The Municipality of Villa San Giovanni anticipates demanded of adhesion of the city port to administrative division of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro



The mayor of Villa San Giovanni, Rocco La Valle, has made visit the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro in order to personally deliver the deliberation of the town council that has given start to the procedures of adhesion of the port of the citadel of the Strait of Messina to administrative division of the harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro and the Calabria. The Valley has met the president and the general secretary of the harbour agency, Giovanni Grimaldi and Salvatore Silvestri.

The adhesion procedure previews the demand to the ministry of Infrastructures and of the Transports to approve of, with specific I decree, the insertion of the port of Villa San Giovanni in administrative division of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro. The town council - Rocco La Valle has explained - has undertaken this choice afterwards to some precise and historical considerations on the lacked development of the port and its outskirtses. Classified, already in 1901, port first category, the harbour port of call of Villa San Giovanni from is always used by the Railroads of the State. Over the years, and beginning from 1960, the pier south is given in concession to the Caronte&Tourist society, while to the extremity it is in existence the realization of a pier sottoflutto dedicated to the diportistica.

The Valley has remembered that, in the light of how much having from law 84/94, every port must be endowed of harbour town development plan, fundamental instrument for the planning of the port of call that, but, the port of Villa San Giovanni has not never had. "Draft of a lack - the mayor has explained - that has prevented to its natural evolution and development. All this has generated inefficient services, confrontation between the institutions and, above all, the hostility of the users in confronts of the local authority".

Leaving from these considerations and, above all, for giving overhong to a port that manages very 7,5 million passengers, the municipal administration of Villa San Giovanni has decided "of riappropriare itself of an occupational part of the territory who until today them are removed together with the economic potentialities and that of is derived". In order to reach this objective the concrete will has put down in writing to take part of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro and the Calabria.

The Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has announced that, once concluded the adhesion procedure, the first implementation will be that to make the contest for the confidence of the professional assignment for the editing of the Portuale Town development plan, activity that is up to the general secretary. In the optical to guarantee a greater development of the port of call, the PRP will plan the development previewing, ulteriorly, the reinvestment of the deep ones in order to guarantee a strategic offshoring of the current landings place with the possibility to ridestinare some areas of the docks to new withins as the fishing boat, tourist-diportistico and the shipbuilding one.

The president of the Harbour Authority has emphasized the importance of the adhesion of the port of Villa San Giovanni. "Draft - Grimaldi has confirmed - of a port of call that, to the state, enlivens 7,5 million passengers, 700 thousand average heavy and 2,5 million automobiles. And that it has remarkable potentialities of ulterior increase. They are numbers, these, very important that serve to thwart the strategic importance of this port, between the more important of the Calabria and Italy. The Harbour Authority will use the deep ones, eventually introitati, plowing back them in the territory for the benefit of the port and, therefore, of the city of Villa San Giovanni".

Mayor Valle has been said totally satisfied as "this project goes legacy to the strategies designed from my compages that have been engaged to realize an integrated system of public transport in intercommunal within and that, operatively, will guarantee a meaningful fleeting increment of the traffic with the ulterior perspective to put into effect a service of directed connection, to means hydrofoils, with the smaller islands".

"Thanks to the adhesion to the harbour Authority, finally - he has concluded the Valley - the local authority, that he will sit to the table of the Harbour Committee, will have the opportunity to affect decisively the planning of the participations, on the base of choices harmonized with perspectives of development of the entire territory and a port of call that the door of the continent represents towards the Sicily. My thanks goes to the governor of the Calabria, the member of parliament Giuseppe Scopelliti, that it has believed and lively supported which convinced this important chosen because of its goodness and, above all, of concrete fallen back the economic ones that will derive some".