar Srl - Marine Agency - Crotone
Luca Leto for Naval Mechanics of L. Leto - Crotone
Ilario Scuteri for Associates Puntaneto Cooperative - Cooperative fishermen - Crotone
Maria Rita Merigliano for Coop. Fishermen Hera Lacinia Scrl - Crotone


THE GOVERNANCE OF THE PORTS CALABRIANS
INSTITUTION OF THE REGIONAL HARBOUR AGENCY

PRELIMINARY APPRAISALS

Premised
The reform of Titolo V° of the Constitution confers new values and meanings in matter of government of the territory; in this context the Italian Regions are, for a long time, claiming a greater role in the government of the ports.
The objective of this iter normative will be that of the ports of third generation, inserted smaller harbour ports of call in the territory of which they take part, on which the Region - with the Municipalities - takes part proposing innovative policies of development. On this distance the Regions Tuscany and Abruzzi have started the political appraisals in order to reach to independent organism of governace harbour.


1. Object of the objective and bill in parliament that agrees to pursue.
The bill in parliament disciplines to the administrative functions in the matter of the regional ports pre-eminent commercial function and institutes the Regional Harbour Agency.

With the bill in parliament one agrees to discipline in more effective and efficient way the exercise of the four fundamental functions of the regional ports:
a) the function of planning of the harbour areas;
b) the function of programming of the public works;
c) the functions of planning and execution of the programmed work, today regulated from D.Lgs 163/2006 (Code of contracts relative publics to work);
d) the concerning release and the management of the state property concessions the harbour areas, conferred to the Region from the D.Lgs.31 March 1998, n. 112.

The regional harbour Agency will carry out the following functions:
1. planning in the harbour areas, supplying to the technical elaboration of the harbour town development plan;
2. programming of the works to realize;
3. management of the state property concessions for the harbour areas and of the services;
4. planning and realization of the harbour works.

The Regional Harbour Agency will be structured on the base of an organizational model that previews the interaction of several organs, which is expression of a political member and a technical member.

The political member will be represented by the Harbour Committee, organ of address, so constituted:
- from the President of the Regional committee and the regional city council member in matter of harbour activities and transports or named delegated they between the competent leaders in the reference matters;
- from the President of the province or its substitute;
- from the mayor and another member of the council or delegated they;
- from the President of the territorial competent Chamber of Commerce or its delegate;
- they will take part of the Harbour Committee the Commander of the Harbour office and the Leader of the Agency of Customs - territorial competent - let alone the representatives of the operators and harbour users.

The President of the Regional committee [that is the marine Director of the Calabria Region that is the President of the Chamber of Commerce] with functions assumes the functions of President of the Committee to convene and to preside the Committee; the deliberations of the Committee are taken to majority and in case of parity the ballot of the President prevails.

The technical member will be constituted gives:
- a leader of the Agency, having the necessary technical-administrative competences called “Director of the harbour Agency” (*) - that he will be the referring one of the activities for the Harbour Committee; he is named by the President of the Regional committee, in agreement with il/i Common interested.
- a reviser of the accounts, named between the regional Leaders of the area Budget - Patrimony-Pay that is a communal or provincial Leader of pairs competence.
- an administrative office that will make use of detached and/or commanded regional staff and of staff of the interested Local authorities and a technical department - also it composed by commanded staff - than will make use of the technical contribution of the Regional Office Marine structures of Reggio Calabria.

(*) the Director of the Regional, chosen Agency Harbour between people of proven professional qualification in the fields of the harbour economy and the transports, will be the only figure to being paid by means of the entrances of the Agency, will be assumed with by right private contract and could be removed from the assignment anytime with deliberation of Regional committee.

The social requirement that the proposal stretches to satisfy will be that to group in an only organism the competences of commercial the regional ports with determined the proportions traffic that to the current state more Agencies are delegated, being intended to answer to the requirement to plan more all effectively the participations concerning the harbour areas, characterizing the better strategies for the programming of the harbour works and the quickest realization of the same ones.

Considered the iter under Marina of Crotone PLC, tending to obtain the concession of some areas and state property watery mirrors to use after diportistico scope, it is right to specify that the regional harbour Agency will not constitute duplications and/or hampers as, this last one will exclusively take care of the classified areas and landings place to commercial the marine traffic.


