harbour the economic community and of Salerno says not to the abolition of the local Harbour Authority



Saturday economic the harbour community and of Salerno, reunited in the center of Salerno Confindustria, has expressed own contrarietà to the abolition of the Harbour Authority of Salerno with the amalgamation of the port to the Harbour Authority of Naples, as assumed in the within of the proposal of reform of the legislation on the advanced national portualità from the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi. During the reunion the document is illustrated, that we publish below, sent to the minister.

"The confindustriale system - it has emphasized the president of Salerno Confindustria, Mauro Maccauro - follows with attention the hypothesis of reform of the ports and has already expressed own perplexities respect to a new order that - also to the North - previews amalgamation criteria that they do not answer to a functionality ratio. In the same way, the natural proclivity of the enterprises salernita some to the export, the increase of the markets and the policies of sustainabilities turned to a modal re-balance is ineludible factors that need of an optimal operation of the port of call Salerno province. We wish, therefore - it has added Maccauro - a reform that bases on a system of premialità that values the performances of operation of the ports of call, the best practices already existing and holds account of the single peculiarities of the territories. And we express all our worry regarding the eventual reorganization of the weight of the private member to advantage of the subjects publics in the management of the governance harbour. For such reasons we consider important to put in field a sinergica action between the economic operators and the institutions to the aim to ask for initiatives that ulteriorly put to risk our economy, already heavy hit from the crisis".

"The numbers - it has declared Agostino Gallozzi, president of Assotutela (Associazione for the Protection and the Development of the Port of Salerno) - speak clearly for the port of Salerno, than confirmation more consisting the system-enterprise of the province, also for number of occupied, and it characterizes for two important excellence indices: first it regards the amounts of goods enlivened for square metre, for which it is between first in Italy and between first in Europe; the second is relative to the efficiency in the realization of the public works: 200 million euros engaged in little years for the today already fit for use infrastructure realization, to which they go added other 75 million euros for the realization of the Great Project, that it has achieved also the green light from the European Union for I use it of deep the already available ones. For such reasons - it has concluded Gallozzi - the salernitana harbour community opposes itself firmly to a reform that previews the abolition of the Harbour Authority of Salerno and the amalgamation to the Authority of Naples".

Confindustra Salerno

Assamar

Assotutela

As.Sa Spe.Do

FAI/Conftrasporto

Ill.mo Mr. Ministro
of Infrastructures and the Transports
On. Dr. Maurizio Lupi
Large square Carries Devout, 1-
00198 Rome (RM)

Salerno, 9 April 2014

Most illustrious Mr. Ministro,

alarm and worry provoke in harbour atmospheres Salerno provinces the insistent news with respect to the announced reform of law 84/94, than - in articulating a reduction of the Harbour Authorities - the cancellation of the organism previews also Salerno province and the amalgamation of Salerno to the Harbour Authority of Naples.

The entire harbour cluster Salerno province considers that, mail in these terms, the reform represents an unjustified and infallible damage for the port of Salerno, where daily private entrepreneurs, with own work force, engages huge resources and offers a efficient logistic system, to which a highest quality is recognized, in a position to supporting and stimulating the economic exchanges and the internationalization of our industry. A harbour system that annually feeds the cases of Been about to beyond 13 Mld, between Vat and the octrois, and that today it is questioned, coming pointed out as a burden more than a resource.

We consider that it is not the number of the Harbour Authorities, neither Legge 84/94, still an optimal law, to generate the endemic problems of the Italian portualità, but the pathology with which often is contaminated the criteria of management and functionality the Authorities, failing to the correct spirit who animated to the origin the formulation of the law

And it is the perverse crossing between pathology and bureaucracy, with which the same Authorities must meet daily, to paralyze the realization of participations actions to or the development of the marine, harbour and intermodal traffics (es: dredgings, infrastructural requalification, varying to the harbour town development plans, etc.). And therefore, even if the diagnosis on the evils of the portualità can be shared, sure it is wrong the proposed therapy, that it gets worse and does not improve the things.

