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Assologistica wishes that the demolition of Costa Concordia is carried out in the port of Taranto
Appello to president Napolitano for an oxygen puff to the exhausted economy of the city
February 10, 2014
Assologistica has sent today to an official letter to the president of the Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, representing the possibility and the opportunity to carry out the operations of demolition of the Costa Concordia ship in the port of Taranto.
In the letter the vice president of Assologistica, Giancarlo Russo, that it has delegation for Southern Italy, has evidenced that Taranto can "candidate which more suitable Italian port and extremely more economic respect to others, as it can accommodate the Costa Concordia ship without details you work of infrastructural adaptation (that they would be instead necessary in ports nearer the place of the tragic sinking of the ship in question)".
the association has specified that the demand for attention turned to president Napolitano is not born from economic conveniences and of space, than also is objective, confirmed from the consideration that "Taranto boasts a great navalmeccanica and shipbuilding specialization", but the most serious crisis in which the economy and the social life of the city they pour as a result of the notes industrial and environmental events on which fascinate, in addition, the negative conjuncture of the harbour traffics.
the city - it has found Russian in the missive - "as it is very famous, weevers a extremely difficult moment, is from the occupational point of view that give that environmental one" and the demolition of Costa Concordia "would be an oxygen puff for the exhausted economy of the city of Taranto, in particular for the working young people of the shipbuilding field, than to the current state they daily live the oppression of unemployment".
Assologistica has emphasized that the letter wishes the hope that the attention of the president of the Republic on this dramatic problem can provoke necessary the public debate so that a vital possibility is given to this martoriata city of Southern Italy.
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