The Union Pilots denunciation the exclusion of the pilots of the ports from the measures of support of I decree I throw again



The Union Pilots complains that in the last governmental provision face to support the economic activities hit by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic is not held in some consideration the harbour pilots although they quickly have also it impact of the crisis. Referring to article 199 of the decree-law "I throw again 19th May" that it brings dispositions in matter of harbour job and marine transports, and in particular to the codicil 6 that recognizes indemnifications until 24 million euros to the operators of the mooring services because of the reduced carried out performances because of the crisis, let alone to the measures of support for the supplier subjects of temporary harbour job (former art. 17 of law 84/94), president of the Union Piloti, Vincenzo Bellomo, has denounced that analogous aids are not previewed for other harbour truths.

Finding that "reduced mooring performances" to which ago reference I decree are due to the lacked landings place the ships, Bellomo has evidenced that this has involved smaller returns also for the remaining part of the harbour cluster. "In truth - it has specified president of the Union Piloti - the Corporations Italian Pilots, also in the presence of dramatic decrease of the traffics and therefore, remarkable decrement of returns, employee theirs have not seen a single day of redundancy fund, making to weigh on all the economic weight the pilots effectives".

"The law - Bellomo has remembered - has recognized as a service public pilotage and of fundamental interest for safety of navigation, having cleared it therefore from any conditioning of privatistico character; the pilots are first to get aboard of the ship and the last ones to come down and never have not failed - above all in this and any other period of emergency - to theirs must guarantee safety of navigation and the continuity of the commercial traffics".

"The pilotage service, as famous - Bellomo has still remembered - with European Regolamento 352/2017 it is excluded by the liberalization, remaining in head to it a penetrating control and vigilance on its exercise. Of the determination of the rates is an example that must be effectively, as anyway until now happened, closely legacies to the costs for the increased service of the just emolument for the pilots. It will have not to underrate that, without a compensatrice measure - has observed president of the Union Piloti - the lacked which had returns to the reduced performances ripercuoterà unavoidably on the rates for the landing place of the ships, with intuitable they sensitive increase and - in a situation of this type, in occasion of renews tariff - will not be able to be invoked the customary sensibility and the sense of responsibility for the resumption of the traffics".

"Therefore, having news that the pilotage service will be addressee of a provision ad hoc - it has not emphasized Bellomo - we do not succeed to comprise as the pilots are not never considered deserving of the same support, assured to the mooring service, for the decrease of the traffics in the Italian ports deriving from the Covid-19 emergency. It is observed that having supplied support only to one of the services of the harbour cluster, it is not resolutive of the problem. If, the mooring rates will not be burdened of the costs deriving from the Covid-19 effects, equally that cannot be said of the other harbour services and the service of pilotage, for effect of the expectable tariff increases of the services returned in occasion of the landing place of the ship, could be determined a condition that it provokes a smaller competitive ability to the Italian ports of call, placing them outside market with obvious consequences also for the same service of mooring".

"We are sure - it has concluded president of the Union Piloti - than ministra Paola De Micheli, in case it wanted to grant the immense honor to dedicate to us some its most precious time to us, could reconsider the insertion of the service of pilotage between the addressees of the measures of support to the economy, recognizing so the professionality and the fundamental role of the pilots, proudly claimed, than it is carried out from the phase of income in port to that end of exercised departure and, outside from every rhetorical, with the dedication and the love that every pilot has of own profession".