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The government appeals the law of the Friuli Venice Gulia on the regional portualità
Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti exhort the executive to safeguard the role of the Harbour Authorities
July 27, 2012

This morning the Council of Ministers has deliberated the impugnativa dinanzi to the Constitutional Court of the law n. 12 of the Region Friuli Venice bringing Julia "Discipline of the portualità of regional competence", that it is promulgated 31st May ( on 24 May 2012). The decision is assumed - precise a note of Palazzo Chigi - as the regional law, that we publish below, "contains a norm that, previewing the possibility for the Region to stipulate conventions with private in exception to the state discipline in matter of use of the assets the publics".

While the unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti have exhorted the government to safeguard the role of the Harbour Authorities, threatened - they have explained the three unions - as a result of the sentence of the Regional administrative court of the Latium that "modification the system and the contents of the law the 84/94 on the ports, considering Harbour Authorities as "inserted public administrations in the consolidated economic account of Public Administration"". According to the labor organizations of category, "this determines of the most serious consequences on the role of the same Harbour Authorities that will come subordinates to not necessary constraints that in fact of it they reduce the function, the operativity and above all of it they modify the job relationship that for all the dependent of the Authorities from private becomes public". "All this - they have found Filt, Fit and Uilt - unhinging the contractual system is national is premises that they give beyond ten years is enforced and that its validity in terms of protection of the workers and efficiency of the same Authorities in the more general interest of the ports has demonstrated in the facts all".

For Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti, "are more and more urgent and not rinviabile, being given the resource to the Council of State against the sentence of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Latium, a legislative provision that clarifies the role of the Harbour Authorities. Without an participation of the government and the parliament in such sense - the unions consider - a damage to the workers would be determined, a hardening of the functions and the scopes of the fallen back Harbour Authorities with the consequent ones on the operativity of the port, without no economic benefit for the State, but more rather with a concrete risk that the ports are less efficient in the system of the transports of the goods of our Country".



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Friuli Venice Julia

Regional law 31 May 2012, n. 12

Discipline of the portualità of regional competence.


HEAD I
GENERAL PRINCIPLES

Art. 1
(General Principles and purpose)

1. Law anticipates, according to article 117, third codicil, of the Constitution, let alone in performance of I decree legislative 1 April 2004, n. 111 (Norms of performance of the special charter of the concerning region Friuli-Venezia Giulia the transfer of functions in practicability matter and transports), and of I on February 9, 2009 Prime Minister's decree of the Ministers, and in harmony with the strategic objectives of the European Community, it disciplines to the organization and the operation of the Port of Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro, based on the following principles:
  1. separation between activity of administration, regulation and activity of enterprise;
  2. transparency, impartiality and good course of Public Administration;
  3. freedom of enterprise and free circulation of the people, the goods and the services;
  4. protection of the efficiency of the harbour market and the user, the general services and the harbour operations;
  5. promotion of the marine and harbour services and the harbour development in general terms, in harmony with the system of infrastructures of transport and the logistics;
  6. simplification of the procedures and control of the tempistica in the release of the authorizations and concessions.
2. The Region exercises the regulation activity on the Ports of Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro in the optical primary to favor the realization of infrastructures and the development of the functional services to the organization of a regional logistic platform that considers the existing ports in the territory of the Region, the retroportuali and intermodal areas, also in relation to the transnational corridors of traffic promoted by the European Union. The Region recognizes the strategic interest of the Ports of Trieste, Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro, of it supports the development in the respect of the competences of the State by means of opportune forms of cooperation, also with own resources, taken into consideration the characteristics and of the necessities of everyone of the ports, let alone in consideration of their role for the access to the European corridors.


Art. 2
(Attributions of the Region)

1. Made blank the functions maintained in head to the State, in relation to the requirements of unitarism, of which to article 11 of I decree legislative 111/2004, the Region it exercises the pianificatorie, programmatorie and administrative functions for the organization and the operation of the Port of Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro, second the modalities indicated to codicils 2 and 3.

2. Regional Alla Giunta is attributed the choices of harbour politics to assume with the wider participation of the institutions and the local authorities. The Regional committee, in particular:
  1. it promotes the development of the regional harbour system, in an optical of sinergica cooperation between ports, retroporti, logistics of the transports, by means of instruments of territorial planning of the ports, address for the management of the areas of harbour interest, programming of infrastructures and coordination of the resources financial institutions;
  2. program the investments with the scope to favor integration of the systems of transport and the development of the regional logistic platform in support of the harbour activities;
  3. it favors the development of the nets of communication of European interest and their interrelations with harbour, retroportuali infrastructures and the regional logistic platform;
  4. it promotes forms of cooperation between the ports of the Adriatic north for the potenziamento of the offer and best integration between ports and infrastructural and logistic nets;
  5. it supplies, in the respect of the agreed fundamental principles in the understanding of which to article 11, codicil 1, letter aa), of I decree legislative 111/2004, actions of address for the editing of the harbour Town development plan and the triennial Operations plan.
3. Competent central Alla Direzione in matter of regional portualità is up the administrative functions not attributed to the Regional committee. Such central Direction, in particular:
  1. the harbour Town development plan elaborates;
  2. it manages the triennial Operations plan of which to next article 7;
  3. it supplies to the realization of new functional infrastructures to the harbour activity, let alone to the relative maintenance;
  4. it realizes, in substitution of the State, the works of great infrastructuring of the Port of Monfalcone, in case the Region participates to you financially, in all or partially;
  5. it entrusts the supply of the services of general interest to the indifferenziata user;
  6. it assures the navigability of the harbour within supplying to the maintenance of the backdrops;
  7. it authorizes the development of the business activities and industrial, the operations and the harbour services, let alone the temporary pause of goods and materials;
  8. it releases the concessions for I use it of the state property assets in the harbour within.
4. In the matters of own competence to the regional Administration vigilance powers are attributed, regulation and decree.


