UNIPORT and Assiterminal denounce that, with a letter that in These hours is reaching all the companies operating in the ports of Naples, Salerno and Castellammare, the System Authority Port of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea, in the name and on behalf of the Campania Region, is requesting to correspond to the body a tax on concession fees that for the year current fee can vary from 10% to 25% of the annual rent per duration of the concession deed, as well as the arrears for the previous five years.

"The result - explain Pasquale Legora de Feo, president of UNIPORT, and Tomaso Cognolato, president of Assiterminal - is that port logistics operators, cruise and cabotage connections in Campania by on 15 September (an absolutely unusual deadline and without previous ones) will find themselves in the position of having to proceed with the payment of additional amounts to what is due for the ordinary state concession fee. Moreover, with the pretense of additional penalties, interest and expenses that could reach triple the amount to be paid".

According to the two representatives of the port companies, "one This situation constitutes yet another act that goes in the direction of contrary to a need for a systemic vision of the ports in the country long claimed by the entire cluster maritime port of Italy, moreover after the recent Decree Infrastructure has certainly not settled the dispute on the unjustified increase in 2023. The burden is evident unjustified costs in an objectively critical phase for the port operators and a brake on the competitiveness of enterprises. Certainly a condition unparalleled in other regions which risks an emulation effect and which in fact alters the ability of Campania ports to compete in markets that are much larger than the territory of a single region and in, in some cases, can even put at risk planned investments and employment levels".

UNIPORT and Assiterminal have announced that they are already evaluating how to act and who will not fail to support the operators of the ports of Campania "to find in all the jurisdictional and political (regional and national) solutions to safeguard the competitiveness of and to re-establish competitive, if not identical, conditions at least compatible, with those of companies located in other Regions operating in the same national markets and international ones".