2. Discipline and legislative sources of the bill in parliament.

As a result of Legge 18.10.2001, n°3 (Reform of Titolo V of the Constitution) is up to the Region concurrent the legislative power c.d on the matter of the ports and the airports.
The law has been placed in the picture of national legislation that already had attributed to the regions all the administrative functions inherent the field of the marine portualità in its double valence of infrastructure and activity to commercial and tourist character.

In particular, article 105 of I decree legislative 31,03. 1998, n.112, as modified
from article 9 of law 16,03. 2001, n.88 (New dispositions in matter of investments in
marine enterprises) next to the normative going back of which to law 28,01. 1994, n.84
(I reorder of the legislation in harbour matter) still enforced establishes:
“1. They are conferred to the E regions to the local authorities all the functions not express indicated in articles of anticipate head and not attributed to the harbour authorities from the 28 law January 1994, n. 84, and next modifications integrations.
2. Between the functions of which to codicil 1 they are, in particular, conferred to the regions the relative functions:
a) to the release of the authorization to the use in service of line of the destined buses to the service of
leading chartering with, relatively to the bus companies of own competence;
b) to the water refueling of the islands;
c) to I estimate it naval;
d) to the discipline of the inland navigation;
e) to the programming, planning, planning and execution of the participations of construction, reclamation and maintenance of the ports of regional and interregional relief of the construction works to service of the harbour activity”.

According to the outline delineated from the legislator of the 2001 they have remained to the State only the administrative functions in the ports finalized to the military defense and to safety of the State, in the ports of national and international economic importance let alone in the areas of pre-eminent national interest characterized with the update of I Prime Minister's decree of ministers 21,12. 1995, according to than previewed from article 4 of law 84/1994.

The emanation of the law 16.03.2001 n.88 (New dispositions in matter of investments in the marine enterprises), the effectiveness of new Title V of the Constitution, let alone the lacked location by the State the ports of regional interest (second how much would have had to make according to article 4 of the l.84/1994) has carried to a period of uncertainty in shares of the competences between State E regions local authorities in the matter of which draft.
The recent ones pronunce of Constitutional Court 10,03. 2006, n. 89 and 90, and 10,10. 2007, n. 344 have facilitated the task to clarify the regional competences with reference to the ports of regional importance, since the Constitutional Court has acclarato that the state competence only considers in the ports center of harbour Authority operating.

With reference to the concrete management of the ports that are of regional relief second how much statuito by the Constitutional Court, from long time demanded a normative participation to regional level, in the within of which, opportunely, functions were recut also to the specific local authorities.

The programming of the works that will have to be realized from costituenda the Authority will be carried out through the triennial and anniversary of the public works, attached program to the budget of forecast of the Harbour and approved of Authority from the Regional committee; the planning and execution of the harbour works will be carried out by the Authority through Regional Office OO.MM., against to seem binding of the competent Harbour Committees.


3. Financial and operating effects of the new subject on the regional budget.

The bill in parliament will not produce financial effects of expense on the regional budget. The regional harbour Agency will make use of personal competent detached by the Calabria Region and of staff of the interested territorial agencies, detached or commanded, let alone of staff of the Harbour offices.

For the institution of the Harbour Authority, some expenses will have moreover character an one-off for the preparation of the center and the offices that will be accommodated near patrimonial real estate structures.
All the members of the harbour Committee will not perceive some chip of presence but, exclusively reimbursements of expenses for institute tasks.

The bill in parliament could produce financial effects on the entrances on the regional budget with reference to the activity of management of relative the state property concessions to the harbour areas and
collection of the relative canons.

Sul point, is mentioned that art. the 9 of relative Decreto to the CD. “state property federalism” D.Lgs. 85/2010 (Attribution to municipalities, metropolitan provinces, cities and regions of an own patrimony, in art. the 19 performance to Legge 5.05.2009, n° 42) previews, at the moment of the devoluzione of the competence, a cut of the state transfers today carried out in measure pairs to the reduction of the revenue entrances collected relatively to that good; operatively, therefore, the Region, once discounted the above-mentioned measure, would have the full power on the state property canons.