Art. 3
(Attributions of the Municipality)

1. For the purposes of the Municipality anticipates law:
  1. it participates to the choices of harbour politics of which to article 2, codicil 1, by means of proposals and opinions to subject the Regional committee;
  2. it expresses the understanding on the project of the harbour Town development plan and relative varying, as expected to article 6;
  3. it takes part to the work of the advisory Committee of which to article 8.

Art. 4
(Understanding with the State)

1. To the aims of the formulation of the understanding previewed from article 11, codicil 1, letter aa), of I decree legislative 111/2004 for the planning, programming and planning of the participations in the Port of national importance of Monfalcone, the Region assures, in the within of own competences, the respect of the following addresses:
  1. participation of the marine Authority and the technical organs of the State to the process of formation of the harbour Town development plan;
  2. sharing of the program of realization of the works of great infrastructuring, as defined to article 5, codicil 9, of the law 28 January 1994, n. 84 (I reorder of the legislation in harbour matter), and next modifications;
  3. participation regional financial institution or integral assumption of the financial burdens for the realization of the works of great infrastructuring, in case of outage of resources of the State.



HEAD II
HARBOUR WITHIN AND INSTRUMENTS OF PLANNING

Art. 5
(Harbour Within)

1. The harbour within is delimited by the harbour Town development plan, that it characterizes the functional destination of the areas and defines the total order of the port, there comprised the destined areas to the industrial production, the shipbuilding activity, street, railway infrastructures and of the logistics.

2. They are considered aimed at harbour the watery mirrors, also external to the forward defenses, interested from the harbour traffic and the performance of the harbour services.

3. Areas not pertaining to the marine Federal property, provided that functional can be enclosed in the harbour within also to the exercise of the harbour activities. The regulation of the use of the private areas, in the respect of the named point of destination from the Town development plan of the port, is defined priority by means of agreements with the subject owners of the areas and the not state property systems. In case of lacked agreement the Region establishes the discipline for I use it of the private areas with administrative provision.


Art. 6
(Harbour Town development plan)

1. The formation of the harbour Town development plan and its varying happens in compliance with directive 2001/42/CE of the European Parliament and the Council, on June 27, 2001, concerning the appraisal of the effects of determined plans and programs on the atmosphere, and to the next internal norms of recepimento.

2. The project of harbour Town development plan is managed on the base of the addresses supplied from the Regional committee according to article 2.

3. The harbour Town development plan is constituted gives:
  1. an illustrative relation that describes to the objectives and the operated choices and the criteria followed in the planning of the harbour areas;
  2. graphical representations in opportune number and scale, to the aim to describe the regional planning, let alone in order to assure a clear and univocal interpretation of the contents, the norms and the procedures; for the representations they can be used computer science technologies;
  3. the definition of the times of performance, with the highly summarized description of the works and previewed equipments and the relative elements of cost;
  4. the norms of performance of the Plan.
4. The harbour Town development plan is managed of understanding with the Municipality in whose territory develops the harbour within, and, for the aims of safety of navigation and the nautical services technical, with the Marine Authority, felt the advisory Committee of which to article 8, and it is approved of in via preliminary matter from the Regional committee. After the preliminary approval, copy of the Plan is deposited near the offices of the competent central Direction and the warehouse warning contextually is published on the Gazette of the Region Friuli Venice Julia and to white the praetorian one of the territorial competent Municipality in order to allow with anyone of it has interest the presentation of oppositions and observations within the twenty next days to the publication of the warning.

5. The harbour Town development plan, eventually modified in acceptation of the oppositions and the reached observations, is approved of in definitive way from the President of the Region, on consistent deliberation of the Regional committee.

6. The harbour Town development plan of Monfalcone, as approved of in via preliminary matter, is subordinate also to the opinion of the characterized state technical organ in the understanding of which to article 11, codicil 1, letter aa), of I decree legislative 111/2004, that it is expressed within forty-five days from the demand. Passed unfruitfully such term, the opinion is returned by the competent regional structure in harbour infrastructure matter.

