Railway Net Italian confirmation the intention to realize the railway gateway of the port of Gioia Tauro



Italian Railway net (RFI) intend to respect the programs, the times and the resources indicated for the realization of the railway gateway of the port of Gioia Tauro previewed in the Agreement of program picture (Apq) "intermodal logistic Pole of Gioia Tauro" on September 28, 2010. The managing director of RFI, Michele Elia has confirmed, in the course of an encounter to Rome with the vice president of the Calabria Region, Antonella Stasi, for I confront on how much emerged during VII the Committee of Surveillance Por Calabria - Fesr in relation to the potenziamento project and modernization of the connection of the calabrian port to national the railway net to the base of the Apq undersigned by RFI.

The hypothesis of disengagement of RFI ventilated in the course of the Committee has provoked hard reactions, between which that of the president of the Province of Reggio Calabria, Giuseppe Raffa. "On the complex how much strange event - Raffa had declared - politics, the union, the Harbour Authority, the imprenditoria and the civil society cannot not wonder because the Railroads have decided to lose interest themselves in Gioia Tauro and to invest to the North. Nevertheless, the important infrastructure, indispensable for the development of the port and the entire industrial area, was considered priority, had obtained the inserted financing and in the Apq with the Calabria Region". For the president of the Province, "it proclaim then make pendant with Hush on the disengagement today". Emphasizing that "the words and the false opportunely destined indignation will not certainly help us to recover 40 million euros to the realization of the gateway", Raffa had announced the start of all the control and fight initiatives so that the project is realized, "because the future of the reggino - the president of the Province had explained - passes also through the development of the port of Gioia Tauro and of all the other initiatives that gives simple transhipment transform it in catalyst of investments and occupational occasions".

Confirming to the vice president of the Region the RFI will to realize the project, Elia has specified that the current impasse is attributable to procedural delays. The EU commission - it has specified Elia - is proceeding, in fact, to the appraisal of the cards sent so as it happens for all the great projects.

While the Calabria Region has convened for the next 1° July a reunion of the Committee in order to clarify ulteriorly and to verbalize, to the presence of the Authority of management of the PON Nets, the will to continue in the financing of the investments previewed from the Apq. "The Calabria Region - it has evidenced Antonella Stasi - is being engaged with great determination for the port of Gioia Tauro. The ban for the incentives to the enterprises that will want to be installed in the retroporto é by now started and the ferrobonus will accompany the investments of those companies that they want to use the port as hub logistic with I use it of the arranged ship-train. Sussistono all the elements and the conditions in order to put to I yield the potentialities of the gioiese harbour port of call and is unthinkable that the government can be pulled behind and definanziare the high ability. This - it has concluded - is a crucial moment of the life of the calabrian port and the carried out one in positive could be very near also graces to a greater attention by the national government".