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Delivered the assets of Tirrenia to the Italian Company of Navigation
Stipulated the new convention of public service of marine cabotage
July 20, 2012
Yesterday, as a result of it stipulates between the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports and the Italian Company to it of Navigation (CIN) of the new convention of public service of marine cabotage, is proceeded to the delivery to the CIN asset of Tirrenia to necessary the distribution of the service public second how much previewed from the stipulated contract of sale a year ago ( on 26 July 2011).
The extraordinary commissioner of Tirrenia, Giancarlo D' Andrea, has communicated therefore the cessation of the distribution of the public service of marine connection by the extraordinary administration.
The ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports - in a note - has emphasized that with the subscription of the new convention with the company of navigation CIN "it shuts in positive way the complex and difficult national procedure of privatization of the former Tirrenia that, over the last few years, has seen the separate cession of various regarding activities part of the marine connections with the Sicily, the regional routes towards the smaller islands and ulterior important assets as the great fast ships. The convention - it has explained the ministry - recepisce the indications of the Italian Antitrust, that it has estimated positively the operation of cession of former Tirrenia in extraordinary administration to CIN. The agreement moreover orders the connections, than the company of navigation CIN it will have to assure for next the eight years".
"The distance characterized from the ministry of the economic Development and from the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports - the note continues - guarantees the territorial continuity with the greater islands and protects the occupational levels. From today (yesterday, ndr) company CIN is therefore totally operating regarding the management of the routes convention object. The two ministries will continue to follow with great attention the deepenings in course near the offices of the EU commission, to the aim to carry the former-Tirrenia issue totally to a positive outcome and online with the communitarian right".
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