7. The forecasts of the harbour Town development plan are harmonized with the dispositions of the communal town-planning instruments and they cannot with these contrast. In case contrast is found the Region promotes the harmonization indicating the opportune modifications. The harmonization of the harbour Town development plan priority is promoted within appropriate conference of planning indetta from the Region, by means of understanding between all the titular agencies of pianificatoria power in the within territorial interested, that is by means of agreement of program, according to the regional norm.

8. The harbour Town development plan is put into effect on the base of a triennial program updated annually. The programming of the works of great infrastructuring in the Port of Monfalcone is subordinate to the opinion of the characterized state technical organ from the understanding of which to article 11, codicil 1, letter aa), of I decree legislative 111/2004, that it is expressed within forty-five days from the demand. Passed unfruitfully such term, the opinion is returned by the competent regional structure in harbour infrastructure matter.

9. The procedure of which to article anticipates applies also to varying to the harbour Town development plan.

10. To the planning and programming of which to the codicils precedence the ricomprese areas in the harbour within are subjected all, included those private ones.


Art. 7
(Operations plan triennial)

1. The Operations plan triennial, subject to review anniversary, defines the strategies of development of the harbour activities and the participations you turn to guarantee the attainment of the fixed objectives, comprised the general criteria for the release of the authorizations and the state property concessions there.

2. The triennial Operations plan is written up on the base of the addresses supplied from the Regional committee according to article 2 and felt the advisory Committee of which to article 8, and it is approved of by the President of the Region.



HEAD III
ADVISORY FUNCTIONS AND OF SUPPORT TO THE REGION

Art. 8
(Advisory Committee)

1. An advisory Committee is instituted for every port, composed from the competent regional City council member for matter that presides it with delegation faculty, from the central Director of the competent regional structure in matter, from a designated representative, respective, from the Province, the Municipality, the harbour operators, the industrial enterprises, the lenders of services of general interest, from the workers of the operating enterprises in the port according to article 11 and from the labor organizations, let alone, for the port of Monfalcone, from the special Company for the Port of Monfalcone and from the Consortium for the industrial development ofthe Municipality of Monfalcone and, for Porto Nogaro, from the Consortium for the industrial development of the Aussa-Horn zone. To the work of the Committee the Marine Authority is invited that participates with right to vote.

2. The Committee has advisory functions in order to the formation of the harbour Town development plan and the triennial Operations plan, let alone in order to the criteria for the release of the authorizations and the concessions and in order to the organization of the job in the port. The Committee moreover is felt in merit to other issues of general interest.

3. From the participation and the operation of the advisory Committee burdens at the expense of the budget of the Region do not derive.

4. The Committee adopts regulations for disciplining the development of its activities, that it disciplines, among other things, the modalities of convocation, the validity of the sitting and the deliberations and the form of the verbalizzazione.


Art. 9
(Institutional Collaborations)

1. Al fine to assure the highest degree than effectiveness in the development of own tasks the regional Administration is authorized to:
a) to stipulate with the subjects operating publics in the harbour withins agreements that they preview the employment of the field professionalities you anticipate there, let alone the accomplishment of performances of service to support of the Region;

b) to delegate to the special Company for the Port of Monfalcone, to the Consortium for the industrial development of the Municipality of Monfalcone and to the Consortium for the industrial development of the Aussa-Horn zone coherent tasks with the institutional scopes of the same subjects.



HEAD IV
HARBOUR ACTIVITIES

Art. 10
(Activity of enterprise)

1. The regional Administration authorizes the development of the business activities and industrial, the operations and the harbour services, let alone the temporary pause of goods and materials and entrusts the supply of the services of general interest.


Art. 11
(Authorizations for harbour operations and services)

1. The cargo, the drainage, the transfer, the warehouse, the movement generally of the goods and every are harbour operations other material, carried out in the harbour within. Those reported to specialized, complementary and accessory performances are harbour services to the cycle of the harbour operations, characterized with provision of the competent central Director, felt the advisory Committee.

2. The regional Service competent discipline and supervises on the accomplishment of the harbour operations and the harbour services, let alone on the application of the rates indicated from each enterprise.

3. The exercise of the activities of which to codicil 1, carried out on behalf own or of third party, is subject to authorization, released advance verification of the correspondence of the activities of enterprise to the triennial Operations plan, let alone of the possession by the petitioner of requirement of which to codicil 4. The authorized enterprises I am enrolled in appropriate registries and are subject to the payment of a annual canon and to the performance of a bail.

4. The release of the authorizations of which to codicil 3 it is disposed in the respect of the provision of which to the codicil 1 that determines:
  1. requirement of personal and technical-organizational character, ability financial institution, professionality of the operators and the enterprises petitioners, adapted to the activities to carry out, between which the presentation of an operating program, assisted from suitable fideiussorie guarantees also, face to the increment of the traffics and the productivity of the port, let alone the comprising determination of organic of workers to the directed dependencies also managing pictures;
  2. the criteria, the modalities and the terms in order to the release, the suspension, the forfeiture and the revocation of the autorizzativo action, let alone to the relative controls;
  3. the parameters in order to define the limits minimums and maximums of the annual canons and the bail in relation to the duration and the specificity of the authorization, held you anticipate the volume of the investments and the activities to carry out;
  4. the inherent criteria the release of specific authorizations for the exercise of harbour operations, to be carried out to the arrival or the departure of endowed ships of own mechanical means and own staff adapted to the operations to carry out, let alone for the determination of a fee and a suitable bail; such authorizations do not re-enter in the maximum number of which to codicil 7.
5. The rates of the harbour operations of which to codicil 1 they are profitable public. The authorized enterprises according to codicil 3 must communicate the rates that intend to practice in confront of the users, let alone every next variation.

