Protocollo of understanding between the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro and the Chinese Ying Kou Port Group Corporation

the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has signed a protocol of understanding with the Chinese Ying Kou Port Group Corporation (YKP), the group that manages the port of Yingkou. The agreement, promoted from the Calabria Region and the Province of Crotone, has the objective to start a greater valorization of the harbour areas of Crotone and Corigliano Calabro, with the opening of a logistics center of connection with China, the start of commercial exchanges and the investment in new technologies. The encounter is served also in order to estimate the harbour structure of Crotone and the connections with the roads, the railroad and the airport, all infrastructures already you anticipate on the territory.

"draft - it has emphasized the vice president of the Region, Antonella Stasi - of an historical agreement that could represent the start of a concrete commercial collaboration, considered also the harbour entity of Yingkou, that it turns out to be the twelfth more important of the world. In the had institutional encounter the bases have been delineated in order to open in times breviums a channel of interchange having stated real conditions for commercial agreements". Antonella Stasi has specified that the agreement will be perfected after to have exchanged again the visit to Yingkou in order to start an activity of trading and pure business, being involved the companies calabrians and the ports of Crotone and Corigliano.

While the Calabria Region has announced the delay of the terms of the public warning for the selection and the financing of contracts of investment of new initiatives of industrial logistics in Polo Intermodale di Gioia Tauro. The regional city council member to the productive Activities, Demetrio Arena, has remembered that "the ban engages on the APQ resources for the 18 25 million euros and expired september. I decree of delay - it has specified - fixed the new term for the presentation of the questions of facility to 25 October 2013". The decision to postpone the terms is some days before yields of an encounter had from the city council member with the representatives of trade associations and the enterprises interested near the center of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro in the course of which the associations had emphasized the necessity to obtain a delay of the terms for the presentation of the questions in consideration of the complexity of the necessary implementations for the predisposition and the presentation of the same ones, particularly of the necessary tempistica to the constitution of the consortium of enterprise in the specific field of the industrial logistics and the newsroom of the progettuali proposals.