Even Uiltrasporti rejects the hypothesis ventilated by the deputy premier Antonio Tajani to proceed with a privatization of ports, step which presumably would mean making docks owned private as has happened only in Europe. United Kingdom. "It is very worrying - said the Secretary General of Uiltrasporti, Claudio Tarlazzi, Referring to yesterday's statements by the representative of the Government - that a government party like Forza Italia puts at the center of the its own political initiative the privatization of ports that goes to affect such a delicate and important interest for the Country, creating conditions for their sale. A setting with which we can never agree and on which we will give battle'.

"60% of our country's 600 billion exports - Tarlazzi has emphasized - passes through the ports, privatize them then it would mean putting private interests before those of the country. Already in '94 Italy was a forerunner in Europe as far as concerns the privatization of port operations, but the scope of state-owned and the regulation system must maintain a publicistic approach and those who want the opposite will find always our firm opposition."