6. The authorization has lasted rapportata to the proposed operating program from the enterprise. The regional Administration verification every at least anniversary the respect of the conditions previewed in the operating program.

7. The regional Administration determines the maximum number of authorizations that can be released according to codicil 3 in relation to the requirements of functionality of the port and the traffic, assuring, however, the maximum of the competition in the field.


Art. 12
(Concessions)

1. The regional Administration, made saves the necessity to reserve in the harbour within spaces operating for the development of the harbour operations by not concessionary enterprises, can grant to the subjects authorized to the development of activity of enterprise or to the supply of having services of general interest economic importance the occupation and the use, also exclusive, of state property areas and docks by means of procedures to public evidence, in the respect of the principles of transparency, impartiality and competition.

2. The regional Administration proceeds, of norm, by means of warning to be published for extracted on the Gazette of the Region Friuli Venice White Julia and on the praetorian one of the Municipality, with which it informs of the understanding to entrust in concession a marine state property area inviting the candidates to introduce within advanced a not inferior term to twenty days neither to ninety days own best one offered, in the respect of the strategies indicated in the triennial Operations plan.

3. The question of participation to the public selection, besides necessary requirement for the release of the authorization of which to article 11, it must also document:
  1. a program of coherent activity with the which put on purposes and spaces;
  2. the technical-professional suitability, satisfied from the presence of the professionalities demanded for the accomplishment of the activities correlated to the concession, attested from the directory of activities previously carried out, relevant to that object of the concession;
  3. the organizational suitability, satisfied from the adequacy of the organic one and/or technical, material and instrumental equipments;
  4. the suitability economic-financial institution, satisfied from suitable bank statements, and/or balances or extracted of budgets, and/or total turnover or relative turnover to the similar activities to those of the concession.
4. If more questions, are favorite, with motivated provision, the petitioner who offers better guarantees about the correspondence of the programs of activity of the enterprise to the characteristics and the programs of established development of the port from the triennial Operations plan.

5. The concession action, among other things:
  1. it determines the duration, the powers of vigilance and control, the modalities of eventual cession of the systems to new concessionaire;
  2. it indicates the modalities of calculation, revaluation and deposit of the relative canon;
  3. it can preview the realization of harbour works, also of great infrastructuring, at the expense of the fixed concessionaire and the relative guarantees.
6. The regional Administration carries out assessments every anniversary to the aim to verify permanere of requirement in possession at the moment of the release of the concession and the performance of the investments previewed in the activity program.

7. In the hypothesis in which independent request of concession reaches, this is published for extracted on the Gazette of the Region Friuli Venice White Julia and on the praetorian one of the Municipality, with the invitation to who of it has interest to introduce within advanced a not inferior term to twenty days neither to ninety days observations and oppositions or eventual concurrent requests. The not compatible requests with constraints of town-planning, landscaped and environmental character are irricevibili enforced.

8. With the provision of which to article 11, codicil 4, they are determined also, also in consideration of influential the national and international policies tariff on the traffic of Alto Adriatico, the parameters in order to define the limits minimums and maximums of the annual canons and the bail in relation to the duration and the specificity of the marine state property concession, held you anticipate the volume of the investments and the activities to carry out; in particular, if, according to the codicil 5, letter c), it is to exclusive cargo of the concessionaire the realization of harbour works, also of great infrastructuring, that is structures of difficult removal, the minimal limit, limitedly to the zone interested from the works, it is reduced, respective, of the 50 percent and the 25 percent. In case the hypotheses rerun both, the total reduction of the canon cannot however exceed the 50 percent.

9. It is made saves the free use of the state property pieces of real estate by public administrations for the development of functions relating to marine and harbour activities.

10. It is made, also, it saves the free use of the state property areas by subjects publics, in case the occupation of the same ones becomes necessary in order to realize work or participations of public interest.


Art. 13
(Partnership public/private - finance of project)

1. The regional Administration can stipulate conventions that, using the instrument of the marine state property concession of which to following article 36 and of the navigation code, they put into effect models of private public partnership/or of finance of project to the aim to allow the realization of works and/or infrastructures not otherwise attainable. Such conventions, according to article 17 of the regional law 20 March 2000, n. 7 (Consolidated act of the norms in matter of administrative procedure and by right of access), and of article 11 of the 7 law August 1990, n. 241 (New norms in matter of administrative procedure and by right of access to administrative documents), characterize the modalities of exercise of the concession, also in exception to the discipline in matter of use of the assets publics.

