Competitivity, when talking about a maritime-docking-logistics system and a “symbol”, is measured today accordingly to new parameters that have now combined with the old, traditional ones, such as being able to quickly manage a large number of load units, the infrastructure equipment of the docks and the inner harbors, quality and consistency of the fleets.

Today, the burden of bureaucratic costs, especially when not directly related to a single shipping, is a major factor in competitivity loss for a company, that accounts for choosing certain venues, routes and ports of call instead of others. These problems must be solved quickly, so that we can avoid increasing the gap between our system and its competitors.

The technological evolution of ships, the growing complexity and standardization of operations, the increasingly pervasive automation both on board and in port, the aging of the crews, all these factors exacerbate the need for the maritime-port-logistics system to train and update its personnel throughout their entire career. The only possible solution is a renewed engagement in training, from the basics up to its most professional levels, and to do this constantly, on a periodic or specific basis.

In an environment rich in fierce international competition, faced with competitors that rely on weapons such as low wages and intensive use of labor, advanced maritime-port-logistics systems, including the Italian one, must learn how to involve all available forces. Erasing any gender gaps in shipping and logistics is both an ethical imperative and an opportunity for development. It must be accompanied by merit-reward policies to bring out the talents. Equal opportunities are first and foremost equal opportunities to express one’s abilities.

 

2 p.m. – Chairman: Gian Enzo Duci, President, Federagenti

Welcome greetings
Nicola Carlone, Commander, Genoa Coast Guard

Panel Discussion

The competitiveness factors of the marine-logistic harbour system: the point of view of the shipowners
Alberto Rossi, General Director, Assarmatori

Mario Mattioli, President, Confitarma

The Harbour Master and the application of European Regulation 352/2017
Pietro Preziosi, Captain of Vessel, Port Authorities

Andrea Morandi, President, YOUNGSHIP Italia

Fabrizio Monticelli, Sole Director, IMAT

Gender gap in shipping
Greta Tellarini, Master’s Director of maritime, shipping and ports right, Università di Bologna

The ports of the southern Mediterranean shore
Fabio Enrico Pasquarelli, Director, Transport-Telenord
Pietro Roth, Editor in Chief, Transport

 

4 p.m. – Round table meeting among the Presidents of the Port Authorities on the factors of development of the system: economic resources, red tape, special regime, European models.

Co – Chairman: Umberto Masucci, President, The International Propeller Clubs
Co – Chairman: Alberto Quarati, Journalist, Secolo XIX

Welcome greetings

Giovanni Pettorino, Vice Admiral, General Commander Italian Coast Guard

C.A. (CP) Andrea Agostinelli, Extraordinary Commissioner, Port Authority of Gioia Tauro and Calabria Region

Giuseppe Burgio Calogero, AdsP Central-Northern Tyrrhenian Sea

Zeno D’Agostino, President, AdsP East Adriatic Sea

Massimo Deiana, President, AdSP of Sardinia Sea

Rodolfo Giampieri, President, AdsP Central Adriatic Sea

Francesco Messineo, General Secretary, AdSP of Central Tyrrhenian Sea

Pino Musolino, President, AdsP North Adriatic Sea

Alessandro Onorato, Vice-President and Sales Manager, Onorato Armatori

Sergio Prete, President, AdsP Ionian Sea

Carla Roncallo, President, AdsP Eastern Ligurian Sea

Paolo Emilio Signorini, President, AdsP Western Ligurian Sea

Tito Vespasiani, Secretary, AdsP Southern Adriatic Sea

6 p.m. Conclusion