An extraordinary result – he underlined – that must be traced back to the initiative of the Calabrian port authority
Commenting on yesterday’s approval in the Chamber of Deputies of an amendment to the Infrastructure Decree-Law relating to the Agencies for the administration of work in the port (of 8 July 2025), the Port System Authority of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea highlighted that it is a a very important result that allows us to anticipate the transformation of the Gioia Tauro Port Agency into a port company pursuant to Article 17 – paragraph 5 – of Law 84/94, a company limited liability which will have as its object the
provision of temporary work to port companies (art.16 and 18 of Law 84/94).
The Calabrian port authority has announced that the amendment has found inspiration from a letter that the president of the Port Authority of Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea, Andrea Agostinelli sent to the President of the Calabria Region, Roberto Occhiuto, so that consideration should be given to the advisability of tabling an amendment to the
Infrastructure Decree aimed at overcoming the block on the transformation determined by the expiry of the Port Agency scheduled for December 31, 2026. Following the discussions that Agostinelli had with the lawyer Cantarini of the Office of Cabinet of President Occhiuto – specified the port authority -an amendment has been drawn up which bears the signature
by the Honorable Francesco Cannizzaro of Forza Italia. The amendment proposed the addition of paragraph 2-bis, according to which “in Article 4, paragraph 8, of the Decree-Law 243 of 29 December 2016, converted, with amendments, by Law 18 of 27 February 2017, the words: “Upon expiry of the thirty-six months’ are replaced by the following: ‘Until on expiry of the period referred to in paragraph 1’ and after the words: “the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport may” the following are inserted: ‘in any case'”. Paragraph 8 of Article 4 of Decree-Law /2016 provides that “at the end of the thirty-six months, if they remain in force to the Agency referred to in paragraph 1, workers who have not been re-employed, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport can authorise the transformation of this Agency, upon request of the competent Port System Authority and where the conditions are met, in an Agency within the meaning of Article 17 of Law No. 84 of 28 January 1994”.
Paragraph 1 of Article
4 of the decree-law establishes that, “in order to support
employment, to accompany the processes of reconversion
of industrial port infrastructure and to avoid serious
detriment to port operations and efficiency, in the
ports in which at least 80 percent of the movement of goods
takes place or has occurred in the last five years in
transhipment mode and have persisted for at least five years
states of corporate crisis or cessation of activities of
terminals, exceptionally and temporarily, for a period of
maximum not exceeding ((one hundred and fourteen months)), starting from
1 January 2017, the Italian Supervisory Authority of the
Port System, in agreement with the Ministry of Infrastructure and
Transport, by resolution of the Management Committee or the Port
Committee where it exercises its functions in prorogatio, establishes
a company for the administration of work in the port and for the
professional retraining, which brings together the
workers made redundant in companies operating under
Article 16 of Law No. 84 of 28 January 1994, including
workers made redundant in companies holding concessions pursuant to
Article 18 of the aforementioned Law No. 84 of 1994”.
It is – commented Agostinelli – “one of the
extraordinary results that must be traced back to the initiative
of the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas
Southern and Ionian Sea, which strongly wanted the establishment of the
company, and to the active interest of the Cabinet Office of the
Regional Presidency and to Mr. Cannizzaro, whom I thank for
his sensitivity as well as President Occhiuto,
the lawyer Cantarini and the director general of the Ministry of
Infrastructure Donato Liguori. The new governance of the Authority
of the Port System will have the road paved towards the
establishment of the company pursuant to Article 17 of Law 84/94 which will absorb
the remaining workers still registered in the Agency’s list
and additional workers with the qualifications of interest to the
terminal operators for a total number of 100 workers”.
