next Thursday to Brindisi a debate on the future of the port



the Harbour Authority of Brindisi has organized for next thursday to the hours 17,30 near the conference room of own center a public debate on the topic "the port of Brindisi: which future" to which the citizenship is invited.

While apulian senator Vittorio Zizza has introduced a interrogation to the minister of Infrastructures and of the Transports asking among other things Maurizio Lupi "if the determination of a centralized authority of system", than for the logistic district of low Adriatic-Ionian to which the port of Brindisi would belong would have would have center to Bari, "does not involve the exclusion of the port of Brindisi from the policies of development undertaken for giving support to the increase of Italy".

Remembering that it is intention of the minister to put into effect "a reform of the Harbour and logistic Authorities of interest strategic by means of the adoption of a national plan of the ports and logistics to put into effect with I Prime Minister's decree of the ministers, on its proposal", than "the plan it represents an action of strategic address for the definition of the order of logistic the harbour net and, whose central element is represented by the reduction of the number of current the 24 Harbour Authorities, to the aim to insert them in a wider context than logistic district", than, "to this end, are characterized eight districts: Tyrrhenian, medium high Tyrrhenian, low tyrrhenian, high Adriatic, Adriatic mean, low Adriatic-Ionian, Sicily and Sardinia" and that "the marking out of the logistic districts and the identification of the ports included in everyone is carried out on the base of some criteria, between which the belongings to the trans-European net of transport TRY", senator Zizza has asked minister Lupi which will be the role in this plan of the port of Brindisi, "like the minister addressed intends to give prominence to the peculiarities of every port, from the moment that everyone of they inequivocabilmente represents a central element for the surrounding territory, if there are of the margins of decisional autonomy in head to the single Harbour Authorities, if this reform of the harbour system does not lead in the mere one rearranges logistic answering to requirements of spending review to the detriment of the qualities and the potentialities own of every port" and "if not risks that the Harbour Authority front man, in this case that of Bari, exclusively pursues policies times to increase the activities of own port, being neglected the necessities and the defense of the mutual interests of the port of Brindisi inglobato in the district".

In evidencing the role of the port of the apulian and national economic Brindisi in system, the senator has found that "from the comparazione between the port of Bari and that of Brindisi, note that in the field of the transport Brindisi goods represents 7% of the market, while Bari the 3. Besides this - it has emphasized Zizza - only the two Italian ports that have grown in the 2012 are Brindisi with an increase of 2.18% and Trieste with 2.01% regarding 2011. Bari instead has lost very 11% of the volumes of traffic regarding the year precedence. An indicative given other regards the course of the traffic fleeting: between the 2012 and 2013 Brindisi it has lost 1.08%, while Bari has lost the 8,59. At last, between 2012 and the 2013 an increase of 91.22% of the traffic is recorded for Brindisi vehicles on "ro-ro" and "ro-ro pax", while for Bari a loss of 16.79%".