Encounter to Rome on the criticalities of the port of Gioia Tauro



Summit this morning to the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports on the criticalities of the port of Gioia Tauro. To the encounter, presided from minister Altero Matteoli, to the president and vice-president of the Calabria Region have participated, Giuseppe Scopelliti and Antonella Stasi, the leaders of the ministries of the Economic Development and the Job, the president of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Giovanni Grimaldi, the trade-union representatives of Cgil, Cisl, Uil, Ugl and Sul and the representatives of Contship Italy and Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT).

In the course of the reunion a deepening on the possible solutions is started in order to allow throws again of the calabrian port and the safeguard of the occupational levels and, on proposal of minister Matteoli, has been decided of riconvocare a new next the 5 encounter that will hold July to hours 12. The amount of time will serve to realize a series of deepenings and encounters on the several opened issues, in sight to reach the auspicious results.

"I have particularly appreciated - minister Matteoli to the term of the encounter has declared - the balance and the good sense of the unions in facing a so complex emergency and the companies involved in the logistic activity of the port of Gioia Tauro for their availability. I above all thank also president Scopelliti and the representatives of the ministries of the Economic Development and the Job for the demonstrated attention and for the essential contributions that they will bring in the search of the necessary solutions in order to throw again the important harbour system of Gioia Tauro and meanwhile in order to safeguard the occupation".

It has been be a matter - the president of the Region Calabria Scopelliti has asserted - of "a profitable encounter, where the firm will by the government has been evidenced to take part on the problematic one of Gioia Tauro. Minister Matteoli has been firm in restating the attention of all the government towards the port of Gioia Tauro. Demonstration is the presence to the appointment of all the interested ministries, to begin from same minister Matteoli and the viceministro to Infrastructures, Aurelio Misiti". "Between the main objectives of the argument - Scopelliti has explained - that to accelerate on the front of the Agreement of Program Picture, to maintain the strategic role of Gioia Tauro in transhipment and the safeguard of the occupation. I thank minister Matteoli - he has concluded - for its firm position towards the territory and for the availability to value the great resource that Gioia Tauro represents for all our region".

The today's encounter, "however interlocutorio - it has found the general secretary of CISL Calabria, Paolo Tramonti - is served to with clarity delineate the situation that in this moment crosses the port of Gioia Tauro. Against the position assumed from the company to very proceed to the positioning in mobility 467 workers - the trade-union leader has explained - CISL acknowledges to the minister of the Matteoli Infrastructures and to the governor of the Calabria Scopelliti to have from the beginning shared and supported the express position unitarally from the labor organizations of clean contrarietà to any which questioned hypothesis of the current occupational levels. Request that at the end is received positively by the MCT". "CISL - it has concluded - Sunsets - it considers that the reunion already convened for next the 5 July will have to be finalized to place the conditions for a concrete throws again, it is from the point of view of the transhipment that of the logistics, our port and to guarantee conditions of full occupabilità".