Of Marco: 60 million to the port of Ravenna are an acknowledgment of the importance of the port of call for the economy of the Country



A declaration of the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa, on the state financing of 100 million euros that recently are obtained by the lagoon port for activity correlated to the realization of the harbour platform of height planned from the Venetian harbour agency has riacutizzato the controversy on the public funds granted to the ports. At the end last year the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, had threatened to discharge himself from the charge of president of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) for protest against such financing, granted - he had denounced - to out of the meager quota destined public funds to all the Italian portualità. As well as to provoke angers of Genoa, the appropriation had caused the protest of representatives of some adriatic harbour cities, between which Ravenna.

Own Ravenna is taken for example by Coast in order to evidence as the financing granted to Venice is not an exception in the panorama of the Italian portualità. In a statement to the newspaper on line "Linkiesta", the number one of the Venetian port has explained that "Ravenna has taken the money allocated from the CIPE for the tramvia of Parma, Genoa has four billions for the Third Pass, for Civitavecchia has arrived 230 million last week". Affirmations, those reported to the port inhabitant of Romagna, than - it has replied today the president of the Harbour Authority of Ravenna, Galliano Di Marco - "contain some showy inaccuracies and omissions": "the resources allocated from the CIPE for the port of Ravenna (60 million euros) - it has specified Of Marco - do not come from the reconversion of the originally destined resources to the subway of Parma. Such reconversion never is not faced, even if - to light also than is emerged on how of uses of the public resources from those leaves - I can assure that they would come sure used to Ravenna in more effective and transparent way. On the other hand - it has found Of Marco - the positive outcome of the meticulous examination, at the best of the fury, our project by the CIPE is clear testimony of this".

"In the second place - it has continued the president of the Harbour Authority of Ravenna - from the affirmations of president Costa it seems that the financings in arrival to the port of Ravenna are equatable to one of the many, too many, participations to rain lavished in these years, omitting the fact that the port of Ravenna, so as photographed from the relative ISTAT data to marine transport 2011 (given published last December), to clearly of the oil produced ones places to the quarter place in Italy for international traffic (what it enters in the formula of the GDP) after Taranto, Gioia Tauro and Genoa, that means that, sight the nature of port of transhipment of Gioia Tauro, Ravenna is effectively to the third party place in Italy for "true" traffic. According to Eurostat statistics of the field, moreover - it has added Of Marco - Ravenna is to the quarter European place for the category of the goods several not unitizzate and to the third party European place (after Riga and Rotterdam) for the solid bulk traffic on the routes of the short sea shipping. Such positioning is translate in the fact that already today Ravenna is the main Italian port of interchange with the countries of the Mediterranean oriental and the Black Sea. In addition to this, the most recent data of the Agency of Customs, relative to the quantitative ones of goods imported in Italy from extra Countries EU, indicate that Ravenna is to according to Italian place after Taranto".

"It is the knowledge of the importance of the port of Ravenna for the economy of the Country, that it would have to be very note to professor Costa also in its dresses of adviser of the vice minister Ciaccia (regarding which us an obvious conflict of interest can be asked if not sussista), joined to the effort of the local authorities of the city, the Harbour Authority and the Emilia Romagna Region - it has concluded Of Marco - that has carried to the allocation by the CIPE in October slid of 60 million for the realization of the harbour project "Hub of Ravenna"".