2. The procedure of selection of the enterprises that ask to realize and to manage economically harbour infrastructures with the contribution of private capital happens in the respect of the following principles:
  1. compatibility with the principles and the dispositions of the European Union;
  2. technical approval of the project, also to the aims than previewed to codicil 3;
  3. adoption of the procedures in matter of contracts for the execution of public works;
  4. acquisition of the work realized to the marine Federal property upon maturity of the concession without some indemnification for the concessionaire.
3. Al fine to allow the recovery of the carried out investments, the concessionaire, by authority received of the regional Administration, can lease, with by right private contract according to article 1571 of the civil code, the realized work to enterprises in possession of the authorization of which to article 11, towards fee of a not inferior canon to that established for analogous fattispecie.

4. The regional Administration disciplines to the relationships with the subjects publics or private owners of areas and systems, of which to article 5, codicil 3, assuring:
  1. the distribution of the services of general interest to the indifferenziata user;
  2. the application of coherent rates with the tariff regime applied in the harbour within;
  3. the participation of the precited ones subject to the managerial general burdens of the port.


Art. 14
(Approval of the projects)

1. The projects are subject to the regional discipline in matter of public works of competence of the Region.

2. For the works of great infrastructuring to come true in the harbour within of the port of Monfalcone, the project he is subordinate to the opinion of the characterized state technical organ in the understanding of which to article 11, codicil 1, letter aa), of I decree legislative 111/2004, that it is expressed within forty-five days from the demand; passed such term uselessly, the opinion is returned by the competent regional structure in harbour infrastructure matter.

3. The approval of the projects constitutes, where necessary, varying to the harbour Town development plan, subordinately, in case of contrast with the town-planning forecasts of the communal general town development plan, to the favorable accomplishment of the procedures of which to article 6, codicil 7.


Art. 15
(Resources for the development of the portualità)

1. The entrances are destined to the development of the regional portualità for a reason or purpose of:
  1. canons of concession of assets of the marine Federal property and the territorial sea comprised in the harbour within;
  2. canons for the authorizations for harbour operations and services;
  3. proceeds deriving from the supply of the services of general interest;
  4. financings finalized from Been about to the activity carried out in the harbour field and of infrastructures;
  5. financings of the European Union, let alone of other national and international organisms and public institutions for the realization of specific projects in the within of the competence matters;
  6. contributions and subsidies of the Region, public bodies, associations and private;
  7. every other jettison at sea previewed from laws or agreements;
  8. bequests and donations.
2. The entrances deriving from the canons and the proceeds of which to codicil 1, letters a), b) and c), are destined to support the expenses for the management of the Port of Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro.



HEAD V
FINAL NORMS

Art. 16
(Transitory and final Norms)

1. The authorizations and the concessions which released to the date of effectiveness of anticipate law, remain enforced until the expiration previewed from the title and the relative canons, being given the adaptation anniversary based on the Istat indices, are introitati by the regional Administration, according to article 9, codicil 5, of decree legislative 111/2004.

2. In the blackberries of the definition of the understanding with the State of which to article 4, to the aims of the acquisition of the opinion of the state technical organ, the Region, in the respect of the principle of loyal collaboration, assures the participation to the procedure by the competent Head office of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, let alone of the Interregional Provveditorato for the Public works for Veneto, Trentino Alto Adige and Friuli Venice Julia.

3. In the within of the ports of Monfalcone and Porto Nogaro the dispositions of law 84/1994, and next modifications, not incompatible are applied hereby law.

4. The procedures for the release of the authorizations and the concessions according to, respective, of article 16 and article 18 of law 84/1994, and next modifications, hanging to the date of effectiveness of anticipate law are defined in the respect of the national dispositions.


Art. 17
(Norms financial institutions)

