The associations of the Italian port cluster Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica, Assoporti and Uniport sent today to the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, to the Minister of Labour and Social Policies, Maria Elvira Calderone, Deputy Minister Edoardo Rixi and the members of the Committees IX and XI of the Chamber of Deputies and VIII and X of the Senate a letter to highlight the need for the specific measures for port work are introduced.

In the letter, the associations explain that they have learned "that some amendments to the AC measure would not be accepted 1532-bis, containing "Provisions on labour", in particular, amendments on port work tabled both by parliamentarians of the majority and of the opposition. In particular - explain the organizations of the port cluster - We refer to the amendments where it is envisaged: the identification of some port work profiles among the strenuous jobs; the remodulation, only formal, of the rule which, for over two years, provides for the establishment of the fund for the incentive of the Retirement for port workers. Especially the latter proposal, which does not entail any additional burden on the budget provided for an exclusively technical solution to make finally enforceable the path of establishment of the fund with resources that companies (by express contractual provision) and Port System Authority (by law already have been setting aside for several years".

"It is, we reiterate as is known - they specify in the letter - of a technical solution identified on the basis of the merit assessments expressed by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Finance and the Ministry of Labour and Social Policies on the hypothesis of an interministerial decree implementing it at the time prepared by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. Therefore, we have difficulty understanding the motivations of the non-acceptance of proposals, in particular the one relating to the "Fund" aimed at maintaining high standards of safety, efficiency and effectiveness of a strategic sector such as the port one; relevant in terms of and the prospective stability of social and of the Italian port sector".

"We therefore hope - conclude Ancip, Assiterminal, Assologistica, Assoporti and Uniport - which, within the refinement of the regulatory proposal mentioned above (if and as far as still possible) or in another measure regulatory in progress or in the process of being developed, the requests of the undersigned associations".