The Government updates the “road map” and seeks discussions with the mayors of the cities where the port system authorities are located. The warning launched by the ANCI and the mayor of Messina seems to have made its impact, even if, at the moment, a date has not been set for the hearing of Federico Basile and his fellow mayors (of Milazzo, Villa San Giovanni and Reggio Calabria). The calendar, in reality, had been imagined as a series of forced stages, to reach the conclusion of the hearings before 2 July and to bring the bill on the controversial reform of Italian ports to Parliament in the first ten days of next month.
Meanwhile, after the weekend break, the hearings already scheduled in the context of the examination, in the referring body, of bill 2925, bearing the title “Reorganization of law 28 January 1994, n. 84, regarding port governance and relaunching investments in strategic maritime transport infrastructures of general interest”, resume before the Transport Commission of Montecitorio. Today the representatives of Fercargo and Fermerci will be heard; of the ANCE-National Association of Building Builders and of Federmanager. Furthermore, experts on the subject will intervene, such as Paolo Costa, Ercole Incalza, Luigi Robba and Mario Spampinato.
However, Deputy Minister Rixi’s openness to the requests of local authorities does not change the substance. Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, already in serious difficulty on the Strait Bridge front, does not want to lose this battle and considers the reform and the birth of the new company “Porti d’Italia Spa” to be “fundamental”.
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