ROMA – “The Simplifications Decree Law, approved yesterday by 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 the revision of the regulations governing healthcare services on board ships” – states the president Angelo D’Amato. “As the National Seafarers’ Fund, we have worked alongside the Shipowners’ Associations to promote proposals and amendments, thanks above all to the constant sensitivity of Hon. 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”.
“The activation of the National Digital Registry of Seafarers is also taking shape” confirms the procurator Alessandro Ferrari “ which also includes the digitization of the seafarers’ Navigation Booklet: a long-awaited step forward, fundamental in the path of technological innovation for the maritime world. We started a dialogue with the General Directorate of the MIT led by Patrizia Scarchilli in April, building a project together with Assarmatori and Confitarma, presented to the MIT in July.
“The acceleration to realize this project” continues Ferrari” is mainly thanks to the president of the Chamber of Deputies’ Transport Commission, Hon. 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 Maritime Labor Committee) at the end of June: Hon. Deidda effectively activated the collaboration between the MIT and the Department for Digital Transformation. This initiative truly represents a turning point to simplify, digitize and make the maritime sector more efficient and the National Seafarers’ Fund confirms its availability to be the operational arm of the MIT”
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During the Interministerial Committee for the Digital Transition chaired by the Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Sen. Alessio Butti, the Undersecretary of State Tullio Ferrante highlighted how the unified AnGeMar platform, interoperable and accessible via digital identity, will allow for the simplified management of data relating to professional qualifications, embarkations, certifications and careers of maritime personnel and the dematerialization of the navigation booklet, also in a digital IT-Wallet version, reducing paper obligations and guaranteeing the immediate availability of professional information, in line with the Pnrr objectives.
These new developments and the importance of training as a tool to increasingly attract young people to maritime professions will be discussed on December 3, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., during the event organized by the National Seafarers’ Fund in Rome, with the participation of the main ITS and Training Centers. The event can be followed at the link and at 2 p.m. an institutional round table will take place.
