The port of Trieste on 1° July sends back the application of the increment of 33% of the harbour taxes



This morning the Harbour Committee of Trieste has given sent to the president of the Harbour Authority, Marina Monassi, to have, by means of decree, the deferral to the next 1° July of the application of the increment of 33% of the harbour tax, let alone of the revenue tax and the harbour tax for the free points of the port of Trieste, previewed from I interministerial decree on December 24, 2012. Objective of the decision, that it is the result of a private strategy and publishes imprinted to the increase, is to place the foundations so that, in an economic phase of deep difficulty, it can be maintained the trend of increase of the traffic of the container enlivened from the giuliano port of call that in biennium 2010-2012 has recorded a rate +45%.

"We intend - Marina Monassi has explained - to be beside the enterprises who has given confidence to me and with which we must allow to operate in the best possible conditions. For such reason I have proposed to the Harbour Committee this "discouragement" of the taxes functional to generate traffic and occupation". An approval to the choice of the Harbour Authority has arrived from the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste, Antonio Paoletti, that it has found is how much "the deliberate choices are important for the enterprises this today", is how much "such choices reflect the dialogue and the sharing of the strategies between the Harbour Authority of Trieste and the operators of the port of call".

In the course of the Marina Monassi reunion it has specified that the Harbour Authority has succeeded to obtain in the year a 2012 remainder of administration pairs to 13 million euros, also having held the taxes to levels minimums. Competitive taxes - it has explained - that they have favorite the increment of the traffics and the consequent ones puts up entered.

The president of the Harbour Authority has made also the point on the main concessions of the comprensorio (Greensisam and Portocittà), remembering that these concessions are important, because they guarantee to the harbour agency a annual return of beyond a million euro, and emphasizing that he is quantomai urgent that the concessionaires realize the previewed work. Sul Greensisam forehead is remembered that the work still is not started because lacks the authorization for the town-planning conformity, whose procedure is of competence of the felt Region the Municipality of Trieste. The Harbour Authority has sped up E region Municipality mentioning that the Attorney General's Office near the State Audit Court has demanded news with respect to the conclusion of the work of requalification of the area. For that it concerns instead Portocittà, it has been marked that this has sent a letter in which it complains, among other things, the lacked delivery the areas. However Portocittà, - it has found the harbour agency - has for its part not supplied to acquire in the terms the necessary authorizations and authorizations to the start of the work. For these reasons, the concessionaire, already in December 2012 had asked the Harbour Authority a delay regarding the terms previewed in cronoprogramma the deliveries and cronoprogramma the works. The Authority had granted such delay until on February 28, 2013, date in which reasonably all the areas will have to be delivered. Not there will be therefore - it has emphasized the harbour authority - alibi or excuses for indemnifications or compensations of kind.