The board of the National Maritime Fund (FNM) has announced that the digital registry of seafarers and the digital navigation are law following the promulgation of the Decree-Law 19/2026 which, in Article 11, establishes AGEMAR (the National Digital Registry of Seafarers, aimed at the Digital and interoperable management of career data qualifications, embarkations and qualifications, and seafarers' certifications) and initiates the process for the digitization of the navigation logbook.

"The digitization of these processes - underlined the president of the National Maritime Fund, Angelo D'Amato - is A historic result that places the Italian flag at the level of the most advanced world flags. The path stems from a our shared planning with Confitarma and Assarmatori, developed together with Formare and Oltremare and proposed to the director general of MIT, Patrizia Scarchilli, in 2025".

The National Maritime Fund explained that the path is was emphasized during the conference organized by the Committee of Maritime Labour in Procida last summer, and had a concrete acceleration thanks to the synergy between the president of the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Salvatore Deidda, and the Directorate General of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport who have started an active dialogue with the Department for Digital Transformation of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, using PNRR funds. The Fund and the employers' associations, in sharing with the trade unions, have supported the administrations in the construction of the standard up to the result published in "Official Gazette" a few days ago.

"We will guarantee - assured the FNM prosecutor, Alessandro Ferrari - maximum collaboration with the MIT structure for this innovative step forward to be achieved, making ourselves available from now on also for operational management together with Confitarma and Assarmatori, with the aim of making available to companies and workers this tool of simplification that will make it even easier for Italian shipping companies and shipping companies".