To Taranto the development of the retroportuali activities becomes fundamental for the future of the Jonian economy



. It has emphasized the city council member to strategic Infrastructures and mobility of the Region Apulia, Guglielmo Minervini, to conclusion of a held encounter yesterday, to which the representatives of the local authorities and the Port of Rotterdam interested International have participated to implement the relationships of collaboration with the Jonian port, that tarantina with the objective is convened by the Harbour Authority to design a distance of development of the logistic activities connected to the port in a strategic moment in which they are concentrated beyond 400 million investments for the completion of the infrastructural works in the harbour area in the next few years.

"We are playing - Minervini has explained - a double one left for the realization of infrastructures and the development of the activities tied to the logisitica. To the end of June, when we have undersigned with the government and the Taranto Container Terminal the understanding protocol that has assumed the investments in the port of Taranto to national issue, was not still exploded the Ilva emergency. Now, also in the light of how much it is happening, the development of the retroportuali activities becomes fundamental for the future of the Jonian economy".

Minervini has specified that the working hypothesis advanced from the Harbour Authority "goes in the right direction in order to develop a logistic row, that is that activity that on the spot develops with the opening of the container and the treatment of the goods, that it can generate new economy and new occupation in what it will be the infrastructured port more of Italy".

The city council member has remembered that the development of these activities will be already possible in the logistic platform of 200.000 square metres under realization in the harbour area and successively in the Distripark and that both the areas will benefit of a dedicated railway connection and of the airport cargo of Grottaglie to 20 kilometers from the port. "To this intermodal system - Minervini has said - they are a lot interested the operators of the port of Rotterdam, with which we hope to develop an important partnership".

Referring to the interrogation introduced from the regional councilman of the Apulia, Patrizio Mazza, in which the exponent of Italy of the Values denunciation the de-financing of the participation of the Distripark proposed from the Region in order to finance the reconfiguration of the dock of the Polisettoriale Pier of the port of Taranto, the city council member has emphasized that "the de-financing has been temporary and technical and has become necessary in order to put in safety the protocol; now - it has added Minervini - already we are engaged for the immediate reactivation of the procedures in order to refinance it. It is parallel necessary however to be left over on another plan. There is need - it has explained - to cruise the progettualità with the interests of the market, we cannot afford to mistake. A public work does not have to be realized that not active the interest of the operators, of it we have already many of examples in Apulia and not far away own to Francavilla. The problem is not to design of the areas and to imagine of the use destinations. If we want to activate development processes on the territory we must have a double look to the nets and above all at the market".