Encounter to Brussels for I throw again of the activity of the port of Gioia Tauro



In recent days europarlamentare Pino Arlacchi has visited the port of Gioia Tauro with the president of the Interporto of Bari, Davide De Gennaro, and has had an institutional encounter with the representatives of the Harbour Authority in the course of which it is gushed the particular interest of the apulian interportuale president of the company to the creation joint venture with Gioia Tauro with the objective to vice versa create a way of intermodal transport that can transfer the container from the Calabria to the Italy North and the South Europe passing from Bari, and.

The reunion is continued yesterday to Brussels with the participation of the president of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Giovanni Grimaldi, and of the vice president of the Region Calabria, Antonella Stasi, and to the encounter they have taken it leave the highest civil employees of the EU commission who take care of Gioia Tauro.

"The port of Gioia Tauro - Pino Arlacchi has said - is an important resource on which insisting for the development of Southern Italy. My interest is that to develop a strategic system around the calabrian port of call that, seen its international dimensions, is called to make from towing in the increase of the South of Italy and the entire Country".

"To such purpose - it has added europarlamentare - they are much satisfied one of the possible synergy between the port of Gioia Tauro and the interporto of Bari that I wish it includes also the port of call of Taranto. I have begun to occupy me of these harbour truths in an optical of with the objective creating an only harbour system of Southern Italy. Al moment we are only at the beginning. It is, in fact, my will to continue this distance in order to face, also, the next development of retroporto and internal and external safety harbour in and specific reunions. In the course of the visit to the Harbour Authority I have had a chance for find the competence and the high motivation of the agency".

Arlacchi has evidenced that the civil employees of the EU commission "have manifested the their full satisfaction regarding our approach that answers exactly to the expectations of the European Union: to create synergies between various regional and interregional truths. Anyway - it has remembered - the EU copartecipa to the investments on the port of Gioia Tauro with a financing of 300 million euros in partnership with the Calabria Region. They are sure that this momentary crisis of the transhipment will be exceeded and such purpose I will ask the involvement for the national government".

For its part the president of the Interporto of Bari, De Gennaro, has found that "the agreement with the port of Gioia Tauro is yields inside of a infrastructural project that heads, of the programming of the European Union, to the mass in net of Gioia Tauro and of Southern Italy through a railway system that will involve also the entire apulian portualità. All this - it has continued - answers to the requirements of the EU to pull down the economic and environmental costs. The Interporto of Bari is set as actor of the intermodal development supplying a study of operating, economic feasibility and financial profit to define of the connections between the ports. Anyway I believe that the port of call of Gioia Tauro is a work a lot important, realized with great job and investments. Our ambition is that to succeed to put it to system through the development of the intermodalità in order to guarantee them its deserved increase".

The president of the Harbour Authority has expressed satisfaction for the outcome of the encounter near the EU commission that - Giovanni Grimaldi has explained - "has been a lot interesting and profitable. I hope - it has added - can be thrown the bases in order to guarantee the just awakening of our port of call in its activities of transhipment and, above all, in the intermodalità. Our objective is that to guarantee the full involvement of the harbour infrastructure of Gioia Tauro in the economic increase of the Calabria Region in a system that embraces the entire portualità of Southern Italy".