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The port of Gioia Tauro annuls the taxes of anchorage for the ships of great dimensions
The provision is approved of today unanimously by the Harbour Committee
April 27, 2011
Today the Harbour Committee of Gioia Tauro has approved of unanimously the regulations that afford to the Harbour Authority to pull down until 100% the taxes of anchorage for the harbour ports of call that fall back in its administrative division, that is Gioia Tauro – Crotone – Corigliano Calabro and Taureana of Palmi.
Explaining that the objective of the measure is to guarantee stability in the increase of the traffics connecting the incentive to the largeness of the ships, the calabrian Harbour Authority has evidenced as last year, when for the first time the agency - appealing to own resources - has chosen to offer facilities to the shipowners that scale Gioia Tauro until to reduce of 90% the harbour taxes, the initiative has produced optimal results.
The new regulations preview the discouragement of the taxes of anchorage to adopt beyond based on precise modalities of calculation that will head to offer 100% of the reduction of the tax to the ships of great dimensions, pairs to 100 thousand tons and. The Harbour Authority has specified that in the approved of regulations today, to the aim to stimulate the arrival of new customers, an innovative clause is included that aimed to attract other shipowners beyond those already anticipates in the calabrian port of call making so that for they releases the immediate discouragement of the taxes pairs 100%.
The Harbour Authority has emphasized that the current provision is alone the first step that the agency, in the within of own strategies, has decided to cover to the aim to equip to the calabrian port of call of all the instruments necessary in order to maintain its leadership of Italian port of call of transhipment and in order continuing to offer an opportunity of economic increase to the entire region.
While in the first trimester of this year the increase of the traffic of the container in the port of Gioia Tauro is continued started in the second half of 2010. In the first three months of the 2011 port of call it has enlivened 722,235 teu, with an increment of 11% regarding the correspondent period last year. In particular, 206,601 teu they are relative last month of January, 249,562 teu to February and 266,072 teu to March.
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Today the Harbour Committee of Gioia Tauro has approved of unanimously the regulations that afford to the Harbour Authority to pull down until 100% the taxes of anchorage for the harbour ports of call that fall back in its administrative division, that is Gioia Tauro – Crotone – Corigliano Calabro and Taureana of Palmi.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
