Portocittà announces the abandonment of the project for the Old Port of Trieste. The Harbour Authority asks the respect for the engagements



Portocittà, the Spa that has in concession the state property areas of the Franco Vecchio Point of Trieste, has yesterday announced the decision to renounce to the concession and therefore the consequent abandonment of the project of architectonic and town-planning requalification of the area.

Portocittà, that it is participated by the societies of constructions Rizzani de Eccher and Maltauro, by the financial institutions Biis and Carifvg of the Intesa Sanpaolo group and by the public-private society of promotion of partnerships Sinloc, has motivated own decision because of the impossibility to get ahead the project for dragging on of the regime of general uncertainty that has marked the recovery of the Old Port of Trieste and has preannounced the start of jurisdictional actions near the Regional administrative court.

Manifesting to displease for the intention to renounce to the initiative manifested from Portocittà, the president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Marina Monassi, have remembered that "today, to hours 10, Portocittà Srl was convened for the delivery of the areas as expected from the concessorio action. Today - it has specified - no legal transaction of official renunciation has reached the Harbour Authority. We have cleared the areas doing the impossible: the sheds, transferred are emptied the enterprises, moved twenty or so tugs, cleaned the property left at death watery mirrors also from of boats sunk in the years. Indeed I do not know what to say".

"The concession - it has continued Marina Monassi - was signed between then the president of the Authority, Claudio Boniciolli, and the Portocittà; but the existence of the Frank Point was obvious, whose permanence had made to choose the current concessionaires respect to others. The papers and the actions speak clearly. It mistakes who says that the Harbour Authority blocks the iter: we have adempiuto to our obligations inserted in a concession who we have inherited from our predecessors. Now he is up to Portocittà to fulfill to how much had been engaged to make". "Beyond he proclaim and gears of which we read on newspapers - he has concluded the president of the harbour agency - there is another concessionaire, Greensisam Spa, whose start of the work is blocked because an opinion lacks that the Municipality of Trieste must for a long time transmit to the Region Friuli Venice Julia. We have convened of urgency the Harbour Committee for next tuesday and, to the presence of he prints, we will give to all the information of the case with the copies of the actions".

Yesterday while, the center of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, has held the assembly of NAPA (North Adriatic Ports Association). "In the course of the assembly - Marina Monassi has announced, president of turn of the association - we have started the iter of verification for giving NAPA legal personality. We have moreover approved of the actions of promotion of the Adriatic north it is from the point of view of the traffics goods in India, Vietnam and Egypt, is from the fleeting point of view of the traffic, new field of interest of NAPA, as proposed from the Authority of Rijeka".

Marina Monassi, together with the representatives of the ports of call of Venice, Rijeka and Koper, has opened the assembly remembering the positive activities realized in the 2012 to international level (accreditation near the European institutions and active interaction with the markets of reference Europe and Asia) and therefore is approved of consuntivo budget 2012 (pairs to 230 thousand euros, with an economic remainder of 19 thousand euros). The assembly also has favorably expressed on the initiatives of the Authority of Venice in topic of integrations of the agreement undersigned between NAPA and the Region of Mecleburdo-Pomerania Front for the development of the nets of connection between Alto Adriatico and the Baltic Sea, let alone on the extension to the Regions of reference of the memorandum undersigned between the ports NAPA on March 22, 2011 for the collaboration on the infrastructural projects.