Repetto (Province of Genoa): in the capital of Liguria it is necessary to institute a new marine operating cluster



To Genoa it is necessary to institute a new marine operating cluster. The president of the Province of Genoa has said, Alessandro Repetto, in occasion in its conclusive participation to the today's provincial council entirely dedicated to the port and opened from a relation of the president of the genoese Harbour Authority, Luigi Merlo.

A new organism "of impulse for all marine, shipbuilding, technological, navalmeccaniche and harbour the requests - Repetto has explained - is the last objective of my mandate". An operating arm and of impulse - it has specified - all new and to Genoa for the marine cluster, the development of the port "of the acquaintance" also through the new Its post diploma for the high tech, structures more to read and new forms legal in order to allow with the Harbour Authority to face the world-wide competitiveness, concrete national politics "that - it has emphasized - today not are" for the economy and the sea and a greater knowledge in the city of the fact that "the port is its main activity, and if sometimes it must also suffer it, it gives direct job and in the induced one to 20.000 people". An operating territorial organism "and of completely new impulse - it has added Repetto - for a cluster that focusses all the marine and harbour interdependences and functions because if there is a problem in the shipbuilding one, in the naval repairs, the technologies, the procedures, the activities must be a problem to which all the cluster it must answer together".

In its participation, commenting the previewed reaffirmation of Luigi Merlo to the presidency of the genoese harbour agency, Repetto has thanked "minister Matteoli in order to have signed decrees, agreeing with the president of the Region Teasing, before resignation of the government, with an action of great institutional respect. A behavior - it has added - that in other circumstances, with centre-left governments one has not happened".

The president of the Province has but restated that "in Italy it lacks concrete harbour economic politics and to this given the difficulties must to all that Luigi Merlo, also operating very well, has lived". In particular, it has asked that "the situation is exceeded, up to here demonstrated very conservation tillage, on law 84/94 in order to more guarantee to the Harbour Authorities self-financing and structures adapted and to read, rethinking of the legal form, in order to face the world-wide competitiveness". Not more, therefore, a public form tout-court, but a efficient public control because - it has found - "the Harbour Authority cannot wait for the times of the current procedures and politics, when it is spoken about new ships give beyond 20.000 teu and the hires play also on the thread of little hundreds or tens of euro".

The Province - it has observed Repetto - "must think also to the port, because it is a fundamental key of the economic development of the territory, the main activity of the city that sometimes of it suffers, but the port gives job, directed and in the induced one, to 20.000 people and our engagement it is full for the quality of the job". Repetto has invited also the committees "to always face with serenity and without ideologies the topics of the relationship between city and port also to West: the VTE - it has remembered - has job 780 places and 50% are of young people that live to Voltri, Prà and Pegli and in the past these places not never had been".

The president of the provincial agency has evidenced also the full engagement "for the long port, but - it has found - financings and specific policies serve and emerge interests to individual character, without a total vision regarding the harbour platform of the North the West and to national the harbour policies, because if politics do not make choices, it will make the goods them: our port today does not arrive beyond Milan, where instead the ports of the Europe North arrive, that they can count on a more efficient logistics and advance, not only made of warehouses".

In turning its wishes to Merlon, Repetto it also has invited "to claim with great institutional courage the national leadership of Genoa for today absent a total strategy at the level of Assoporti".

From part its Merlon has emphasized that the port of Genoa, thanks to the huge made investments during the last few years, has today the enough wide shoulders in order to compete on a more and more demanding world-wide market and in continuous evolution, at least for that regards the commercial port in strict sense: for that it regards instead the harbour industrial activities (shipbuilding and naval repairs) - but it has added - permangono the large relative unknown quantities from a part to the future of the plant Fincantieri di Sestri West, and from the other to the project of the sixth bathtub.

