In recent days a debate of great economic importance has taken place around the Italian Portuality on the possible reform of the governance of the port authorities. Maritime center of gravity was the city of Genoa where the President of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Edoardo Rixi and the Minister of Regional Affairs and Autonomies Roberto Calderoli met. The line dotted by Toti, Rixi and Calderoli focused on a possible administrative decentralization on a local basis of the management of Italian ports, transforming the same port authorities into joint-stock companies with regional and municipal shareholders, as happens in many European ports including Rotterdam. This vision also appeared to be fundamental for overcoming those procedural slownesses that unfortunately our system has imposed on itself for several decades now through centralized management.
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In fact, in port matters, the Del Rio Law, while reducing the port authorities, has introduced new procedures that have done nothing but slow down the decision-making process in every port area. An example of this was the introduction of the port strategic planning document, which, although created for reasons of streamlining processes and sharing decisions between entities, in the end proved to be a duplication of the port regulatory plan. A document therefore that has done nothing but slow down the process of creating the port regulatory plan which must be considered the "bible" of the development of the port for the next 20 years and consequently of the economy of the country, of the neighboring Regions and Municipalities. It assumes that with the regional port autonomy some of these problems can be overcome thanks to the greater flexibility of the decisions, taken by mutual agreement, by the member bodies of the future port Spa.
Ports must be seen as tools for making a country's economy grow and as a great opportunity to bring Italy back to the top of international trade and not as entities anchored in the cumbersome and slow processes characteristic of public administration. It is true that a national vision of the airports is necessary that knows how to combine the public interest of the Authorities with the objectives of European growth, but precisely to achieve these objectives it is necessary that the Regions and local bodies become the implementers of this vision by taking on of that public responsibility, not only towards one's own territories, but also towards Italy. It is precisely in this way that the national interest is done giving greater autonomy in certain matters to local authorities according to the principle of subsidiarity envisaged by our constitution. Loading also the territories with the "burden" of the country's development, that common policy of national interest will be implemented which will inevitably generate the related industries capable of increasing employment and Italy's GDP.
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