The port of Salerno, the greatest system-enterprise (not assisted) of the province, also for number of occupied, characterizes for two important excellence indices: first it regards the amounts of goods enlivened for square metre, for which it is first in Italy and between first in Europe.

The second regards the efficiency in the realization of the public works that has seen our port to engage in little years beyond 200 mln of euro for the harbour infrastructure realization, today already fit for use, to which they go added to others 75 mln of euro for the realization of the Great Project, that it has achieved also the green light from the European Union for I use it of deep the already available ones. This data is in controtendenza regarding the alarm launch from the State Audit Court, that it evidences, relatively to the works managed from other Harbour Authorities, marked profiles of criticalities consisting, in particular, in the accumulated delays in the performance of the participations of infrastructural requalification, for a total pairs to about 1.500 billion, a part of which does not turn out concluded to beyond a decade from the adoption of the programming actions!

Salerno, we restate, is in evident controtendenza: the attainment of such performances has been possible graces to an intelligent and constructive collaboration between the public-institutional member, the private-entrepreneurial member and the work force, each able, in own role and the grip observance of the dictations of law 84/94, of giving the best of himself, in strong and not conflict unit of attempts. We can certainly say that Salerno represents a part of the Italy that works.

We wonder, therefore, which advantage could never carry to the solution of the infrastructural problems of the Country the abolition of the Harbour Authority of Salerno.

It will be able also to have consents from the public opinion, lend itself to a winning reading from spending review, but in fact it hides increasing profiles inefficiency, unacceptable for our harbour system, aggravating and not resolving problems of pathology and bureaucracy to which reference has been made! However in a country encircled from the sea, to the center of the Mediterranean, with a complex orography, he seems natural to find a harbour system so diffuse and articulated on the territory, in the within of which Salerno expresses the just irreplaceable role in Southern Italy in favour of the export of the Made in Italy. Neither the harbour system is "exportable" in Italy European North where - on the contrary - the front is limited sea and is the much extended flat hinterland continental one, favoring the increase of little ports and an immense internal distribution network.

We wonder, then, second which criterion would be chosen the Harbour Authorities, the Harbour Districts, but above all that value would assume the past performances in the maintenance and the choice of the governance of the ports of call,

Probably nobody if, as it seems, currency the unacceptable hypothesis that the port of Salerno can be accorpato and managed from the Authority of Naples, where would go to coexist two harbour truths that, also sharing little important territorial belongings, are in the totally disomogenee facts for history, values, type of market, operating, dynamic organization of increase, bureaucratic slimness, realizzativa ability, sharing of attempts and objectives.

Current Legge 84/94, if applied without pathological deformations and freed from laces and laccioli of a suffocating bureaucracy, is a law that allows with the portualità to grow and the enterprises to develop itself, to create added value and occupation. Same it already contains the indications - that they could also be dawned - in order to constitute or, as already previewed to art. the 6, 8 codicil and codicil 10, to reduce the number of the ports center of Harbour Authority, in the presence of insufficient volumes of traffic. Without a doubt this is not the case of the Harbour Authority of Salerno

This could they and ulteriorly evidenced from the attainment of the wished autonomy financial institution of the ports, with the attribution to they of the jettison at sea of pays generated. In such eventuality only the truly deserving ports will be able to maintain own status, in a healthy regime of and lawful competition, that it can do good the Country, in terms of improvement of the services and of concorrenzialità only de costs.

We consider, moreover, that it represents a strong regression towards the past, very similar to the bankrupt management of the old “Harbour Agencies”, craftsmen of the deficit creation monster, to entrust the governance of the ports to the single public member, forgetting that the entrepreneurial member is the true heart pulsates of the economy of the commercial ports of call of the country. The composition of the previewed Harbour Committee from Legge 84/94, not only guarantees the balanced presence of all the members de harbour world, but it can also assume correct the function of a permanent conference of the services.

