In Venice, an agreement was reached for the relative tender to the temporary work supply service in the port that had been challenged by the workers' representatives and had caused the strike that had been going on for eight days by the employees of the New Venice Port Workers Company. Explaining that "since last Friday the System Authority worked, together with Assoporti, to better manage the discussions with the representatives of trade unions and with ANCIP, The national association representing workers' companies the president of the System Authority Port of the Northern Adriatic Sea, Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, announced that "as early as last Sunday, the Port Authority had formally communicated and transmitted to the national unions and territorial areas, to Assoporti and ANCIP the clarifications that have become necessary on some aspects of the specifications of national importance. The clarifications, which are also necessary because of the numerous exploitations - underlined Di Blasio - have shown that: there has never been any attempt to upset the Law 84/94, the social clause has always been present in the Tender to protect workers, there has been no opening to the individual call or to the hourly rate. The dialogue with the trade unions it was therefore fruitful and and has made it possible to clarify the various aspects, in a path which has seen the important support of the Venice Port Community, which He brought the point of view of terminal operators. A last meeting decisive meeting held yesterday with ANCIP and Assoporti - he added - made it possible to refine some further aspects that improve the overall system. We have also improved the dutiful collaboration mechanism between the companies that will be awarded the service in Venice and Chioggia, in compliance with the law and in unitary vision of the port system of Veneto".

The president of the Port Authority specified that, therefore, "the tender procedure shall neither be revoked nor Canceled. The contracting authority - he clarified - will bring those additions to the special tender specifications that allow to better clarify the specific points of a contractual nature union; these additions will then be published on the e-procurement platform, as well as in the "Transparent administration" of the official website of the Authority. As a result of the publication of these additions/clarifications, the terms will simply be reopened of the tender procedure, with the allocation of an additional 45 days, to the economic operators concerned, to submit their offer. After ratification in the union assembly at the NCLP this morning, we will return to work".

Di Blasio concluded by highlighting that it is "a a very important signal for the port of Venice that once again "port system", for the workers who thus see the launch of the new call for proposals materialize and for the our terminals that need to welcome ships again".