the Harbour Authority of Trieste anticipates the initiatives in order to return "more and more green" the port of call giuliano



Al fine to improve its performances under the environmental profile the Harbour Authority of Trieste has started an articulate project in order to arrive also to the certification Emas (Echo-Management and Scheme Audit), a voluntary instrument proposed from the European Community in order to estimate and to improve the environmental performances and to supply to the public and other subjects interested information on a corrected environmental management. This and the other initiatives of the harbour agency in order to realize "a more and more green" port have been to the center of the entitled encounter "the environmental objectives of the held port of Trieste" today inside of hydrodynamic headquarters in the Old Port of the giuliana city. Al table of the relatori, Marina Monassi, president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Edo Ronchi, president of the Foundation for sustainable development, Antonio Paoletti, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste, Anna Maria Maggiore of the Ministry of the Atmosphere, Maurizio Spoto, director of the protect marine Area of Miramare.

Marina Monassi has emphasized that, reaching the objective to obtain of the Emas, Trieste would be according to port in Italy after Livorno and one of the little in Europe to equip itself of this certification that will allow with the harbour authority to consolidate its vocation ulteriorly "green": "so - it has explained - our agency will be equipped of a new managerial strategy, engaging itself to realize in all transparency a plan continually improvement of the environmental performances".

"The port of Trieste, the territory and the sea - it has found Edo Ronchi - is a unicum of environmental and natural, cultural wealth and of the laboriosità of its citizens. In order to guarantee the protection and the development that deserves, it is necessary to head at innovation, responsibility and sustainability, in particular for the green economy. It is on these lands that play the possibility to face the crises, economic social and environmental, that they hit also our Country and of being competitive also in the marine field. From the logistic point of view - it has added - the port of Trieste by sea boasts already a strong integration between transport and via track, that it goes sure valued as winning paper also from the environmental point of view".

The director of the marine Area protect of Miramare, Maurizio Spoto, has emphasized that "green and blue economy offers a development not only abstract, but concrete to the province of Trieste". To this end the director has then illustrated the idea to realize in the gulf of Trieste a Mab area, "Man and Biosphere" with the Unesco, project been born in last the three years, "that he presupposes a strong synergy between the various subjects interested to the sustainable development". The idea is received with favor by Anna Maria Maggiore of the Ministry of the Atmosphere, that it has suggested the insertion of Trieste, through the Mab area, "in the world-wide net of laboratories where to experience the green economy. For the Mab - it has specified - an ulterior increase could be assumed also".

"The Italian Chambers of Commerce, through the strategic lines connected to the economy of the sea - Antonio Paoletti has remembered in conclusion, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Trieste - are engaged in the development of distances of sustainability and environmental services to support of the harbour systems and the enterprises that operate in harbour within. All this strengthening the role of the Chamber of Commerce which subject meaningful for the increase of the echo-compatible row deriving from the interface function that the camerale system carries out in it confronts of the operators for various implementations of environmental character, legacies for example to White the Environmental Managers". Paoletti, moreover, has asked Edo Ronchi and the Ministry of the Atmosphere to enter for sustainable development with the Foundation in the scientific Committee for the Park of the Sea of Trieste.

In the margin of the convention, president Monassi has commented the sentence of the Regional administrative court of the Friuli Venice Julia that has rejected the resource introduced from Portocittà against the Harbour Authority for the cancellation of the convention which signed in 2010 for having in concession Old Port. "The sentences - it has declared - are applied, and as Harbour Authority we will totally apply it with great balance, therefore it seems me very well". The president has informed that on the ban for manifestations of interest for the Old Port in expiration on 23 July "several signallings have arrived and others will arrive some still". Regarding the relationship between Authority Portuale and Portocittà, the president has said that "the sentence leaves opened of the small openings in order to eventually close much good on the agreements; they have plannings on the interesting nets a lot, could be a fair exchange". At last on the displacement hypothesis, reduction or quite closing of the frank point, Marina Monassi has asserted that "it must be elastic, must preserve the beautiful one without to renounce to the job for the enterprises, for which I am opened to all the hypotheses".

By Edo Ronchi a dry one "not" to the hypothesis of a rigassificatore in the gulf of Trieste has arrived: "it is - it has explained - the mistaken positioning more that us it can be. Besides the environmental problems, there are also the problems of traffic in the channel, because unfortunately these liquefied gas tankers have the priority in the access to the port and therefore they risk to hinder of the functionalities and the development". A position shared from the president by Marina Monassi: "ours to the rigassificatore - it has specified - it is not solo which had to an economic fact for the entrance and the escape of the ships, than for us he is vital, but it is also legacy to the will to preserve the incredible good of the wonderful gulf of Trieste".