A task force to solve the problems that beset the category and, more generally, the entire sector of which this is part. Cyclically, sooner or later, all organizations that represent companies, and generally those most dependent on other systems of companies, propose the establishment of groups of representatives of different fields of activity and institutions for address and resolve organically and more effectively issues that have been dragging on, often wearily, for years. Just as often, these initiatives start with conviction on the good intentions that the proponents have collected. What always happens, they reap them almost exclusively in fields institutional areas where there is always consensus for projects whose The only cost is to dedicate some time to it. Passed from words to deeds, after the first one or two meetings, the interest diminishes when first of all the exponents of the institutions, and already from the second meeting those who have been sent to represent them in their place, they sense that the task is not like that as well as the collection of adhesions to the project could have made it clear that when other players in the sector lose interest in an initiative they have not promoted.

But, since persevering is not diabolical in what It is not a mistake, that is, to seek a comparison with those who have the power to move things and with those who can contribute to making the action dynamic, this year, in Genoa, tries again the association of shipping agents of the city.

Of course, then, whoever is the proposer always takes care to underline that what he envisages is a new project, A road not traveled previously and perhaps landed in nothing. So too Assagenti, launching in his assembly today annual idea of establishing "a new body of consultation and, at the same time, problem solver, which is not composed only of the traditional maritime cluster categories, but also by the manufacturing industries of the North-West quadrant (Liguria, Piedmont and Lombardy, but also from Emilia Romagna)", points out that the proposal is the one "that for simplicity has been called a completely anomalous "desk" and inspired by the utmost pragmatism, such as to impose even on the Establishment of methods and timeframes for addressing and solving the problems of the most important Italian logistics-industrial hub as well as an extension of port digitization to the entire North-West".

A proposal, the association is careful to reassure, "that was in fact accepted both by the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, and by the president of the Liguria Region, Marco Bucci, who explicitly made reference to the need to break down barriers and obstacles bureaucratic ones". And we would miss it.

According to Assagenti, "the Genoa assembly marked a ideal turning point in the debate that seemed to have stagnated for months on issues political and the controversies that still hover over the appointments bringing it back to the role that the largest Italian port (equipped with the new dam and a network of connections) is a candidate for in a Mediterranean that has once again become central".

A Mediterranean that, however, is central today because is surrounded by the spread of wars in the Middle East that risk completely interrupting traffic through the Suez Canal which is the main gateway of what risks becoming a lake basin surrounded by as it is further east even from a region that since the Russian invasion of Ukraine knows only more instability than before and is besieged to the west by the repercussions of a war, which started as a commercial war with the new tariffs introduced by Donald Trump, which risks turning into a war when the American president, realizing that its peacemaking intervention in Eastern Europe, and perhaps tomorrow in the Middle Eastern regions, will not be heard by Some, as it has been since the beginning of his second and, childishly stamping his feet on the ground as has done so far, will decide that it is time to press some button, hopefully not the one that only he can crush.

Returning to Assagenti, his desk has no intention (less bad!) to smooth out these problems as well, limiting itself to the objective "to synergistically solve port, logistical and by breaking down bureaucratic barriers".

Celebrating today the 80th anniversary of its establishment, being The association was born "in 1945 when their port was destroyed by bombs", the hope is that they don't want us other bombs for a restart like the one at that time when the logic - recalled the president of Assagenti, Gianluca Croce - it was "that of doing". We are convinced, indeed we are certain and we believe that Assagenti is too, that it can be "done" even in a time of lasting peace.

Bruno Bellio