The President of the Port Authority of Augusta, Aldo Garozzo, does not agree at all with the list of Italian ports and airports to be connected with the trans-European TEN-T to support exports and accelerate the growth of Italy that was drafted colleague Paolo Costa, president of the port of Venice, in an interview published last week in the newspaper "La Stampa".
"The airports priority of European interest and support its export to the block, to be connected to the networks to make them more efficient and competitive - had written: Paolo Costa - are Rome, Milan and Venice. The ports are those of the Upper Tyrrhenian (Savona, Genoa, La Spezia and Livorno), Adriatic (Ravenna, Venice and Trieste, as well as Koper in Slovenia and Rijeka in Croatia), Campania (Naples and Salerno) and Apulia (Bari, Brindisi and Taranto). More on transhipment at least in Gioia Tauro. "
Even if the general reported in the intervention of the President of the Venetian port authority concerning the infrastructure "to which eventually - said Aldo Garozzo - even our country looks set to relaunch economic growth, perhaps through a mix of private interventions / public, and a new criterion for selection of projects to be implemented using central agencies to be able to issue planning guidelines that take account of new market demands, "the president of the Port Authority but considers Sicilian 'inadequate' l ' list of infrastructure on which the proposed action, "especially - said Garozzo - to give rise to trans-European networks that follow, if I understand correctly, an old pattern desired and supported by its own in the past held the position as president of Costa President of the European Commission for a revision of TEN-T network. "
"Today - noted Garozzo - things are a little 'different, have evolved as a framework and in individual projects.No longer enough to have a central role in the logistics system, to be self-positioning of maybe achieved over the years, almost always with the help of a patronage and often totally lacking in transparency and public action that still requires heavy maintenance and upgrading, misinterpreting the new realities, which are strongly to the fore, such as systems that revolve around Civitavecchia port in Sicily and around Augusta. "
"You can almost trace - added Garozzo - the unfortunate design of Commissioner Kallas (European Commissioner for Transport, ed) which tends to enhance areas of the Baltic and penalize the southern Italian regions such as Sicily and Calabria in particular struck down by the new European programming , shifting to the north and west along the Spain - France, the entry of goods and people in Europe, erasing corridors (Berlin-Palermo), airports, ports, bridges, high-speed, etc... "
"All this - said the president of the Port Augusta - is unacceptable especially if they come from a priori considerations preconceived and improvised.Sicily now has ideas and projects in all fields of infrastructure, which, with wonder, however, does not fall within the long list of President Costa, but not devoid of interest on the part of operators, including foreigners, to invest considering strategic and innovative. I refer to the Strait of Messina Bridge, high speed, finally cleared at the port of Augusta and upgraded the system with other ports in Sicily, a new major airport, indeed intercontinental, in combination with existing ones. Perhaps all this is utopia, but the commitment is great as the realization of such works would return to Sicily her ancient and natural role as a logistics platform for the entire Mediterranean area of Europe and North Africa intercepting, for sky and sea, people and traffic along the routes east-west and south-north. "
"Maybe - concluded Garozzo - it is this which gives some discomfort, but that's what a new ruling class hopes Sicilian and he's working, and they are doing seriously and without prejudice, without excluding any of the existing realities, but rather with the hope of integration to improve the competitiveness of the country. "
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The President of the Port Authority of Augusta, Aldo Garozzo, does not agree at all with the list of Italian ports and airports to be connected with the trans-European TEN-T to support exports and accelerate the growth of Italy that was drafted colleague Paolo Costa, president of the port of Venice, in an interview published last week in the newspaper "La Stampa". 
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