The Sardinia Region confirmation the intention to extend the operativity of the Saremar fleet to all the year



The Sardinia Region has the intention of extend also to the winter season the operativity of the fleet of the Saremar, the company of former navigation Tirrenia that is passed under the property of the Sardinian regional agency. Yesterday, in the course of a audition to the Commission Public works, communications of the Senate, the president of the Sardinia Region, Ugo Cappellacci, has confirmed that the experimental phase of the managed marine connections from the Saremar "has been shut positively" and has added that "the Region is estimating the possibility to continue the activity also during the winter period, characterizing a synergy between transport fleeting and transport goods".

With respect to the resource introduced to the Regional administrative court from the Italian Company of Navigation (CIN), the shipowning network that has adjudicated the acquisition of Tirrenia ( on 26 July 2011), against the deliberation n. 36/6 on 1° September of the Sardinian regional committee who throws again the activity of the Saremar giving them possibility to organize the activity of the fleet on all the year, Cappellacci has said that "such resource must be considered groundless, as the activity of marine cabotage is liberalized".

In the course of the audition, that it is carried out to resumption of the suspended sitting on 22 September, Cappellacci has emphasized that the state of the connections from and for the Sardinia is gotten worse, remembering, for example, than Tirrenia it has recently communicated that, not being available the Florio ship, the connections from and for Cagliari will be carried out with a having ship goods the maximum ability to 80 passengers. The president of the Sardinia Region has remembered that the agency has forwarded a signalling to the EU commission, considering that the procedure of privatization of Tirrenia is not in compliance with the enforced normative picture. Moreover, in spite of the relative functions to the territorial continuity they are transferred to the Region - it has added - this last one has not been mail in condition for exercising them.

Cappellacci therefore has confirmed that the Sardinia Region intends to get ahead the undertaken initiatives, not accepting a situation that - it has specified - has been born from the decision of compages of private operators to increase the rates and to start a process that exposes to serious prejudices the principle of the territorial continuity and the right to mobility.

Cappellacci has continued evidencing that the traffic from and for the Sardinia is diminished of 30% and that a million passengers in less solo regarding the Gallura have been recorded, as confirmed from the statistical consuntivo which announced tuesday from the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North ( of 11 October 2011), and it has specified that the initiative of the Region does not have the ambition to satisfy all the question of connections, but constitutes a contribution that has had effect to determine a price cutting of tickets. With respect to the increase of the rates of the marine connections Cappellacci it has found that the increases have not regarded in the same way all the drafts and this - has found - raises doubts with respect to the fact that such increases can be determined from the increase of the price of the fuel.

In the course of the audition the city council member of the Transports of the Region Sardinia, Christian Solinas, has observed that the context in which the Tirrenia event has been carried out is characterized by the fact that, while the marine cabotage is liberalized, has not been however date performance to the transfer to the Region of the functions of territorial continuity, that they continue to be managed from the ministry.