The Port System Authority of the Sea of Sicily Occidentale has announced that it is the first national port authority to have obtained funding for their training project envisaged by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan for the training for public sector staff administrations, managed by Formez on behalf of the Ministry of Labour and the Civil Service, thus succeeding in affirming the principle according to which, even a non-economic public body of national importance such as the Port Authority - to whose employees a private employment contract - is entitled to participate in this type of financing.

The Sicilian port authority specified that the funding is was granted at the end of a process that was anything but obvious, with a first phase in which a restrictive interpretation had prevailed which excluded the entity from participation, precisely because of the private nature of staff employment relationships. A orientation subsequently outdated, which allowed not only admission to funding, but also the affirmation of a a principle destined to set a precedent. "To achieve this financing - underlined the president of the Port Authority, Annalisa Tardino - means starting an important strengthening process internal expertise and, at the same time, create a precedent significant: the Port System Authority of the Sea of Western Sicily is, in fact, the first Port Authority to access this opportunity. This is a significant result, which represents a concrete lever to support the growth of the blue economy, addressing the challenges of the maritime sector and generating value public. But it is also a step forward in terms of equity, because it makes it possible not to leave unjustly excluded a An important part of public administration employees ".