«The flexibility of Port Master Plans takes into account the relevant market in which the ports operate'. The highlights in a note the Italian Association of Port Terminal Operators (Assiterminal) explaining that "within the airports, the terminals, it should be remembered, operate under a competition but evidently also have concession structures outlined on the basis of market perimeters and areas that they must allow for the enhancement in terms of efficiency, compliance with economic and financial plans, development projects".

Referring to the ongoing debate on the bill of port reform, Assiterminal points out that "looking at today, but especially in the future, ports can no longer certainly be identified only as individual stopovers but as a set of supply capacities that the country system puts at its disposal of its industrial market, with a glance attentive extended at least to the Mediterranean and another to the rest of Europe. This - the association specifies - is also the spirit of the bill according to which any effect cannot be retroactive: this is said to be the certainty of the law"

Assiterminal then recalls another concept, which underlines the prerequisites of state-owned port concessions must be founded: "the planning tools, whether they are the Plan National Infrastructure, Port Master Plans, as well as Strategic System Planning Documents - notes the association - they must be consistent with a Overview of the maritime and land logistics market on which they impact in combination, considering that on the basis of the regulatory criteria currently in force, the operator terminal operator has built, together with the public administration, to through the Port System Authorities, its plan of business and its very reason for operating by virtue of the principle of effectiveness and efficiency, as well as enhancement of the port property, as well as, finally, legitimately, of the its ability to produce margins".

"On the basis of these considerations, which certainly presuppose flexibility of approach and management models - concludes the note - Assiterminal hopes that the discussion within the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Deputies and interaction with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport".