“The Simplifications Decree Law, approved yesterday at the Chamber of Deputies, introduces long-awaited measures for our seafarers and for the competitiveness of the national fleet, both for streamlining the recruitment procedures and for the hoped-for start of a review of the regulations governing health services on board ships”.
This was stated by Angelo D’Amato, president of the Fondo Nazionale Marittimi, a body established in implementation of a 1981 agreement between the Confederazione Italiana degli Armatori (to which Assarmatori has more recently adhered) and the seafarers’ trade unions, which aims to pay the unemployment benefits provided for by the Statute, the Regulations and the current Collective Labor Agreements to enrolled Italian seafarers (workers who are not in an active employment relationship).
These are the words of D’Amato: “As the Fondo Nazionale Marittimi, we have worked alongside the shipowners’ associations to promote proposals and amendments, thanks above all to the constant sensitivity of the Honorable Maria Grazia Frijia but also of many other majority and opposition parliamentarians, as well as to the administration’s willingness to finally begin accompanying this process of modernizing the Italian flag”.
“Furthermore, the activation of the Anagrafe Nazionale Digitale della Gente di Mare is taking shape” added the attorney of the Fondo Nazionale marittimi, Alessandro Ferrari, “which also includes the digitalization of the seafarers’ Libretto di Navigazione: a long-awaited step forward, fundamental in the path of technological innovation for the maritime world. We started a dialogue with the Direzione Generale of the Mit led by Patrizia Scarchilli in April, building a project together with Assarmatori and Confitarma, presented to the Mit in the month of July”.
“The acceleration to realize this project – continued Ferrari – is mainly due to the president of the Chamber’s Transport Commission, Salvatore Deidda, who understood and accepted the modernization request, also shared during the Conference on maritime work held in Procida, on the initiative of Fabio Pagano (president of the Comitato Lavoro Marittimo) at the end of June: the Honorable Deidda effectively activated the collaboration between the Mit and the Dipartimento per la Trasformazione Digitale. This initiative truly represents a turning point to simplify, digitalize and make the maritime sector more efficient, and the Fondo Nazionale Marittimi confirms its availability to be the operational arm of the Mit”.
During the Comitato Interministeriale per la Transizione Digitale chaired by the Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Senator Alessio Butti, the Undersecretary of State Tullio Ferrante highlighted how the unique AnGeMar platform, interoperable and accessible via digital identity, will allow for simplified management of data relating to professional qualifications, embarkations, certifications and careers of maritime personnel and the dematerialization of the seafarer’s record book, also in a digital IT-Wallet version, reducing paper obligations and guaranteeing the immediate availability of professional information, in line with the Pnrr objectives.
