The mayor of Palermo asks the Region to start the work on the Fincantieri ship yards



Leoluca Orlando, than from little days is the new mayor of Palermo, charge that he has already covered from 1985 to 1990 and 1993 to 2000, has sped up the Sicilian Region to proceed with the actions that they will allow to start the restructure of the floating docks of the ship yards of Palermo of the Fincantieri group, yards - he has emphasized - "that they constitute one of the main industrial productive truths of our territory and that, with theirs induced, appoints to a job hundred of families".

Orlando has exhorted the competent regional city council member, Marco Venturi, "so that he as soon as possible proceeds to the allocation and the start of the renovations of the floating docks from 19 thousand and 52 thousand tons". "Draft - the first citizen of Palermo has explained - of indispensable participations for I throw again myself productive of the yards and in order to assert of the competitiveness and domestically international".

The two basins, in fact, are currently not used by the Fincantieri group as must be object of meaningful maintenance operations at the expense of the local institutions. In the 2011 in the plant of Palermo navalmeccanico group it has carried out the repair of 23 ships and six transformations.

The regional city council member to the productive Activities, Marco Venturi, has replied asserting the Region has made its part. "The ship yards of Palermo, as well as to represent an historical site for the Sicilian and Italian naval industry - it has answered Next - they constitute a pole on which the Region it has chosen to head decidedly in order to throw again shipbuilding the naval one. For this reason, we have invested regional resources pairs to about 60 million euros in order restructuring the floating dry docks from 19 thousand and 52 thousand tons".

"In June 2010 - it has specified the regional city council member - we have signed a protocol with Fincantieri and since then the Region has not lost a single day. We have made the notices and carried out all the procedures according to the law: us one has moved in the respect of the norms. Not there are difficulties or slows down, but respect of the passages and the previewed times. For the dry dock from 52 thousand tons we are in the presence of a temporary award with reservation to Fincantieri and with a documentary demand, while for that from 19 thousand we are in the presence of an opposition to the Cga by Fincantieri in front of the award of the work to a concurrent company. The legality and the respect of the rules - it has concluded Next - are full stops on which us they cannot be, and not are, crashs and divergences of opinions. The Sicilian Region has made all with celerity. Now they are the technical times not employee from this administration to decide. But we are to the final beaten ones, I am convinced some".