The Association is nonpartisan, non-profit and aims to:
- Ensure the representation of the category in every forum and in particular in the central and peripheral bodies of the Public Administrations;
- To promote appropriate studies on any Customs, currency, tax, trade union and economic issues in general and anything else that concerns the category for those interventions that will protect its interests and make its business activities more;
- To promote studies and understandings on the adjustment and development of business structures to the changing needs of the maritime and port economy, as well as the needs for coordination within the European Union and within international organizations in general;
- Informing Member Companies on matters of common interest, communicating directives for a unified direction of their activities
- Promote and encourage all kinds of relationships that can benefit the Member Companies, working in this direction also through the Annual Meetings where all kinds of meetings with suppliers and customers should be encouraged;
- To promote and maintain in the category, both among individual Member Companies and externally, in the conduct of its business, a behavior corresponding to ethics, dignity to business fairness.