1. The entrances deriving from the canons and the proceeds of which to article 15, codicil 1, letters a), b) and c), are assessed and collected on unit budgetary 3.1.104 and chapter 1865 of new institution for memory in the state of forecast of the entrance of the pluriennale budget for years 2012-2014 and of the budget for year 2012, with the denomination <<Proventi deriving from the canons of concession of assets of the marine Federal property and the territorial sea comprised in the harbour within, let alone by the authorizations for harbour operations and services and by the proceeds deriving from the supply of the services of interest generale>> and they are enrolled in the next exercise in the state of forecast of the expense of the regional budget for the purposes previewed from same article 15, codicil 2.
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Transalpine rail freight traffic still under pressure despite economic recovery
Transalpine rail freight traffic still under pressure despite economic recovery
Bern
The road runs faster than the rail
Artificial intelligence drives global trade, despite Middle East and tariffs
Artificial intelligence drives global trade, despite Middle East and tariffs
Geneva
The WTO's barometer is rising. Demand for semiconductors and electronic components is offsetting geopolitical tensions.
Green light for €1.35 billion in investment in the port of Bremerhaven.
Bremen
It is the largest amount of funding the federal government has ever allocated to a project in the state.
APM Terminals Signs Agreement to Develop Nigeria's Badagry Port
Copenhagen
Four kilometers of docks with a draft of -18 meters would be built
Renaissance Partners has signed a binding agreement to acquire De Wave Group.
Genoa/Milan
The Genoese company will be sold by the American company Platinum Equity
Decarbonizing shipping: a €36 billion challenge and a €45 billion opportunity for Italy
Cernobbio
Without investments in ports, Italy risks losing 80 billion euros in added value by 2050.
Canadian unions want BC Ferries to build new ferries in British Columbia
Delta
The company's latest order was to Chinese company CMI Weihai
Filt, Fit, and Uilt should withdraw the amendment that puts port businesses and cooperatives at risk under Article 17.
Rome
The unions fear the progressive replacement of a structural function of the port with precarious forms of work
Norwegian Nor Cruises signs MoU with China's SWS for 2+3 new cruise ships
Shanghai
The units would have a gross tonnage of 84,000 tons
In July, ship traffic in the Suez Canal increased by +27%
Cairo
In the first seven months of this year, maritime traffic was 8,244 ships (+15.9%)
Tomorrow Kombiverkehr will launch an intermodal connection between Regensburg and the Interporto Quadrante Europa
IMO, the Net-Zero Framework remains stalemate: agreement on carbon pricing is still lacking.
London
38 states voted in favor and 17 against. Formal adoption postponed until December.
Brussels launches the Maritime Industrial Alliance
Brussels
The EMA, the new EU instrument to coordinate industry, member states, and investors in the maritime sector, is born.
The safety and sustainability of ship recycling operations must also be guaranteed in the downstream work phases of the supply chain
Geneva
This is underlined by the representatives of the unions belonging to IndustriALL Global Union
Study to create a maritime corridor between the UK and the US using nuclear-powered container ships
London
Two Filipino sailors killed from ship attacked Monday in the Strait of Hormuz
Riyadh
Bahri VLCC Sidr hit
Shipowners' associations welcome proposal to include two Indian shipyards in EU list of ship recycling facilities
Brussels
BIMCO, ECSA, ICS, Intercargo, Intertanko and WSC consider this an important step towards addressing the structural capacity shortage in the European list
In Panama, the provision that protected the confidentiality of port concession contracts has been repealed
Balboa
The Panama Maritime Authority has accepted the request for transparency made by President José Raúl Mulino.
Fincantieri and TKMS sign agreement to strengthen collaboration in the underwater segment.
Trieste/Kiel
The agreement does not provide for mergers or acquisitions
Philippine terminal operator ICTSI to acquire African port operator TLG
Manila
The company operates in Mozambique, Namibia and South Africa
EU ship recycling facilities are operating well below capacity as European vessels continue to be dismantled in Asia
Brussels
This is reported by a study by Shipbreaking Platform and Transport & Environment
In the second quarter, cargo traffic in the Moroccan port of Tangier Med reached a new record
Anjra
Growth of +6% recorded in the first six months of 2026
Container shipping market recovery drives COSCO Shipping Holdings' quarterly results
Container shipping market recovery drives COSCO Shipping Holdings' quarterly results
Hong Kong
The Chinese group has ordered 12 new 22,000 TEU container ships and six 3,200 TEU ones.
G20 trade accelerates in second quarter
Paris
Imports of goods and trade in services are driving growth, while exports are maintaining a strong pace
La Spezia Container Terminal invests €90 million in port equipment for the new Ravano Terminal.
La Spezia
OOIL's half-year results are weighed down by the negative performance of the first quarter
Hong Kong
The January-June period closed with a net profit of 729.3 million dollars (-23.6%)
Port of Livorno: The Regional Administrative Court (TAR) has annulled the extension of the coastal landscape restriction to the port and hinterland areas.
Florence/Livorno
SBB CFF FFS Cargo returned to profit in the first half of the year
Bern
The Swiss group's trains transported over six million passengers (+1.3%)
White House denounces practice of "illegal" port transshipment to evade U.S. tariffs
Washington
IMO urges naval missions to counter rising piracy in the Gulf of Aden
London/Riyadh/Southampton
The very large crude carrier "Amzan" of the Saudi company Bahri was attacked in the Red Sea.
CMA CGM and Red Sea Gateway Terminal finalize agreement for Terminal 4 at Jeddah Port
Paris