For the operativity of constituting subject, an organizational chart composed from a chosen general manager between people of sure and documented field experience and from a equipment of the technical and administrative staff also for implementation of the Office OO.MM is previewed., to which it will be tackled without additional burdens with staff detached from the E region detached or commanded by the interested local authorities.

The bill in parliament, naturally, will have impact under the organizational and procedural profile and previews the involvement more institutional subjects for its performance.

As a result of the approval of it anticipates bill in parliament will be modified the competences and the functions of the Municipalities center of regional ports and of the regional Office marine structures.

The Regional Harbour Agency could be instituted in all the ports of regional and interregional interest with preminante commercial function, with tasks of address, programming and coordination of the regarding participations the same ports, let alone of promotion and development of the regional marine traffics and of all those activities that esplicano in the within of the ports. It could coordinate, also, all the transferred, delegated functions and administrative tasks or attributed to the Region for the cure of the marine interests and harbour localizzabili in the regional territory, also in order to adapt them to the Regional Plan of the Transports and in order to define same the implementing instruments of the Plan in relation to the requirements of the single ports.

For the attainment of the foretold purposes, the Regional Harbour Agency could propose variations and updates of the harbour town development plans and the marine structures, let alone of the same general town-planning instruments.
One would be a matter of tasks and functions which foreordained to the management of the port and the adjacent areas to it, in harmony with the regional programming so as to coordinate, above all, the harbour system with the regional program of development.

Between the entrusted tasks to it, a pre-eminent role would assume the editing of the town development plans of the single ports, with the formulation of proposals for actions, initiatives and participations necessary in order to adapt to the harbour town development plans and the modalities of use of the harbour areas and, therefore, the regional harbour system, to the actions of regional and local programming.
In particular, the concessori actions reported to the use of the harbour areas would have to be coherent with the Development plan of the regional portualità and with the town development plans of the single ports.

Moreover, the Agency would carry out every action and participation because the actions and the instruments of regional and local programming hold account of the regional harbour system and the management of the single ports, let alone of the perspectives of development of the same ones, in relation to the expectable requirements of the marine traffics, nautical tourism and the peach.

The Authority would assist, also, the competent regional Offices and the Regional committee in the cooperation between E region State and E region Local authorities for the coordination of the state and regional norms that however can interest or refer to the marine state property assets, with detail with regard to the town-planning instruments and to the landscape plans, for the best protection of the environmental and natural assets.
It would be put into effect, so, a organizzatoria, thin agile structure, scevra from participations that can penalize the economic choices operated in matter of use of harbour areas and docks, let alone of marine and harbour services, having as only point of reference the economic development of the port in the context of the requirements of the relative one hinterland.

In the exercise of the administrative functions by the Region, concerning relative the marine structures to the ports pertaining to categories II, classes II and III, of which to codicil 7, art. 5, of law 28.1.1994, n° 84, the Regional Harbour Agency would coordinate, also, the management of the same works and the functions to relating they, to the aim to assure to the system of the regional harbour works a unitary and efficient management.

The Agency would coordinate, also, the participations and the activities of the subjects relative private publics and to the use of the realized works, the installed equipments and the there existing systems, proposing the necessary initiatives for the maintenance of the ports, land, points of landing place and mooring points in conditions of full feasibility and functionality, let alone for the adaptation of the structures and the systems to the increasing requirements of the system of the transports regional and national.

In order to tackle to the expenses deriving from the management of the Authority and to the salary and wage of the General manager, to the same one the competence in matter of canons of concession for the use of the harbour areas will be attributed, in connection with the duration of the concession, to the previewed investments, the value of the areas and the usable systems, to the entity of the harbour traffics carried out there and to the profits that can some achieve.

For how much it concerns, instead, the technical-nautical services [pilotage, towing, mooring and battellaggio] will maintain to the competence of the competent Ministry, being the requirement of uniformity of the parameters that interest the generality of the national ports.

On the other hand, the functions of harbour Police and safety previewed from the articles. 62 and ss. Cod. nav. and 61 ss. Regulations Marine Navigation, would remain in the flood and exclusive right title of the marine Authority.


4. Conclusive notes.

The purpose of the institution of the Regional Harbour Agency intimately is correlated to the possibility of a easyr performance of the localizzabili economic-social interests in the territory, with a more organic and coherent connection to the other instruments by means of which the regional programming is put into effect in practice, so realizing an integrated management of the port and the destined areas to the complex of the productive initiatives.

