Inaugurated the start of the realization of the Logistic Platform of the port of Taranto



Yesterday the start of the realization of the Logistic Platform of the port of Taranto, an area of 250 thousand is inaugurated square metres planned in order to become a center of interchange between various modalities of transport (road, iron and sea) and as retroportuale zone for the manipulation of containerized cargos.

The project, for which an investment of 219,14 million euros is previewed of which 19 of technical and general expenses, besides the Logistic Platform (cost 44 million euros), situated in resort S. Nicolicchio, previews the realization of the Road of the Piers (40 million), than it will be developed for six kilometers, the widening of the IV it jut (78 million), the Dock to the west of the IV juts (13 million) and the bathtub of overwhelmed (25 million) in order to receive 1,5 million cubic metres of mud of the dredgings of juts.

The project will be realized in project financing by the concessionaire Logistic Taranto Spa, society that the Gavio group is under responsibility of and that it will invest 37 million euros. The start of the work is previewed shortly, with duration five-year-old until 2017, after the outcomes of the verifications of ottemperanza on the executive project by the competent ministries and after the completion of the propedeutiche activities which archaeological investigations and reclamation of the areas from weapons.

The realization of the Logistic Platform will be started after the completion of the propedeutiche activities, while the works to sea (that is IV Sporgente, the Dock and the overwhelmed bathtub of) will set off with the overwhelmed bathtub of, to the completion of which course to the connected activities of dredging to the execution of IV Sporgente and the Dock will be able to be given. The ban of contest for the realization of the Road of the Piers will be published as soon as acquired the propedeutiche approvals on the project Made up of contract.

Al term of the work all the infrastructuring works that take part of the project, with the exception of the Platform, will be delivered to the Harbour Authority of Taranto, while the integrated Logistic Platform instead will be managed by Logistic the Taranto concessionaire for a temporal arc 30-year-old.

One previews that the phase of construction can involve a medium engagement of staff pairs to about 150 units with the maximum tip until about 220 units in the periods of overlap of some works.

The activities of greater importance (the arrival of the goods, the manipulation and storage, the quality control, the final improvement, the personalisation of produced and the shipment) will carry out in resort Saint Nicolicchio, where the Platform is located. This last one, moreover, will be equipped of warehouses cooled goods, warehouses, silos and sheds for the logistic operations, car terminal let alone of a connected railway terminal to the national net and that European.

To the inauguration they have taken part, between the others, the vice minister of Infrastructures and Trasporti, Mario Ciaccia, president of the Region Puglia, Nichi Vendola, the president of the Harbour Authority of Taranto, Sergio Prete, and the president of Logistic Taranto Spa, Claudio Vezzosi.

The president of the harbour authority, Sergio Prete, has emphasized that the inauguration of the project constitutes "an event of particular importance as the work that is taking the way - has explained - they represent the fulcrum of the main regarding the development of the port of Taranto and characterized objective macro in the realization of a port of "third generation". A port that is not only a center of handling or industrial activities, but also European door in the endowed Mediterranean of a "logistic platform" interfacciata with the productive rows and trasportistiche multimodali. An ambitious objective that we intend to pursue through the implementation of processes of internationalization, cooperation, marketing, competitive adaptation of infrastructures and the services, all in the full respect of the atmosphere".

"Besides the adaptation of own infrastructural offer - it has observed Priest - the port of Taranto can boast: the presence of a basin of consumption and production strongly expanding; the favorable central geographic position in the Mediterranean; the presence of the railway connection directly on the terminal containers that the fast transfer of the goods via railroad in the Italy north and the Europe center allows; the availability of structures and great spaces in port and the retroporto; the privileged positioning on the territory as situated outside from the city with immediate access to the street and highway net; the presence to single 20 kilometers of superhighway of the Arlotta airport of Grottaglie; after all a good intermodal system in phase of optimization".

In its participation the president of the apulian regional agency, Nichi Vendola, has emphasized that "ports do not exist, exists - he has specified - an integrated system of ports, exists the port of the Apulia. Every port, in its specialization, must be able to converge in making to live the harbour system of the Apulia". Vendola has exhorted the city not to have "a survival logic": "Taranto - it has evidenced - must cultivate great ambitions, as that to imagine that this port, with its retroportualià and interportualità, with its logistic platform it can become one of the zones more sensitive and equipped of Europe, and for this way to convert a part of its productive apparatus. Only so answers will be able to be given to the citizens".

Vendola at last has asked vice minister Ciaccia for being interlocutors also for the other opened dossier, that is railway. "From Taranto - it has said - we live the particular pain legacy to the railway participations, those which have privileged some orders of the reorganization of the railway system to the detriment of others orders. Portualità, aereportualità, rail shipment - it has found Vendola - must be always more constructed as it segment of the system of the intermodalità. We are speaking about mobility and the right to mobility of the people and the occasions that mobility of the goods produces for us. The unit of the Country has broken. The trains that do not leave more from Taranto, the trains to long distance, the trains nocturnes, represent a vulnus for this city, this territory, its economy, its ambition and its workers. We place a problem that regards the unit of the Country".