Manifest the Harbour Authority of Augusta confidence about a positive pronunciamento of the EU on the deep ones for the port



In a note the president of the Harbour Authority of Augusta, Aldo Garozzo, specifies some aspects of the reliefs which moved from the European State Audit Court on the employment of deep the EU allocated for a infrastructural project in the Sicilian harbour port of call ( on 26 April 2012). To conclusion of an audit on the effectiveness of the use of the structural Bottoms and the Bottom of cohesion in order to co-finance infrastructures of transport in the marine ports, the State Audit Court in fact has drafted a special relation in which Augusta which port is indicated in which the which co-financed infrastructural project with deep communitarian it did not turn out operating.

In particular, the European State Audit Court evidences totally that, of the 27 which examined projects, 23 turned out completed and 19 of these were in use to half of 2010. Instead in three cases, between which the project of Augusta, let alone those of Campamento and Arinaga, in Spain, the infrastructures were not used, while in a case (Bari) infrastructures were used only partially.

The relation of precise the European State Audit Court that "between 2003 and 2006, to Augusta is co-financed the second phase of the construction of a commercial port (the first phase was begun in 1980). The infrastructure is completed in 2006, but the port remains made unusable, since the previewed traffic of container neither the traffic has not been materialized neither "ro-ro" (roll-on/roll-off) (co-financing of 3,8 million euros). A third extension of the port is previewed shortly, to the aim to complete the work on the relative docks to a new terminal for container and to connect the port to the railway net".

From part its Harbour Authority of Augusta remembers exactly that "between the 2003 and 2006 ASI of Syracuse it has realized, with a co-financing of 3,8 million melts FERS, the second phase of the construction of the commercial port of Augusta that comprised relative secondary works to the completion of the wharf ro-ro, to the extension of about 180 linear meters of the dock of approaches, to the partial paving of the existing large squares and to the equipment of services which the construction of three mansions to use to offices, the completion of the antifire net, the fence of the harbour area and the realization of crosses of income. The works completed in 2006 and entrusted to the Harbour Authority of 2007 - Garozzo confirmation - in the course of the audit of 2010 have at the end not evidenced use it attended and previewed in phase of project".

"In fact the new portion of dock - the president of the Sicilian harbour agency explains - has allowed, united to pre-exists, the realization of a new one approaches in which they are loaded/unloaded quota leaves of about the 1,7 million one tons of goods helter-skelter enlivened annually in the port of Augusta. The works as above are also propedeutiche to the completion than previewed from the enforced PRP (Portuale Town development plan), that is, the construction of a terminal containers, the adaptation and the attrezzaggio with crane to portal of a feature of the existing dock and the widening of the operating large squares. These last ones, for about 120 million euros, are ricomprese in the "Card Great Projects" whose iter istruttorio it is on near the European Community for a financing of 85 million euros".

"Press release of the reported European Union to old works already realized (2003-2006) - Garozzo concludes - does not have some connection with the financing of the works of completion of the port previewed in the PON Nets and Mobility 2007-2013 waiting for pronunciamento of the European Union on the aids of State and for which this Authority is very trusting about a positive outcome".