OBS_VALUE: Regarding the transport of goods by maritime transport, the regulatory body is the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, which approves regulations approved by each port authority. See ministry website http://www.mit.gov.it/mit/site.php?o=vh&id_cat=80  The law usually refers to the Ministry of Communications as the regulatory body. However, recent modifications of the Italian government transformed this Ministry into the Ministry of the Economic Development transferring the regulation of Maritime transport services towards the Ministry of Transports and Infrastructures.