The operativity of a structure that is set as only decision and point of reference for the order of the port and the adjacent areas and for economic-productive the relative choices to the takeover, in a wider regional context and that it are able to estimate the entire capacity of the planning instruments and of performance of the regional plan of the transports, represents the synthesis of all the organs and Agencies that, to miscellaneous title, they have competences in the administration and the management of the harbour areas.

It is from emphasizing that in so far as will be realized a horizontal cooperation between all the subjects interested publics, in loyal and corrected way, the Regional Agency will be able more easily to achieve those objectives of economizations and productivity that are to the base of the harbour management.

The proposal of a regional law for the institution of such Agency stretches to show one of the percorribili hypotheses in a context of evolution of our ordering, stiff to estimate always better the performance than suitable instruments that allow the best attainment of the localizzabili interests in a determined territory.

Is this ratio and, meanwhile, limit, of operativity of said Agency, that it could assume a role propeller of all the initiatives of marine character and the activity who can esplicare themselves in the within of the port and the adjacent areas, with certain positive glares for the economic-social development of the entire interested territory.
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In 2024, 576 containers were lost at sea out of over 250 million transported by ships
Washington
About 200 have fallen from container ships in the Cape of Good Hope region
FMC questions deal exempting World Shipping Council companies from US antitrust rules
Washington
Meanwhile, Sola, appointed by Trump on January 20 to the presidency of the federal agency, is leaving his post today.
The European maritime-port sector nitpicks the reform of the Community customs rules
Brussels
Note from CLECAT, ECASBA, European Shipowners, ESPO, Feport and WSC
EU Council agrees on reform of the Union Customs Code
Brussels
CLECAT is concerned about the persistence of the concept of "Single Liable Person" in the text
In the first three months of 2025, freight traffic in the port of Civitavecchia grew by +2.4%
Civitavecchia
Increase of +9.9% in Gaeta and decrease of -17.1% in Fiumicino
WTO: New tariffs have given a boost to trade that is unlikely to last
Geneva
Recovery driven by importers who brought forward purchases in view of expected tariff increases
Japanese shipbuilding company Imabari Shipbuilding acquires control of fellow Japanese JMU
Imabari/Tokyo
Ownership share increased from 30% to 60%
Terminal Investments Limited of the MSC Group acquires 50% of the capital of Barcelona Europe South Terminal
Barcelona
The transaction was authorized by the Port Authority of Barcelona
There are no implementing decrees for the SalvaMare law and Italian citizens are paying for the management of fished waste that is not carried out
Rome
The Marevivo Foundation and the Federation of the Sea report it
In five and a half years, 1,244 tons of drugs have been seized in EU ports
In five and a half years, 1,244 tons of drugs have been seized in EU ports
Lisbon
The largest quantities pass through ports in Belgium, Spain, Holland, Italy and Germany
The International Convention on Ship Recycling will enter into force tomorrow
Copenhagen
BIMCO urges EU to include Indian shipyards in EU list of ship recycling facilities
Assologistica presents the "Cruscotto" project to ensure transparency and legality in the logistics sector
Milan
Ruggerone: it is an infrastructure of trust between clients and operators
Federagenti, cruises cannot and must not become the target of an indiscriminate hate campaign
Federagenti, cruises cannot and must not become the target of an indiscriminate hate campaign
Rome
A "Pact for the Sea" proposed with solutions to tackle overtourism for which passenger ships are not to blame
New step forward for the construction of the underground freight transport system in Switzerland
New step forward for the construction of the underground freight transport system in Switzerland
Bern
Cargo sous terrain plans to build a 500-kilometer system by mid-century
Carnival posts record earnings for March-May period
Carnival posts record earnings for March-May period
Miami
The number of cruise passengers embarked also peaked this quarter
Federlogistica: Activating railway construction sites without a coordinated plan is reckless.
Genoa
Falteri: Isolating the port of Genoa from the rail network for three weeks would put the whole of Northern Italy in difficulty.
Multipurpose terminals privatized in eight Saudi ports
