Prompt the Grendi group the Harbour Authority of Genoa to verify the plans of enterprise of the terminalisti to the aim to free areas



The shipowning group and terminalistico Grendi runs the serious immediate risk of having to leave the port of Genoa and not finding in the short term an alternative landing place for its regular marine line with the port of Cagliari.

Tomorrow its concession to the genoese terminal of Libya Bridge will expire and up to now the negotiations have not had positive outcome that the group has lead in order to obtain spaces in areas managed from other genoese terminalisti, between which that intavolate with the Terminal Fruit, than work as Grendi in the harbour area of Sampierdarena, with the VTE, that it manages the terminal of the area of Voltri, with the group Joints, with which Grendi has participated (losing it) to the contest for the allocation of the Multipurpose terminal in whose aimed at Libya Bridge falls back, and with the same Messina-Gavio network that has won the contest for the Multipurpose and that it presses for to install itself on the area ( on 1° June 2010).

After to have covered multiple roads in order to reach to an agreement with other operators, to the Grendi group they do not remain that meager margins of action that the company has illustrated this morning to print to which has evidenced that, with its escape from the port, Genoa it would per year lose an enterprise with traffic of 100.000 teu, with 120 dependent in Italy of which 35 to Genoa, with two ships and 60 people of edge to spin, with 200 people of induced to Genoa and with 200 annual ports of call in the port of the capital of Liguria that mean job for pilots, ormeggiatori and tugs.

An alternative in order to allow with the group to remain to Genoa, according to Grendi, would be. Or better: us of they would be two. The Harbour Authority could decide to newly postpone the concession, road that but - the agency of Saint George Palace has many times over restated - is not percorribile, or however Confidence to other subjects of the activities could guarantee the permanence of the Grendi group to the Libya Bridge resorting to article 45 second of the Navigation code ("object of the concession"), based on which "the concessionaire, in exceptional cases and for determined periods, by authority received of the competent authority, can entrust to other subjects the management of the secondary activities in the within of the concession". In such case it would have to be the new concessionaire, and not the Harbour Authority, to deliver to Grendi the management of an area, but also in this hypothesis - second the summits of Grendi - the harbour agency could carry out an essential role promuovendo such confidence.

The second alternative - according to Grendi - would consist in the verification by the Harbour Authority of which the volumes of traffic enlivened and the generated occupation are the deserving companies to manage areas of the port of call estimating some. In such case - for Grendi - areas with the resource to codicil 9 of article 18 of the harbour law of reform would get rid n. 84 of 1994 which establishes that "in case of lacked assumed observance of the obligations by the concessionaire, let alone of lacked attainment the objectives indicated in the activity program, of which to codicil 6, letter a), without justified reason, the Harbour Authority or, whereby not instituted, the Marine Authority they revoke the concessorio action".

My son can protest if the control the diary, but I have the duty to make it. This roughly is the retort of Costanza Musso, commercial director of the Grendi group, when we have remembered them the rise of shield of the genoese harbour terminalisti when the former president of the Harbour Authority of the capital of Liguria, Giovanni Novi, preannounced a control of the plans of enterprise of the companies of the port.

The answer of Costanza Musso synthetizes what its company considers that the current management of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, guided from president Luigi Merlo, would have to be decided to make in confronts of the terminalisti: to begin to verify the plans of enterprise introduced from the several societies in order to verify, exactly, if the enlivened volumes of traffic from every terminalista, than work on state property areas, they are congruent with the positioning and the extension of the entrusted harbour area in concession.

"The port - the official notice of entrusted the Grendi group reminds to the journalists - is a government property that is given in concession to the private ones on the base of enterprise plans. If we do not monitor the enterprise plans, we favor inefficiency of the system and the race to the real estate speculation of large groups".

The risk - Costanza Musso and its brother Eugene have confirmed, administrator of the Grendi group - is that "the investments in the terminals become real estate investments". According to two Musso - "there is a race to buy up square metres of port that evidently have a value, but that then they are not used for new traffics".

Eugenio Musso has explained that the harbour agency has confirmed its intention to carry out such verifications, but has specified but that meantime is forced to assign the contest of the Multipurpose. "The Harbour Authority - it has accused Costanza Musso - does not have to only make the notary public". The critic of the Grendi group in confronts of the Harbour Authority is not to have verified the enterprise plans before to assign the terminal: if "before he had monitored and then assigned - according to Grendi - it would be itself shrewed that those people to which assigns a new terminal in the port of Genoa are the same ones that does not succeed to respect the plans of enterprise of the their old terminals. He is as if a bank before distributed a financing, and only after it to have distributed he went to verify if the beneficiary has been punctual in the payments precedence".

The accusation - heavy - is not to know or to want to at best manage harbour areas between most gainful of Italy. The medium yield of the areas - Costanza Musso has explained - is for example of 4 container teu to the square metre in the port of, while to Genoa it is of single 1,2 teu to the square metre (1,4 teu before the crisis). Musso has emphasized as instead, own for the nature of its traffic constituted from a cabotage line of which the logistic chain controls all, the Grendi group is able to make meaningful numbers in areas of reduced dimensions with yields square metre that are at least double (2,6 teu), but in some quadruple periods also (4,4 teu to square metre to Ignazio Inglese Descent in 2008 in a terminal of 18.000 square metres) regarding the current yields of the port of Genoa. Also they have remembered that Grendi in the years of the crisis, with a concession to Genoa whose lasted maximum it has been of four months, has continued to grow traffics (+27% from 2007 to 2010), investments (33 million investments in the business in the same period) and occupation (always +30% in the same period).

The possibility that Grendi closes down to Genoa is next. "On 16 June - Eugenio Musso has confirmed - the Yellow flames could succeed in to seize all". Up to now the group is not successful to find areas alternatives within and outside the port of Genoa, also in consideration of the difficulty to retrieve spaces to manage directly as terminalista company: "we - Costanza Musso has explained - cannot be customers. With a single line we must control is the departure port of call that the arrival port of call".

The risk is also - they have evidenced Constanta and Eugenio Musso - than the traffic goods with the Sardinia, already mostly gravitates on Livorno, moves totally on the Tuscan port in lack of a reliable alternative in the port of Genoa.

Two months ago the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Liguria had rejected the resources introduced from the groups Grendi and Spinelli against the allocation of the Multipurpose to the Messina-Gavio network ( on 22 April 2011). Constanta and Eugenio Musso have confirmed that their company has not still introduced resorted against this sentence near the Council of State.

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