by InTrieste
The two-day Sea Resources forum in Trieste (14-15 September), organized in collaboration with the The European House Ambrosetti, put back at the forefront of the national political agenda the sea, as well as the necessity to adopt a coordinated, strategic policy for environment, energy, ports, as well as tourism.
“This government has decided to work so that the maritime dimension and the thousand-year-old vocation to trade of our nation are finally rediscovered and given value,” said the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, in a video message sent to the forum. “We have chosen to reverse course, to finally look at the sea as a resource that must be valorized with an overall vision”.
The first step of this strategy is the sea plan, approved by the ministerial Committee for Maritime Policies and presented at the two-day event in Trieste (14-15 September). The document, drawn up by experts who brought together the needs and strengths of the ten ministries involved, aims to make the sea a permanent work platform to enhance the competitiveness and attractiveness of the maritime supply chain. In addition to protecting the sea from an environmental, logistical and economic point of view, the plan intends to promote the improvement of territorial continuity to and from the islands, promote the sea system at an international level and enhance maritime state property.
“For the first time we have brought together in the Interministerial Committee ten departments involved in the sea system, but which in the past have never had the opportunity to dialogue with each other”, said the Minister for Maritime Policies, Nello Musumeci. In the government’s belief, the sea can become an engine of growth for the entire country, especially for the regions of Southern Italy. Returning to the sea, therefore, starting from the Mediterranean. No longer considered a “frontier” sea, but a “hinge sea”.