Multipurpose terminals privatized in eight Saudi ports
Riyadh
Four will be operated by Saudi Global Ports and four by Red Sea Gateway Terminal
Public debate launched on the project for Pier VIII in the port of Trieste
Public debate launched on the project for Pier VIII in the port of Trieste
Trieste
A total investment of 315.8 million euros is expected
South Korea's HD Hyundai partners with US Edison Chouest Offshore to build containerships in US
South Korea's HD Hyundai partners with US Edison Chouest Offshore to build containerships in US
Seoul
The possibility of building other types of ships and constructing port cranes is foreseen
Paolo Pessina has been appointed vice president of Conftrasporto-Confcommercio.
Rome
He is president of the national federation of maritime agents and brokers
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong decreased by -8.2% in the second quarter
Hong Kong
A decrease of -13.7% was recorded in June
Cuneo-based logistics company Nord Ovest is seeing growing financial results.
Wedge
Construction work on a new depot in Mondovì will be completed in early 2026.
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles grows driven by fears of new tariffs
Los Angeles
June saw the highest volume ever recorded for this month
The Management Committee of the Sardinia Sea Port Authority has adopted the DPSS
Cagliari
Green light for the concession to MITO and the appeal against the rejection of Olbia's dredging project.
Three events in Genoa for three new Explora Journeys cruise ships.
Genoa
A technical launch, a coin laying and the cutting of the first sheet metal were carried out at the Fincantieri shipyard
Grimaldi sells 5% of Terminal Darsena Toscana to Livorno Port Company
Naples/Livorno
Option to purchase an additional 5% of the share capital
Matteo Gasparato appointed president of the Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority
Rome
He was appointed extraordinary commissioner of the same port authority
Concession agreement signed that assigns management of the port of Tartous to DP World
Damascus
It has a lifespan of 30 years
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Meeting in Rome between the heads of ESPO and Assoporti
Rome
Among the topics addressed, the competitiveness of European ports in the current global context
Chinese airline OOCL reports quarterly decline in scheduled service revenues
Hong Kong
Cargo transported by the company's ships is increasing
Collaboration between the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority and the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority
Rome
Agreement with an initial duration of five years
Survey in Germany on the prospects of companies in the maritime, port and shipbuilding sectors
Hamburg
Shipowners are more concerned. Positive prospects for ports and shipyards.
Port of Augusta: Work begins on a third bridge connecting the island to the mainland.
Augusta
Work worth over 20 million euros
Vard signs contract with InkFish for new research vessel
Trieste
The deal is worth more than 200 million euros.
1.1 billion euros will be invested in the port of Hamburg to strengthen the container sector
Hamburg
Meyer Turku delivered the new Star of the Seas cruise ship to Royal Caribbean
Turku
It has a gross tonnage of 250,800 tons
ESPO calls for increased funding for ports under the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework
Brussels
The CEF programme funds have proven to be far from sufficient
Fincantieri delivers the new Oceania Allura cruise ship to Oceania Cruises.
Miami/Trieste
Two additional Sonata-class ships have been converted into orders.
Uniport: Bringing debris from Bagnoli to the port of Naples would postpone long-awaited dredging.
Rome
Legora de Feo: It's necessary to find alternative solutions.
Taiwanese companies Evergreen, Yang Ming and WHL saw sharp declines in quarterly revenues.
Keelung/Taipei
In the period April-June it fell by -18.7%, -26.5% and -8.6% respectively
The establishment of the Information Dashboard for the management of private procurement contracts in logistics has been approved.
In May, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna grew by +1.4%
Ravenna
Bulk cargo is on the rise. Miscellaneous cargo is on the decline.
EU approves joint purchase of port equipment by terminal operators
Brussels
Joint definition of minimum technical specifications of equipment is also permitted
Serbian energy group EPS will import coal through the Montenegrin port of Bar
Bar
Currently imports from Indonesia pass through the port of Constanta
Freewheeling: The government's U-turn on anti-mafia controls in the road haulage sector is a welcome development.
Modena
Franchini: If the government has realized it made a mistake, that's good news.
