Piro (AP Nord Sardinia) writes to minister Lupi in order to ask for the abolition of the service Genoa-Olbia-Arbatax ferry



The president of the Harbour Authority of the North Sardinia, Paolo Piro, giving I yesterday keep on the mandate received from the Harbour Committee in the sitting, has sent to a letter to the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, invoking a its participation so that the next October of the line is avoided the abolition beginning from trisettimanale ferry Genoa-Olbia-Arbatax operated from Tirrenia - Italian Company of Navigation (CIN).

Draft - it has emphasized Piro in the letter - of "a continuous connection that has been and to strategic being in the system of the marine transports from and for the island; carrier of vital traffics and wealth for a region heavy penalized from the insularity and a economic-social condition at the best of the collapse".

"So as conceived, in case the decision had to be definitively sanctioned inside of redigenda the State-Tirrenia Convention on the connections from and for the Sardinia - it has found the president of the Harbour Authority - an ulterior mortal blow for the harbour system would constitute of the Sardinia North and Arbatax".

Piro has remembered to minister Lupi the traffic hemorrhage that the three ports of the Sardinia North have recorded during the last few years because of the impact of the economic crisis: "he is inexorable - it has specified - the last data on the traffics from and for the ports of call of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres that, in hardly two it fit out (2010-2012), cause economic crisis and reduction of 23.5% of the movements ship (about duemilacinquecento between arrivals and departures), has determined beyond 36% of the passengers in arrival and departure, the equivalent of about two million and 100 thousand units, and 13% on the goods transported on rubberizing, with a substantial decrease of a million tons in income and escape. Decrease that, hurt me to emphasize, are continuing to find also in the course of first semester 2013".

"I cannot be esimere, moreover - it has continued Piro - signaling the remarkable uneasiness that the choice would bring to compact the productive one isolates, with the definitive loss of competitiveness in the national scene. Hundreds of companies would be forced to entrust to the only marine connection for Genoa (every day of Tirrenia) the active one on the port of call of Porto Torres, with a dangerous congestionamento of the same one and the street arteries, between all a Olbia-Sassari civil servant, unfortunately to the continuous one overturn in the reports for the mortal incidents. Still more, the cut would go to affect the dramatic occupational situation of the operators of the port, in particular on employees of the harbour Company Filippo Corridoni of Olbia (than currently it carries out the harbour operations on behalf of the Tirrenia), thirty-three of which in regime of redundancy fund from the month of January 2013".

Piro has concluded expressing "the wish that can be reached to a pacific solution that make except the connection with from Liguria port".