La relazione esistente tra i traffici turistici portuali italiani e il loro indice di efficienza

One of the most important Italian sectors is certainly the tourism sector and this theme, strengthened by a moment of economic stagnation such as that which is facing the Italian territory, is gaining more and more importance and to help the main transportation systems (by route, by railways, by sea, by flight) there’s the necessity to invest in infrastructures, providing the right maintenance and innovation on them to allow to compete against other countries. Starting in the year 2014, in 2016 the Italian port system has faced a national level reorganization, that it was looked for and strongly wanted by all the sector operators, this happened because the last legislative reform was edited in 1994 (the one that had established the port Authorities). The aim was to try to reunite under one unique “wing” all the port authorities with common interests, territories and that could take advantages by cooperation, establishing this way the 15 Port Authority System. The Port Authorities, every year, in addition of the annual report, indicate at the bottom of this document the efficiency index, that is nothing but the relationship between the own current revenues and the functional expenses. The efficiency index, thus constituted, assume a predominantly economic connotation (that has already been criticized because it doesn’t count the structure dimension, traffic, etc., but it just focus only on the first two voices aforementioned). It has been questioned if, and with which influence, the passengers traffic variations could impact on the efficiency. The corresponding value is brought back the voices B21, B22 and B23 (respective fleeting traffic inferior to 20 miles, ferry passengers and cruise passengers) of the annual report written from every Port Authority System and associated with the relative Index of efficiency. There is a “low correlation” with regard to B21 and B22 and the relative Efficiency Indexes to each Port System Authority. Different results appear for what concerns the correlation between B23. In fact there is a negative correlation. The reasons that explain this type of relationship are different and the subject of a more in-depth analysis.