The planned investment amounts to approximately 434 million dollars
The slowdown in the Chinese economy is reflected in port traffic
The slowdown in the Chinese economy is reflected in port traffic
Beijing
In July, overall traffic decreased by -3.4%, with a contraction that no longer only concerns domestic trade, but is also starting to affect goods with foreign countries.
In the second quarter, freight traffic in the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven grew by +6.0%
Bremen
In the first six months of 2026 the increase was +5.9%
Gela's Porto Rifugio has received a favorable opinion for dredging the port's waters.
Palermo
Approval from the Technical-Administrative Committee of the Interregional Office for Public Works
Greenbrier Europe to produce NIK transshipment system for TX Logistik
Troisdorf/Berlin
Allows rapid loading of non-craneable semi-trailers onto trains
Maersk opens its own logistics center in the heart of Germany
Herleshausen
Located in Herleshausen, it has a surface area of 71,800 square meters
South Korea's HJ Shipbuilding & Construction Co. wins orders for four new 10,100 TEU containerships
Busan
The contract has a total value of approximately 500 million dollars.
Democratic Party: The government's port reform paves the way for privatization of Italian ports.
Rome
Ghio and Misiani: it also takes resources and skills away from the territories
Port self-production: The Council of State denies the segmentability of the authorization pursuant to Article 16, paragraph 3.
Rome
Cartour's "partial" authorization in the port of Salerno has been suspended.
Port of Miami closes fiscal 2026 with record cruise traffic
Miami
The threshold of ten million passengers has been exceeded, compared to 8.56 million in the previous financial year.
The Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of the new pure car and truck carrier Grande Egitto.
Naples
Its load capacity reaches 9,800 ceu
Port reform will be discussed in Genoa on October 2nd.
Genoa
Workshop organized by the AdSP and the Altero Matteoli association
Fratelli Cosulich strengthens its logistics network with the opening of Express Global Dubai
Dubai
Teresa Cosulich will be responsible for the new logistics office.
"A Sea of Switzerland" will be held in Lugano on October 9th
Lugano
Ninth edition of the International Forum on Transport and Infrastructure
Brullo Group orders three 40,800-ton deadweight oil/chemical tanker vessels
Rome
Order to the Chinese shipyard Anhui Shipyard
New attack on a ship in the Strait of Hormuz
Southampton
A bullet caused minor injuries to two crew members
A new megayacht production, maintenance, and storage hub opens in Trieste.
Trieste
Trieste Shipyards was founded by Seadock (Samer group) and Yachting Expertise and is owned by Friulia
Confitarma applauds the government's initiative to protect Italian ships in the Red Sea.
Rome
Zanetti: Maritime security is, in effect, a component of national economic security
Unions approve the platform for the single collective bargaining agreement for the shipping industry.
Rome
Filt, Fit and Uilt, is structured around three central elements such as salary, protection, participation and thirteen concrete requests
FHP Intermodal is increasing the frequency of its freight rail service between Fiorenzuola and Incoronata/Bari.
Milan
It goes up to five days a week
This year over 2,000 large yachts operated along the Italian coasts
Rome
Plus 10% for owned boats and a substantially stable trend for chartered ones
The event "Cyber-resilience in the maritime sector: defense, regulations, and European cooperation" will be held in Rome on Tuesday.
Rome
It is organized by Var Group and Confitarma
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Smeup, with the acquisition of HTG, expands its portfolio in the logistics and transport sector
Erbusco
The Turin-based company specializes in the development of proprietary software
Saudi Arabian ports: Liquid bulk throughput to decline sharply in 2025
Riyadh
Total traffic fell to 298.3 million tonnes (-10.9%)
A delegation from the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda visited the port of Livorno
Livorno
In-depth comparison of their respective infrastructure development plans
New OOCL service between the Western Mediterranean and Canada
Hong Kong
Collaboration with Ocean Alliance companies and other carriers
The port's future is at the center of the event celebrating the 80th anniversary of Assosped Venezia and Asamar Veneto.
Venice
A conference on Friday will be the highlight of the festival
Increase in port workers at the ports of Monfalcone and Milazzo
Rome
Green light from the General Directorate for Ports, Logistics and Intermodality of the Ministry of the Interior.
Cargo traffic in Greek ports is sharply declining
Piraeus
Stagnation in passenger numbers
Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal has purchased eight Eurolight Dual bimodal locomotives
Rome
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong grew by 22.1% last month.
Hong Kong
Total for the first eight months of 2026 unchanged
AGV Expo, a new European trade fair dedicated to self-guided vehicles, will be held in Piacenza next month.
Genoa
The event will also host a rich program of conferences
Massive transnational fraud discovered in the road haulage sector
Chieti
Illegal employment of non-EU workers
Cargo traffic at the port of Singapore decreased by -4.9% in August
Singapore
In the first eight months of 2026, the port handled 30.7 million containers (+4.2%)
Cochin Shipyard and Drydocks World to jointly develop new international ship repair center in Cochin
Mumbai
An Iranian merchant ship was hit in the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran/Southampton
One sailor died and four other crew members were injured.
In July, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna grew by +6.7%
Ravenna
A sharp decline of -21.2% is expected for August
Giulio Stoppa is the new general secretary of Trasportounito
Rome
A choice of continuity that at the same time marks the beginning of a new phase
Meyer Werft begins construction of the Carnival Tropicale cruise ship
Papenburg
With a gross tonnage of 180,000 tons, it will be able to accommodate over 6,000 passengers.
