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Reduction of the anchor duties and control of the social burdens between the measures anti-crisis of the port of Gioia Tauro
Assumed a norm that you in transit obligate the goods from Gioia Tauro towards other Italian ports to being cleared in Calabria
November 30, 2011
Reduction of the anchor duties at least until the 2015 and control of the social burdens in the measure of 45% is between the previewed measures in order to allow with the port of Gioia Tauro to exceed current the crisis that has affected considerably the enlivened volumes of containerizzato traffic from the port of call calabro and has had a strong impact on the occupation generated from the activity harbor, with beyond 700 workers currently in redundancy fund on approximately 3.000 total ones between directed and induced.
Yesterday to Catanzaro, in the center of the presidency of the Calabria Region, the interistituzionale operating reunion dedicated to the port in sight of the next ministerial national table has been carried out. Between the advance proposals and provisions in the course of the encounter, to subject in the course of the next "national Table on the Port of Gioia Tauro" with the ministry and therefore with the government, they figure a series of finalized corrective participations to the reduction of the competitive imbalance of the ports of transhipment of the South of Italy, first of all Gioia Tauro, towards the ports north Africans, waiting for a resumption of the traffic volumes.
The more important programmed measures exactly include the reproposition also for the future years, at least until 2015, of the legislative disposition that allows with the Harbor Authorities to reduce the anchor duties and the access in order at least three years to possible fiscal facilities, that is control of the social burdens, in the measure of 45%, today weighing on the private entrepreneurs (articles 16, 17, 18 of law 84/94). The regional agency has remembered that the participation of the present values of the previdenziale and charitable contribution for the part mails from the law at the expense of the employer, on base 2011, piles per year to 9,7 million euros. Considered that last year the ports of Cagliari, Taranto and Gioia Tauro have enlivened 4.062.000 teu - it has explained the agency - this would double reduce the costs of approximately 4,5 euros for container (movement from ship to ship).
Moreover the application of politics of energetic saving through the reduction of the octrois on the used energetic produced ones for the harbor activities is previewed. The directive 2003/96/CE, understood with law 28/04/2005 n.62 - it has remembered the Region - attributes to the Member States the power to detassare fuels of means of transport not accredited to the circulation on road, which the vehicles used in the harbor operations.
Also the necessity of a urgent table with Italian Railway Net is established (RFI), of the verification of the state of the participations sign in the Agreement of Program Picture, of renews of the block of the increment of the concession burdens, of the cost reduction of the nautical services technical, of the autonomy financial institution of the Harbor Authority, of the conclusion of the iter for the obtaining of currently decrees Area of Crisis in preliminary investigation near the ministry of the Economic Development.
An important result - it is emphasized - would be also to obtain a norm that you in transit obligate the goods from Gioia Tauro towards other Italian ports to being cleared in Calabria before their transfer, in order to contribute in important way to the regional fiscality.
Moreover, upon request of the mayors of the area of the port, the necessity is emerged to eliminate or to lighten the iter for the obtaining of the paesistico opinion that disincentive remarkablly the potentialities of investment in the area.
The encounter yesterday is presided by the vice president of the Region, Antonella Stasi, and has recorded the presence, between the others, of the president of the Province of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Raffa, of the president of the Harbor Authority of Gioia Tauro, Giovanni Grimaldi, of Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) represented from Domenico Bagalà, of the Harbor office of Gioia Tauro represented from commander Diego Tomat. You anticipate all the trade-union acronyms of category, the mayors of the comprensorio and the representatives of the harbor operators.
"Gioia Tauro - Stasis has commented the vice president of the regional agency - can become flies for the entire economy of Southern Italy d' Italy, if an integrated plan of development comes true above all and if a total program is put in field that can preview, the positioning of Gioia Tauro in the "Plan of the national logistics", an participation directed from the ministry of Infrastructures on the investments that RFI must make in Calabria, the role that the Italian government intends to carry out in the political Mediterranean euro on the topic of the transhipment".
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