In Spain the model of pubbico-private cooperation for the development of the ports is having happened



The model of collaboration between private public and in the Spanish ports works and is necessary in order to throw again the economy. It has emphasized the president of governmental agency Puertos of the Estado, José Llorca, taking part yesterday to the days on the pubbico-private cooperation in the logistic field that hold in the center of the Confederación de Empresarios de the Province de Cádiz (CEC). In particular, Llorca has evidenced the success achieved from the model of public-private partnership and the state property concession for the development of national harbour infrastructures.

"In last the 20 years - it has explained - the development of our ports has afforded us of having sufficient infrastructures of base in order to satisfy the potential question for next the 25-30 years. Therefore now our objective is that to concentrate on the necessary investments for the terrestrial connections of the ports and for the aspects legacies to us to the logistics".

Llorca has remembered that the investments publics in the Spanish ports are supported mainly, through the taxes, from the revenues that are generated by the users for the occupation of the ground or the use of infrastructures and, to a lesser degree, from deep European (906 million euros for period 2007-2013) and through the indebtedness (three billions of euro in 2010). The president of Puertos of the Estado has specified that, with the arrival of the crisis, he has happened in a 2009 decrease of the -12% of the traffic in the ports that a decrease of 500 million euros of the harbour investments from public part has determined and has involved an adaptation in the budgets of the Harbour Authorities is for that it concerns for staff to the expenses and that for those of management. Meantime - it has evidenced Llorca - the private sector has increased its investments in harbour infrastructures until to exceed the public quota, reaching 1,39 euros invested for every public euro, in way such that in 2013, regarding 412 million euros of investments publics, the private sector has invested 573 million euros.

Referring to the different it models of public-private partnership, Llorca has rimarcato the value of the harbour model of concession, thanks to which - it has explained - the Harbour Authorities do not assume risks and limit their role to the defense of the general interest, looking more to coherent economic and social returns with the principle of the economic self-sufficiency that presides to the management.

In consideration of the optimal results obtained with such model of collaboration - it has added Llorca - the intention of the ports is that to continue to promote this collaboration through the reduction of the harbour taxes (of which the tax occupation it constitutes 8.5%) and new subsidies to the private ones that they realize harbour works, while it is currently in phase of study the delay of the terms of the maximum duration of the concessions, from current the 35 years to 50 years. "These measures - it has specified - aim to attract terminalistici investor, operators and companies of navigation rather of great dimensions that return the ports on a worldwide basis Spanish active nodes of the transport nets".