Confcommercio writes to Napolitano so that it unblocks the issue of the dredging of the port of Pescara



The provincial organization of Pescara di Confcommercio has appealed the President of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, for the resolution of the lacked dredging the backdrops of the port of Pescara. "After to have interested the maximum representatives of the government and the local and regional institutions - law in the letter sent to the head of the State from the president of the provincial Confcommercio, Ezio Ardizzi - I turn to the highest charge of the Italian State a wounded deeply appeal with respect to the problematic one that carefully regards the city of Pescara and the entire collectivity. We realize that very others and more important issues daily engage it and to every hour, in special way against the last dramatic accadimenti that have regarded Emilia Romagna, and that unfortunately the devastating catastrophe has recalled us to the memory that has hit L'aquila single three years ago. However, own to the aim to avoid every possible ulterior damage we insist on its sensibility so that all can be characterized the measures and the solutions apt to place remedy to the unpleasant situation that interests the port of Pescara. This last one - Ardizzi in the letter explains - for a long time needs in fact of a improcrastinabile work of dredging of the backdrops which, against the next one to accumulate of detritus and sediments, neither do not allow more navigation with coasting trade boats".

"This situation - the president of the provincial Confcommercio evidences - determines the access impossibility is by the fishing fleet - one of the main economic resources of the city, that it gives maintenance to hundred of families - is of ships and/or hydrofoils that previously guaranteed the connection with Croatia".

Ardizzi speaks about "huge damages - you anticipate above all but future - from the tourist point of view, from that commercial one, but in special way from that social one. But this that more worries - specifies - it is the possible risk of esondazioni and overflowings in case of persistent rains, as the density of the detritus accumulatisi, ingrossando the riverbed, has carried the level of the water close of the banks. Easy therefore to imagine what could happen if exceptional atmospheric events, pouring rainwater amount not more in a position to being absorbed, they had to determine the flood of the river, than already our city it was forced to endure in April 1992".

"Without to penetrate to us in the grotesque events that until now have in fact prevented the corrected development of the dredging work - law still in the appeal - these last ones become more than ever indispensable today, to the aim to ask for an environmental and economic catastrophe through the prevention, than as it recites the famous saying it is better of the cure. We invoke therefore a its interest - it concludes Ardizzi - so that the difficulties and the bureaucratic diffuseness can be old, let alone the stale bounce of responsibility by the competent institutional subjects, than until now they have returned the work of dredging and cleansing of the backdrops impossible".

At the beginning last month the president of the Province of Pescara, Guerino Head, had discharged itself from the assignment of extraordinary commissioner for the dredging of the pescarese port sending a letter to the Prime Minister of the ministers, Mario Monti. Head had denounced that, "although prompt and the appeals", "the issue was not faced by the central government". "He is inadmissible - it had emphasized - than the issue of the port of Pescara is not taken in consideration from Rome, because it is a port of national importance, and this situation damages not only the marineria but the entire economy of the city".

While marine company SNAV, than last year had transferred own connections for Croatia from the port of Pescara to the port of Ortona ( on 26 July 2011), this year will realize the every day service for Croatia (Shovelled) with departure and arrival to the port of Ancona in the period from on 16 June on 16 September next.