Fincantieri Foundation and Luiss University launch a project to strengthen the safety of underwater infrastructure.
Trieste
Among the objectives, contribute to the definition of a specific regulatory framework
Agostinelli (AdSP Tirreno Meridionale e Ionio): the amendment that allows for the early transformation of the Gioia Tauro Port Agency is extremely important.
Confindustria's event on the maritime economy will take place in Rome on July 15th.
Rome
The confederation's strategic document on the sector will be presented
Kerala seeks $1.1 billion from MSC in damages over MSC Elsa 3 sinking
Thiruvananthapuram
Temporary detention of the vessel "MSC Akuteta II" granted
Trasportounito requests the cancellation of the renewal procedure of the Central Committee of the Register of Hauliers
Rome
New seizure of a load of cocaine in the port of Gioia Tauro
Reggio Calabria
16 bags containing 417 kilos of drugs were found in a container
MOL and Kinetics to build world's first floating data center
Tokyo
It will be installed on a vessel of 9,731 gross tonnage
Rijeka Gateway Terminal to become operational in early September
Copenhagen
The first ship at the second container terminal of the Croatian port is expected on September 12
Falteri (Federlogistica) urges to focus on the development of a "polycentric" logistics
Genoa
The Simplified Logistics Zone should be the cornerstone of the strategy
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co. acquired Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co.
Hiroshima/Tokyo
It was renamed Tsuneishi Solutions Tokyobay Co.
Pessina (Federagenti): Northern European logistics system is struggling. Let's take advantage of it!
Rome
Unexpected opportunity - he underlines - for the Mediterranean ports and Italian ones in particular
MSC Cruises Joins Carnival and Royal Caribbean in Capitalizing on Grand Bahama Shipyard
Miami
Negotiations underway since the end of 2024 have been successfully concluded
At The International Propeller Clubs the Dorso Award for the Mediterranean area
Naples
In recognition of the primary role played by logistics operators in Mediterranean traffic
ABB Signs Service Agreement with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
Zurich
It has a duration of 15 years and covers 33 ships in the fleet.
P&O Maritime Logistics (DP World Group) to acquire 51% of NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers
Lugano
Nova Marine Holding and Algoma Central Corporation will retain 49%
Stable freight traffic in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado Ligure in May
Genoa
A decrease of -2.4% was recorded in the Ligurian capital's airport; a rise of +7.2% was recorded in the Savona airport
Consilium Safety Group Expands Presence in Türkiye and Maritime Market
Gothenburg
Ares Marine acquired
Fincantieri has opened a new Innovation Antenna in South Korea
Seoul
It is located in the heart of Seoul's technology district.
The first InnoWay freight railcars have left the Bagnoli della Rosandra plant
Trieste
Once fully operational, the production of over 1,000 light wagons and up to 3,000 trolleys per year is expected.
The commissioners of various AdSPs also assume the powers attributed to the Management Committees
Rome
Provisions for the port authorities of the Ionian Sea, the Central-Northern Adriatic Sea, the Eastern Ligurian Sea and the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea
Ferrara-based INCICO acquires Italiana Sistemi and focuses on transport engineering
Ferrara/Naples
It specializes in infrastructure and plant engineering in the railway and road sectors
Hupac announces expansion of Duisburg-Singen shuttle with connections to Italy
Noise
Daily departures will be made
The transfer of 80% of Louis-Dreyfus Armateurs' capital to InfraVia has been implemented
Suresnes/Paris
The Louis-Dreyfus family retains the remaining 20%
Port of Genoa, green light for extension of concession to Spinelli until September 30
Genoa
Ok also to the extension to the Campostano group
The National Maritime Fund has started the recognition of scholarships
Genoa
They are granted for basic training and security familiarization courses.
RFI and MIT sign the update to the program contract for approximately 2.1 billion
Rome
Around 500 million euros expected for the management of the railway network
San Giorgio del Porto delivers a vessel for the bunkering of liquefied natural gas
Genoa
It was built for Genova Trasporti Marittimi
Raffaele Latrofa appointed president of the AdSP of the Central-Northern Tyrrhenian Sea
Rome
He is the deputy mayor of Pisa
Pisano (AdSP Liguria Orientale): the ports of La Spezia and Carrara have integrated almost perfectly
La Spezia/Bari
The Special Commissioner of the Southern Adriatic Sea Port Authority has been appointed.
