I throw again of the port of Gioia Tauro to risk for the increase of the anchor duties



The labor organization CISL has manifested worry for the possible impact negative on the competitiveness of the port of Gioia Tauro of the delay of the term that allows with the Harbour Authorities to vary the anchor duties and harbour until their doubling or zero setting established with I interministerial decree 24th December.

"Meanwhile they are begun to collect yields of the positive actions developed to territorial level, is by the Harbour Authority that they give the regional government and for last from the workers and the involved social parts - they have found the general secretary of CISL Calabria, Paolo Tramonti, and the general secretary of Fit CISL Calabria, Annibale Fiorenza - by the central government unacceptable provisions of fiscal nature are not recorded as the unexpected increase of the anchor duties, pairs to about 20% for 2012 ulterior more a 10% for 2013 and 10% for 2014. A fiscal bomb - they have emphasized - that risks to wreck every expectation of resumption and increase of the port and the harbour area of Gioia Tauro. I interministerial decree that it aggravates the shipping charges and it makes useless the profuse engagement from the workers let alone the perspective announced ones of contained resumption in the plan of restructure, introduced from the terminalista society, still under approval by the competent ministry".

"It is with these actions that, clearly in controtendenza to national the political waits necessary in order to support the competitiveness of the Italian harbour system - they have continued Tramonti and Fiorenza - penalize the Country and emphasizes the structural and productive crisis of the port of Gioia Tauro and therefore of the calabrian economy".

"Other that triumphalist tones for the light increase of the containerized trade", they have added the two union members referring to the increment recorded last year from the port of Gioia Tauro, moreover attested to the considerable rate of growth of +18.5% ( on 9 January 2013). "A data - they have specified Tramonti and Fiorenza - than, also we of CISL greet favorably, but with great sense of responsibility and the essential pragmatism. Since, we want to also evidence, if in increase, he has not reduced the hours of extraordinary redundancy fund and therefore he has not generated some trend of increase in terms of job and occupation".

"Against all this and in consideration that the increase of the recalled anchor duties over are already active from the slid 7 monday January - the representatives of CISL have denounced - strongly we are worried and we ask an immediate corrective participation, of I interministerial decree manifactured, to Christmas Eve 2012, from ministers Passera and Grilli. In constancy of these increases, determined from the aforesaid one I interministerial decree on December 24, 2012 and spaced out from 2012 to 2014, the anchor duties will leaven of about 30%. A very onerous increase that, if not corrected, will divert the navigation lines towards the ports of the Africa North where these unjust taxes is pairs to zero and the costs of labor united to the production costs more in general terms are very more low. This, if not adequately contrasted, will produce to an immediate trend negative that will go to make useless the little but important set in action positive that, to regional and territorial level, they are put in field in the past couple of years".

"The Calabria and the calabrians - they have concluded Tramonti and Fiorenza - cannot continue to endure national policies that, in fact, marginalize and bridle territorial, infrastructural and productive the potentialities existing, generating desertification, isolation and poverty. CISL and the Fit Calabria are ready to generate synergies apt to support the competitiveness of the port of Gioia Tauro and all those functional opportunities to I throw again concrete of the harbour activities and the productive activities on the calabrian territory. In such optical we consider to promote and to share, with the other labor organizations and the subjects interested to the increase and the development of harbour the harbour activities and back let alone to promote a future including of our territory in the "System Country" and the "System Mediterranean Euro"".