Priest: it is essential that the cronoprogramma of the work in the port of Taranto he is applied and respected by all the administrations



The president of the Harbour Authority of Taranto, Sergio Prete, confirmation the importance to quickly get ahead the work in the apulian port. Replying to the worries manifested from some parliamentarians of the Party Democratic for the delays in the execution in port of the works already financed and on the future of the private investments in the port of call, Priest has explained that "the situation is effectively extremely important, visa - it has evidenced - the role recognized to the Jonian port of call in the future programming of the Italian and continental transports. It does not have to forget, in fact, that of Taranto represents the third national port of call for traffic of goods and is characterized as one of European strategic infrastructures".

"The development of the port of Taranto - it has added the president of the harbour agency - has an impact and a total importance, since interests all Europe and far Paesi as the China and Taiwan, of which two of their greater companies, Hutchison Port Holdings, of property of the billionaire of Hong Kong Li Ka ? shing, and the Evergreen has invested on the territory. Such situation has a great attention by the Italian government". "For how much it concerns to the relationships with HPH and Evergreen - it has specified Priest - becomes clear that, to the aim to exceed the serious situation of impasse deriving from the lacked realization the demanded and necessary infrastructural participations of competitive adaptation of the port, which extended until 2011, the agreement of june 2012 is signed ( on June 20, 2012, ndr) and the extraordinary commissioner is named (than he cannot but repeal in part in environmental matters to the communitarian norms and those). Meanwhile the planning of the works is managed, is in phase of conclusion the procedure of award of the adaptation work/consolidation of the dock of the Polisettoriale Pier, in the next few days will be concluded the iter of approval of the dredging and of the overwhelmed bathtub of and quickly after the procedures of approval of the outer dam will be concluded and of the root of the dock of the Polisettoriale Pier and, at last, the agreement is found, after 15 years, for the offshoring of the Terminal Bulk".

"É of all evidence - it has continued Priest - than this is a particularly delicate moment because much HPH that Evergreen asks that the procedures and the work are concluded in the short possible time, and are for that the extraordinary commissioner has already asked the Presidency of the Council to for sharing convene a reunion to half september of a cronoprogramma of the ulterior activities that it is binding, just for the sake of the public parts that for those private ones; in such occasion, moreover, the extraordinary commissioner, beyond facing also problematic the relative one to the redundancy fund, intends to propose the institution of a narrow committee of referring of the involved administrations. It is necessary, therefore, to maintain high the attention on the procedures and their tempistica in order to avoid to prejudice the project of I throw again territorial that necessarily passes through the realization of the competitive adaptation of the port and that it sees in the increase of the containerized trade one of the points hinge, also to the aim to allow the concrete development of logistic infrastructures some of which already under realization".

"It becomes essential - he has concluded Priest - than the cronoprogramma is applied and respected from all the administrations in rigorous way, otherwise there is the risk that how much paventato comes true and the foreign investor can themselves be withdrawn. Very he comes, therefore, an attention diffused on the procedures of approval/execution of the works and also a support to attività' of the extraordinary commissioner near the competent administrations to the release of the several approvals and prescription".