The launching ceremony of Viking Astrea took place at the Fincantieri shipyard in Ancona
Ancona/Los Angeles
Viking's Board has authorized a share buyback program of up to $1 billion.
VTG sells its UK subsidiary VTG Rail UK to pension fund USS
Hamburg
The company operates in the railway freight wagon leasing sector.
The Genoa Coast Guard reaches its 100th Port State Control inspection of 2026.
Genoa
More than 250 deficiencies have been detected so far
ABB and Oceanly collaborate to integrate and optimize ship performance and operations
Genoa
Strategic agreement between Federlogistica and the Port of Xiamen
Genoa
Feasibility study for a maritime connection between the Chinese port and Genoa
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles remained stable in August
Los Angeles
The increase in empty garages has offset the decrease in full ones
Gulftainer to acquire stake in Thailand's Suksawat Terminal
Sharjah/Bangkok
It is located on the Chao Phraya River, in Bangkok
Robo.ai establishes a company specializing in maritime and submarine security
Abu Dhabi
Al-Mansory: We will produce locally and provide solutions for markets around the world
Kombiverkehr has taken full control of Spanish company Combiberia
Frankfurt am Main
The shares were acquired from the other 20 members
US forces hit five Iranian oil tankers
Tampa
Attacks in the Gulf of Oman and near Kharg Island
Conditions met for the acquisition of AD Ports by Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund
Abu Dhabi
Construction of the above-ground section of Genoa's new breakwater has begun.
Milan
Construction of the wave barrier is underway
For the first time, a woman leads the Panama Canal Authority.
Balboa
Engineer Ilya Espino de Marotta's term will expire in 2033.
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
Port reform will be discussed in Genoa on October 2nd.
Genoa
Workshop organized by the AdSP and the Altero Matteoli association
"A Sea of Switzerland" will be held in Lugano on October 9th
Lugano
Ninth edition of the International Forum on Transport and Infrastructure
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Cosco Shipping arm readies China IPO to capitalise on global shipbuilding wave
(South China Morning Post)
Rosatom expects cargo traffic along Northern Sea Route to rise 14% in 2026 - CEO
(Interfax)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Blu Navy has acquired a stake in Banca dell'Elba
Portoferraio
Schenone: We are a group united by the desire to contribute to the economic and social development of the island.
HMM signs a contract worth approximately $3.5 billion with Vale
Seoul
It involves the maritime transport of iron ore on behalf of the Brazilian company
Kongsberg Maritime signs deal to buy Finland's Steerprop
Oslo
The Rauma-based company designs and manufactures marine propulsion systems
New drug seizure in the port of Livorno
Livorno
53 kilograms of pure cocaine in a container from Peru
In the first three months of 2026, freight traffic in Belgian ports fell by -4.0%
Brussels
Landings and embarkations decreased by -2.0% and -6.4% respectively
A series of meetings on the new Port System Master Plan for the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado has begun.
Genoa
The new concession agreement with Amico & Co Spa has been finalized.
MacGregor will celebrate the 65th anniversary of its Italian branch in Genoa
Genoa
The company is based in the Naval Repair area of the port of Genoa
Port of Ravenna: Extraordinary maintenance of the "truck-accessible" section of Via Baiona has been approved.
Ravenna
Anemoi wind propulsion system to be installed on a Maersk container ship
London
The aim is to increase the ship's energy efficiency and reduce its emissions.
The selection process for the new Secretary General of the Central-Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority has begun.
Ravenna
Expressions of interest to be submitted by September 21st
MacGregor opens a new technical assistance center in Trieste
Stockholm
The main focus will be the European area, including the specialized megayacht sector.
Tanker hit by three shells in the Strait of Hormuz
Southampton
An accident also in the Indian Ocean
Floriana Gallucci is the new secretary general of the Ionian Sea Port Authority.
Taranto
The Management Committee of the institution has approved the appointment
Crew of ferry that sank in Northern Cyprus arrested
Nicosia
Eight people died in the accident. 17 other passengers are missing.
Singamas's profit halved in the first half of 2026
Hong Kong
The Chinese company is focusing on energy containers. During the period, sales of specialized containers exceeded those of standard boxes for the first time.
CIMC sells more containers, but profits plummet
Hong Kong
Half-year profit in this business segment fell by -81.2%
In the first half of this year, China
COSCO Shipping Ports reports record quarterly and half-year revenues
Hong Kong
Net income for the first six months of 2026 was $276.6 million (+23.2%)
In the first six months of 2026, CMPort's revenues grew by +13%
Hong Kong
Net profit up 7.4%
Meyer Werft revenues to grow by 107% in 2025
Papenburg
The financial year ended with a net loss of -383.8 million euros
Messina will launch the new West Med Line scheduled service in September
Genoa
It will bring together existing services for Algeria and Libya
The launch of the luxury cruise ship Oceania Sonata was celebrated in Marghera
Trieste
The unit is scheduled for delivery in 2027.
Tarros will include the port of Salerno in its Italy-Libya Express service.
La Spezia
The vessel "Vento di Zefiro" will be placed on the route
MPCC reports declining quarterly results as part of fleet renewal plan
Oslo
Kuehne+Nagel's honorary president has died.
Schindellegi
Klaus-Michael Kühne had joined the family business in 1958
In July, Spanish ports handled 47.7 million tonnes of goods (-1.8%)
Madrid
Containers amounted to 1,581,071 teu (-5.6%)
A shipment of 65 kilograms of cocaine was seized in the port of Livorno.
Livorno
It would have brought in around 20 million euros to the criminals
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