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Prompt Assoporti the government to start I confront in center EU on the duration of the concessions of harbour areas
Merlon: the dimension of the challenge launch from the market and large the container operators does not allow hesitations
October 1, 2012
Assoporti, the association of the Italian Harbour Authorities, speeds up the government to activate itself in European center in order to discuss the topic about the duration of the concessions of harbour areas. "The Italian ports - the president of Assoporti has explained, Luigi Merlo - ask with urgency the government to open confront with the European Union are on the topic of the times of the concessions that Brussels would want to reduce, putting obviously to risk the possibility to attract new investor in dock, it is on the rules of the game who the commissioner to Siim Kallas Transports has confirmed to want to rewrite in the optical of a greater transparency, of certainties for operators and of an income in dock of external subjects to the system".
Merlon has emphasized that draft of "the most delicate moment, also because - it has specified - the dimension of the challenge launch from the market and large the container operators does not allow kind hesitations. It is for other meaningful one - it has added Merlon - as the Spanish government and that of the Catalogna, engaged in a drastic cut of all the expenses, has instead increased the deep ones for the portualità".
Assoporti has remembered that "within the 2015 some between the greater concessions of harbour terminals in Europe they will arrive to the turn of buoy of I renew and the uncertainty climate could put to risk the massive investments that the private ones have planned for the next years. For other it seems unavoidable - second the association of the Italian Harbour Authorities - than in the next few years a consisting sale of harbour assets (is already happening in Great Britain) destined to penalize the countries ulteriorly, Italy firstly, that they denounce strong administrative rigidities and that they have not generated conditions of real autonomy financial institution".
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Assoporti, the association of the Italian Harbour Authorities, speeds up the government to activate itself in European center in order to discuss the topic about the duration of the concessions of harbour areas. "The Italian ports - the president of Assoporti has explained, Luigi Merlo - ask with urgency the government to open confront with the European Union are on the topic of the times of the concessions that Brussels would want to reduce, putting obviously to risk the possibility to attract new investor in dock, it is on the rules of the game who the commissioner to Siim Kallas Transports has confirmed to want to rewrite in the optical of a greater transparency, of certainties for operators and of an income in dock of external subjects to the system".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
