Within end of month the association of the apulian ports Apulian Ports will be born



Last week, in the course of an encounter near the Region Apulia, the regional city council member to the Guglielmo Minervini Infrastructures and the presidents of the Harbour Authorities of Taranto, the East and Brindisi, Sergio Prete, Francesco Mariani and Hercules Haralmbides, they have preannounced the constitution of "Apulian Ports" (APP), association formed from the three harbour agencies with the strategic address of the Region that .

The association will be formed formally within end of month. The first president will be Hercules Haralmbides, that he will remain in charge for a year, then will be a spin. The registered office will be Taranto, the operating center that of the turn president. The tasks of the president and the Coordinating committee and management that will place side by side it will be carried out under gratuitous title, without burdens or costs at the expense of the association.

The first purpose of Apulian Ports will be that to develop to actions of marketing of the apulian harbour system that will be articulated on two levels in order to obtain the just balance between the requirement to promote a common territorial brand for international relations, notices European, proud and that to put to system and to value the specificities and the tips of excellence of every port of call.

"There is then - Minervini has explained - a front that we can define inside that regards the maintenance of a high and common standard of efficiency and economization of the services carried out publics or from private in concession regime that they directly affect the functionality of the ports (Agency of Customs, Marine Health, phytosanitary Police of Frontier, controls and veterinaries, tugs, pilots and ormeggiatori). To offer to the navigation companies an optimal service means to make to save they time and money, increasing the level of attrattività of our harbour system".

"Apulian ports - it has observed the regional city council member - is the point of arrival of a common distance begun a year ago with the Harbour Authorities for the creation of a legal subject that currently has only two precedence in Italy. But APP is also the metaphor for that platform, for the first time, shared between the greatest apulian Harbour Authorities that will be so stronger and competitive. We have imagined - it has added Minervini - a thin structure, equipped of a its autonomy with the objective to intercept new traffics, because every port has of the peculiarities and the potentialities, addresses to a basin of market that we intend to integrate in sinergico way, single so we can grow our ability of collision regarding the change of the question".