India's Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Acquires Control of Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard
Mumbai
Investment of approximately 53 million dollars
The Commissioner of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority has been granted the powers and prerogatives of the Management Committee
Genoa
The measure pending the restoration of the ordinary top management bodies
The Three-Year Operational Plan 2025-2027 of the Central Adriatic Port Authority has been approved
Ancona
Favorable opinion of the Sea Resource Partnership Body
The public meeting of the International Containers Studies Center will be held in Genoa on July 2nd
Genoa
It will deal with the physical transformations of the container and the digitalization of processes
Andrea Ormesani is the new president of Assosped Venezia.
Venice
The board of directors has been renewed. Paolo Salvaro remains general secretary.
Witte (ISU): In 2024, the ship salvage sector stabilized from the low of two years ago
London
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
Confindustria event on the sea economy in Rome on July 15th
Rome
The public meeting of the International Containers Studies Center will be held in Genoa on July 2nd
Genoa
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
US has its eye on Greek ports
(Kathimerini)
Proposed 30% increase for port tariffs to be in phases, says Loke
(Free Malaysia Today)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Finnish Elomatic to Install Tunnel Thrusters on 11 Carnival Cruise Ships
Turku
The works will begin next autumn and will end in 2028
The Assarmatori assembly will be held in Rome on July 1st
Rome
"Mediterranean against the current" the theme of the meeting
Fincantieri has delivered the new cruise ship Viking Vesta to the American Viking
Trieste/Los Angeles
It was built in the Ancona shipyard
The Genoa Coast Guard has placed the container ship PL Germany under administrative detention
Genoa
The Italian Navy has commissioned two new Multipurpose Combat Ships from Fincantieri.
Trieste
The order to the shipbuilding company is worth 700 million euros
MSC Group to manage cruise services in the ports of Bari and Brindisi
Bari
Ten-year concession with the possibility of extension
German Kombiverkehr Returns to Profit in 2024
Frankfurt am Main
The level of revenues remained unchanged at 434.6 million euros.
Deltamarin to design the six new ro-pax vessels ordered by Grimaldi for the Mediterranean routes
Turku
The practice of subcontracting in European logistics is creating a parallel labour market where rights are not enforced
Brussels
"Sorry, We Subcontracted You" Report Presented
Tomorrow Grendi will launch the group's fourth ship on routes to and from Sardinia
Milan
"Grendi Star", with a load capacity of 2,800 linear meters, will connect Marina di Carrara and Cagliari
FREMM frigates operational support contract signed between Orizzonte Sistemi Navali and OCCAR
Taranto
The agreement has a total value of approximately 764 million euros
Call to reform the entire driver training system in the transport sector
Rome
Seven proposals presented
In the port of Gioia Tauro, the Guardia di Finanza soldiers seized 228 kilos of cocaine
Reggio Calabria
Two dockers arrested
Port of Livorno, new observatory to find solutions to the problem of port congestion
Leghorn
Marilli: We will seek solutions to reach the possible revocation of the port fee
Lockton PL Ferrari closed the last fiscal year with gross revenues of 34 million dollars
Genoa
Insurance premium volume rose to 350 million
Polish Trans Polonia Group acquires Dutch Nijman/Zeetank Holding
Tczew
It specializes in the transportation and logistics of liquid and gaseous products
d'Amico Tankers Sells Two 2011-Built Tankers for $36.2 Million
Luxembourg
They will be delivered to buyers by the end of July and on December 21st.
The Italian Merchant Marine Academy plans 13 new free courses
Genoa
Over 300 positions available
A delegation of Wista Italy visits the ports of Catania and Augusta
Catania/August
The association is made up of women who hold positions of responsibility in the maritime, logistics and trade sectors.
In the first five months of 2025, the port of Algeciras handled 1.9 million containers (-6.3%)
Algeciras
Empty containers decreased by -5.5% and full ones by -6.4%
Reway Group enters the port railway infrastructure maintenance sector
Licciana Nardi
Two contracts awarded by the AdSP of the Eastern Ligurian Sea
Delcomar and Ensamar take over maritime services with the smaller Sardinian islands
Cagliari
The tender for the six-year concession of the connections has been awarded
Port of Trieste, the newly appointed Gurrieri torpedoes the newly appointed Torbianelli
Trieste
Russo (Pd): it's a squalid power game
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