Ravenna calls Genoa and Trieste to tackle common against the financing to the harbour platform of height of Venice



If the recent decision of the Commission Budget, treasure and programming of the Chamber of Deputies to authorize the transfer to the Harbour Authority of Venice of five million euro for 2013 and 95 million euros for 2014 to the aim to allow the financing of connected activities with the realization of the platform of height in front of the lagoon port has primed a controversy between the ports of Genoa and Venice that in recent days apparently is levelled, an participation of deputy mayor of Ravenna, Giannantonio Mingozzi, seems destined to foment the contest.

If the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, "in the heat of the moment" has threatened resignation from president of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) and "to cold" has taken note of the clarification had with its Venetian colleague Paolo Costa with regard to the destination of such financings, than - it is specified - breakwaters and not for the realization of the container will be used in the within of the Mose project for the construction of the dam height terminal, deputy mayor of Ravenna have proposed to the city council member to the economic Development and to deputy mayor of Genoa, Francesco Oddone and Stefano Bernini, and to the mayor of Trieste, Roberto Cosolini, an encounter "in order to estimate entirety - Mingozzi has explained - to make oneself with respect to the possible decision of the Chamber to distribute to the port of Venice a million financing hundreds for not very specified project of logistic platform".

Mingozzi has confirmed the contrarietà of the municipal administration ravennate to the realization of the Venetian project: "I appreciate the Liguria Region and the Municipalities of Genoa and Trieste - it has declared - that they have expressed perplexity about very dangerous a competitive hypothesis for our ports of call. In spite of the refutation of Assoporti and the same Venetian administration, that they stretch to giving to the new terminal a support function to the Mose project, but it is not understood in that way the logistics enters there with the problematic ones of tidal wave. It is well - it has continued Mingozzi - than ours three truths are coordinated is in the immediate one that for the future".

Mingozzi has remembered "that some parliamentarians, between which senator ravennate Vidmer Mercatali, is moving in order to amend in Senate approved of how much to the Chamber. In any case - it has emphasized - a platform that costs beyond two billions of euro and that it would have to be installed to the wide one of Venice with commercial functions and normative fiscal from carriage free is absolutely unacceptable and would be a slap in the face to the adriatic and tirrenica portualità that tries to make with means own how much them is possible in terms of new investments and technologies".

The genoese municipal administration, instead, for the moment has made own the position in merit expressed from Assoporti, the association of the Italian Harbour Authorities, that it has exhorted to frame the financing to the port of Venice in a "total strategic design of the harbour logistic system" ( on 20 November 2012). The mayor of Genoa, Marco Doria, has however evidenced that the authorization to the appropriation for the port of Venice is a meant fact "as - has specified - is assigned to a work, whose project is not estimated by the Higher council of the public works, neither he has obtained the appraisal of environmental impact, as offshore platform, a sum consisting of 100 million euros advanced to that which he is previewed to allocate for all the ports of the Country" and this happens - it has added - while the port of Genoa has approved of ""poor" a triennial plan, in coherence with the cuts already announced from government, also being the port of Genoa - he has evidenced Doria - the first Italian port of call, with a strategic function in the national economy". "The Harbour Committee of Genoa - it has continued the first genoese citizen - has approved of a document that supports very simple things, lacking in parochial feelings, but inspired to the general interest. The first is the assertion of a total congruity of the harbour financings. The second one is the demand for an autonomy financial institution of the Italian ports and, third, he is that the same procedures of approval of the projects come continuations, and that is that not it can, during argument parliamentarian, to finance harbour works to discapito of others".