Sure Legge 84/94 can be subordinate to maintenance operations particularly with respect to the nomination of the Presidents. And he is sure favorable that Harbour Authorities pertaining to the same Region, or bordering areas, activate from each other covered vituous of coordination, but without to sure distort the legislative system and without accorpare ports that carry out important activities, This would aggravate and it would not resolve the problems of the portualità, with greater bureaucracy, complication of the procedures, minor reactive ability regarding the market, disparagement of the entrepreneurial and occupational initiatives, lacked competitiveness.

Italy, in conclusion, does not need less Harbour Authority, but of good Harbour Authorities where finally on bureaucracy and pathology meritocracy prevails, best practice, transparency, respect of the rules.

Strong of the excellent experience of the Harbour Authority of Salerno, we can assert that this is possible and works very well, thanks to corrected law enforcement 84/94! And this that works does not go modified.

Therefore we say ours NOT, arrest warrant and absolute, to a reform that goals the abolition of the Harbour Authority of Salerno and the amalgamation to the Authority of Naples. We say with force, sure to safeguard our port of call from the disaster of a announced decline, strong of the successes that they have carried our Port to the summits of the portualità of the Country, thanks to the engagement, to the tenacity, the sacrifices and the vision of many entrepreneurs and workers, to the ability to Institutions that have demonstrated in the field to know to work well, in the absolute respect of the rules, in the transparency and the sharing of common objectives to advantage of a shared development, All this will not be able neither will have to never be put to risk, with actions improvvide, than nothing they respect of our history, of our it anticipates laborious and of our future.

AS SA.SPE I GIVE. ASSOCIATION SALERNITANA CUSTOMS BROKERS	Alberto FABBRICATORE
ASSAMAR ASSOCIATION MARINE AGENTS RACCOMANDATARI SALERNO	Giuseppe AMORUSO
ASSOTUTELA ASSOCIATION PROTECTS AND DEVELOPMENT PORT OF SALERNO	Augustin GALLOZZI
SALERNO CONFINDUSTRIA	Mauro MACCAURO
F.A I./CONFTRASPORTO	Angelo PUNZI
AMORUSO GIUSEPPE PLC	Antonio AMORUSO
ASSOCIATION STELLA MARIS SALERNO	Antonia AUTUORI
CAMORANI SHIPPING SRL	Alexander CAMORANI
C.A.P.S. - TRANSPORTS	Giovanni MEMOLI
C.U.L.P. FLAVIO GIOIA	Antonio AUTUORI
DELLA CORTE & C. SRL	Federico DELLA SHORT
F. & P. SRL	Paschal CASTAGNA
GALLOZZI GROUP	Augustin GALLOZZI
GALLOZZI SHIPPING LTD	Vincenzo GALLOZZI
GF LOGISTICS	Enrico GALLOZZI
INTRAMAR MARINE AGENCY	Giuseppe CAMORANI
DEPARTMENT STORES	Antonio DE CESAR
MARIMED SRL	Antonino RUSSO
MARISPED MARINE AGENCY	Stefano ANNUNZIATA
ORMEGGIATORI PORT OF SALERNO	Luciano HEAD
SALERNO TUGS	Antonio SERAPHS
RESOURCE SEA/CONFINDUSTRIA KNOWS	Marco DE CESAR
S.M.T. CANTALAMESSA AM	Tito CANTALAMESSA
SALERNO CONTAINER TERM1NAL	Augustin GALLOZZI
SALERNO MARINE STATION	Horace DE NIGRIS
SALERNO CRUISES SRL	Giuseppe AMORUSO
SALERNO TRANSPORT SERVICE	Vincenzo GALLOZZI
S.I.C.P. SALERNO HARBOUR ENTERPRISE COMPANY SRL	Luigi CAMORANI
TERMINAL YIELDS SALERNO	Alessandra AMORUSO
T.P.S. HARBOUR TRANSPORTS SALERNO PROVINCES	Giovanni MEMOLI
VITALE LUIGI SRL	Giuseppe VITALE