"The economic crisis of 2009 - it has said Merlon - has carried to a reduction of the harbour traffics world-wise, a circumstance never happened previously since the traffics were growing in exponential way year on year. In order to react to this situation, but also in order to hold the challenges of the future and the international competition that by now is total, the ports have as only solution own transformation, the adaptation to the demands for the market". To such purpose the president of the Harbour Authority has remembered that to Genoa he piles to 600 million euros the investment for the work in the yards opened in port with the objective to adapt infrastructures to the requirements of the modern traffics, and to 3,5 million cubic metres of material dredged from the bottom of the port "that - it has explained - will allow the berthing of larger ships and that the fillings and the overwhelmed ones will be used for, works finalized to they time to lengthen the docks, always to the aim of being able to accommodate a ship of greater dimensions".

The harbour town development plan of 2000 - it has said Merlon - is put into effect to 95%, and lacking 5% regard the area of Enel headquarters, on which we wait for to move waiting for to understand of the destiny. "Others additional works to those previewed from the town development plan - it has continued - are realized because the town development plans for they nature are rigid instruments, while the market evolves to a speed such to demand faster answers". Between these, it has remembered the new dock of Bridge of the Thousands that allows the berthing of the great cruise ships.

From the point of view of the traffic container, Merlon has evidenced that in the 2011 port of Genoa, between the little in Italy, it has recovered the data of the period pre-crisis (2008) and - has added - "we have seen as changes the nature of the traffics, in coherence with the evolution of the industry in the world: steel drops, increases in exponential way oils today vegetables, producing "greens" in full boom, drops the oil produced ones also as a result of the crisis of Libya, Country number one for the traffic of the Port Oils of Multedo".

Merlon has claimed own farsightedness in following with attention evolving itself of the world-wide portualità, in particular signing agreements with the North African ports of Tangeri and Tunisi that are having a tumultuous increase thanks to the presence of British and German companies. Also for that it regards the traffic fleeting (great cruise ships and ferries), Merlon has claimed the success of its politics: "he was obvious - it has explained - than Costa Crociere, after to have made great investments in order to move to Savona, it would not have receded from this choice, but our answer is adapted, that has tried to attract other companies, in particular MSC Cruises, and in this way we have increased the number of the passengers, in a four-year term, from 400.000 to 900.000". "But for how many efforts we can make in order launch our port - it has added - remains always two large limits that do not depend on we: the railway system and that of the controls. Sul second point, however, we have obtained a great result, only in Italy, that it will be able to return Genoa attractive for operators world-wide: the only door of customs, that it will shorten of 4-5 days the permanence of the ships in port having unified the control procedures Customs, marine Health, Arpal and Fitopatologico Office".

Merlon has evidenced also the important aspect of the ecological and environmental topics: "on this - it has observed - we are making a very challenging job and, once again, class of its own in our Country: thanks to the Province of Genoa, and in particular to Muvita Foundation of which I must to cards the praise, we have written up the Harbour Environmental Energetic first floor, the Peap, that it previews the discouragement of the polluting factors, beginning from the thin powders and from the noisiness of the ships, and the increment of the renewable energetic sources. We have invested, between the other things, in the realization of a connection of the ships to the net electrical worker, eliminating so the generators on the docks that produce an acoustic pollution of which the citizens often they are complained”.

The future - it has continued Merlon - is the arranged transport goods-passengers, “even if the Marine Station, in summer, is almost saturates, with 60.000 people to the day”.

At last the president of the Harbour Authority has intentional to remember own attention “graces also to the synergy of attempts with the president of the Repetto Province and with the leader of Large square Mazzini Riccardo Degli Innocenti”, for the topic of the formation and safety. “Also in this case - it has emphasized - we have set foot in an only project in Italy and will succeed in to guarantee for all the workers of the port a certifyd formation”.

The last point of the relation of Merlon has been the regional integration for that it regards the new harbour town development plan: “on the harbour town-planning planning - it has found - we must reason in terms of Liguria, because it is a topic that regards also Savona and La Spezia. And to Genoa the displacement of the outer dam is by now improrogabile”.