Also to Taranto and Messina it is discussed about the amalgamation hypothesis of the Harbour Authorities



The hypothesis to centralize the governance of various Italian ports through the amalgamation of some Harbour Authorities, that it is left over by the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Maurizio Lupi, and has been continuation from an analogous proposal by the Party Democratic who previews also it a coordination, an integration or an amalgamation of the Harbour Authorities, continues to make to mainly discuss in those cities center about the harbour agencies that risk to being accorpati to others. In these cities, as Savona, Ancona and Salerno, multiply the critics to the proposal of the minister whom, in the first instance, account of the peculiarities of the not governed ports from local a Harbour Authority would not hold more.

Also Taranto could lose the center of the harbour authority. For president of the The International Propeller Club Port of Taras, Michele Conte, "in absolute the reduction of the number of ports alleviates of Harbour Authority is a primary requirement and to make it today is still more. But - it has observed - if the criterion to follow favors elettoralistiche requirements or worse than bell tower, will once again be a lost occasion". Count has found that "minister and Left Democratic, regarding Taranto, Bari and Brindisi, think to the simplistic amalgamation" and have remembered that "in the various Plans of the Transports of the Region Apulia always it has been spoken to specialize the ports for giving to maximum effectiveness to the apulian system: Bari, cruises and ferries; Several Brindisi fleeting and goods; Taranto industrial and commercial port". "If they are accorpati under Bari, as it seems, without some criterion or operating project to the base - Count has wondered - Taranto that fine it will make? It was thought to a pole of industrial and commercial logistics with port, retroporto and airport and now? For the distribution of the resources and the programming of the works it will succeed what it succeeds with Anas and the Management Airports of Apulia? It is not bell tower - it has emphasized president of Propeller Club of Taranto - is rationality"

If Taranto risks to lose the center of the harbour authority, Messina wants that assumed the new Harbour Authority (or Logistic District) of the coast oriental of the Sicily, in which the harbour agencies of Messina, Catania would be accorpati and Augusta, has center in the city of the Strait. They have emphasized in a letter sent to minister Lupi the representatives of the professionals, the enterprises and the local unions: Order of Architects P.P.C of the province of Messina, Order of the Forest Agronomists and of the province of Messina, Order of the Engineers of the province of Messina, Consults provincial of the Geologi of Messina, Messina Confindustria, Messina Reeds, Cgil Messina, Cisl Messina, Legambiente of the Peloritani, College of the Geometricians, College of the Industrial experts, Foundation Architects in the Mediterranean, Inarsind Messina and Asso.Ingegneri

In the missive to Wolves, that we publish below, the professional, entrepreneurial organizations and trade-union messinesi have evidenced in fact that "it cannot not be imagined that Messina has all useful requirement to being able to carry out the role of center of the Logistic District" and has rimarcato that "Messina for its strategic geographic position is vocazionalmente hub of a evolven intermodal armor and competitive". "This - they have concluded - is how much we ask with force, in the optical of the opportunity to grant to the territory in question to enter in the international competition and not of the defense of sterile parochial assertions".

Al Minister of Infrastructures and the Transports
On. Maurizio Lupi
segreteria.lupi@mit.gov.it

and, p.c.

On. Vincenzo Garofalo
Member Commission You transport of the Chamber of Deputies
vigarofalo@gmail.com

Ill.mo Mr.
Dr. Antonino De Simone
President of the Harbour Authority of Messina and Milazzo
segreteria@porto.messina.it

Ill.mo Mr.
Prof. Renato Accorinti
Mayor of Messina
segreteriasindaco@comune.messina.it

To all the press



OBJECT: reform arranges harbour. Letter opened to the Minister of Infrastructures and the Transports. Member of parliament Ministro,

the process of organic reform by now seems to be joined to definition that will have to give a new face to the Italian portualità; reform for which the regional borders and Italy would disappear would come uniform in at least eight logistic districts, representatives of the areas comprised in the nets Tries European and everyone of these eight districts would have to be under responsibility "to Logistic a Harbour Authority and of Strategic interest (APL)", all being based on the principle of the "Cores ports". In fact they would disappear, second the indiscretions collections, the harbour authorities so as previewed from law 84/94 and the new agencies would manage not only the docks, but all the logistic row, not attending to the regional borders. The topic, stimulating, has carried the underwriters of anticipates to the appraisals that, in so far as, among other things, oriental of the Sicily (Messina, Catania speaks itself also about an imminent amalgamation of the three Harbour Authorities of the coast and Augusta), would want evidenziarLe.

The widest harbour system of the Sicily oriental rests:

on the port of Catania, which interesting crossroads of exchanges ro - ro for the Adriatic and the South Europe - North Africa, than but are not present in the system of the ports TRY and lack the railway connection in the port;
on the port of Augusta, more to south, that it constitutes the potential platform goods containers of the Sicily; Augusta is Core in the system of the ports TRIES and insists in a bay with great potentialities of expansion, protect from wide dams detached moles that define a watery mirror of remarkable proportions, enclosing an oil terminal, two diportistiche docks and a military arsenal of absolute importance. The port possesses also new commercial large squares and ro-ro with dedicated practicability of connection. It lacks the railway connection;
on the harbour system Messina - Milazzo, more to north of the three, that it is constituted by five ports (Messina - oadstead S. Francesco, historical port, landing place of Tremestieri) (Milazzo - historical port and oil systems, the industrial systems in the zone of Giammoro in which the wharf, which ulterior is evidenced constructing element of excellence and potentiality). The characteristics of this harbour system are notes: from a part the location of Messina in the Area of the Strait which door of the Mediterranean from and for Africa, Asia and Europe, from other Milazzo in its role of hinge with the Aeolian islands and as interface (with Giammoro) of the port of Gioia Tauro. The port of Messina represents the first Italian port for number of passengers (Eurostat survey - 9 million), the first Sicilian port and the more important intermodal node of the area of the strait, the first Sicilian port for number of landings place and number of crocieristi (500,000), the first port for total volumes in solid and liquid Sicily of goods (respective 6 and 16 million tons), the first port for commercial means ferried (800,000). Other point of force of the port of Messina is the presence of the railway connections that return present, and potentially amplificabile, an offer of fines transport modality train - rubber - ship that, in the optical of sustainable mobility of the net It try, constitutes unavoidable and irrenounceable element, in relation to its strategic position in the within of the entire Italian harbour system.
He is not in fact imaginable to prescind from the Messina node, in order to guarantee effectiveness and efficiency to the ill-famed Helsinky corridor - the TV assistant, than adventure through Verona, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bari, Taranto, Gioia Tauro and Palermo.
The line ro - ro Messina - Salerno is all today one of the most efficient freeways of the sea in Italy, possible yield from the position better than Messina regarding the other Sicilian ports.
Messina - Milazzo is comprehensive in the system of the ports Tries and is important center garrisons of Marina Militare.

The appraisals that, to light of the analyses over synthetized, are proposed as ulterior element of reflection and deepening cannot prescind from the scene of Immense Area, previewed also from the performance of the Metropolitan City, that it will have to guarantee a level of adapted development to insert all the space comprised in the Metropolitan City in the context of the advanced areas of the space Mediterranean Euro. It is considered strategic, in this context, integration of the two metropolitan areas of Messina and Reggio Calabria, in the name of the principle of territorial continuity constitutionally guaranteed. Such scene expresses enormous potentialities under economic, social, cultural, environmental and landscaped the profile.

The key word for the future of this area is joined economic increase to the environmental sustainability. Also recognizing that a decisive role to the resumption of the economic system local drift from the ability to the national government to take part in order to reduce the external diseconomie of the territories of Southern Italy, to diminish the fiscal cargo, that weighs on on the enterprises and the job, to upgrade material and immaterial infrastructures, to contract unproductive the public expense, must be taken conscience that the game does not only depend from the policies of the national government.

It cannot be imagined that the data to the process of innovation and change must be given solo from the central institutions. The game depends also from all the actors of the territory, from their ability to make system, to value the local resources, to create positive conditions and of advantage that stimulates the attraction of new investments and, therefore, the possibility to create job opportunity. It is necessary to show, in the facts, a greater sensibility towards the general interest, to recover the civic sense of the belongings, the pride of their identity; the ability to speak in unison, manifested from the subject underwriters of anticipates famous, can represent the emblem of a territory that feels the requirement, not more procrastinabile, than to place in being the reasons of the waited for change.

It is necessary, still, to mark a radical change of direction in the promotion of a new strategic vision of system, that he is coherent with the barycentric geographic position in the context of the Mediterranean and with the new lines of address of the European Union, that it considers the metropolitan cities key element in order to compete in the globalizzato world. Focal point in this perspective of development is also, as saying, the aggregation of the two metropolitan cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria: strategic, necessary aggregation, would be said almost natural.

An area in a position to generating economic advantage and economies of scale that will allow with the new system to compete with other European metropolitan cities that appear on the Mediterranean, for the attraction of investments and the ability to innovation, indispensable conditions in order to intercept flows of goods and services that journey in the Mediterranean from and towards Europe.

In this new European space it will be possible to value the wide and qualified which underused resources, the environmental and cultural patrimony, to develop to new activity in the fields of the logistics, of the shipbuilding one, in the field of tourism. The metropolitan area of the Strait in which the cities of Messina and their immense and articulated Reggio must have an active role not only but also hinterland, represents a common good, to characterize as element of excellence for a sustainable, able development to value the genius loci of the integrated area of the Strait that sink own roots in the Myth and that in the last few decades it has remained, unfortunately, submergeeed.

Aware that Messina and Reggio Calabria have been strong when they have been between integrated they while they have been weak people when they have been ignored, is considered has reached the moment to engage itself directly in order to support the realization of the Metropolitan Area of the Strait, with integration of the two metropolitan cities, that it constitutes the key of time for the future development of our territory, reaffirming so the role that Messina deserves of having in the regional panorama, national and European.

It must strive in order to place, as it has happened for others very more important and meaningful processes of integration, the first stone in the construction of this ambitious, but realizable, and thrilling project of political and territorial cohesion of the Metropolitan Area of the Strait.

A plurimodale articulate integration of all the services of transport prevails that, for being managed effectively, implies the creation of able Authority to coordinate and to plan the sector choices. Integration becomes necessary in order to try to play an important role and not more rinviabile as strategic part of a logistic platform more wide that must indissolubly tie the Sicily and the Calabria, opened to the flows of assets that journey for the Mediterranean with Europe destination and the America North.

New APL will have to succeed to manage and to promote the integrated logistics and to activate financial instruments for the realization of necessary infrastructures, through the adoption of an Integrated Plan Logistic (GDP) for own district, that it will have to comprise also the harbour objectives of traffic, the definition of the level of the services to distribute, the infrastructural participations to complete itself, infrastructures of connection between the ports and areas back in the within of the integrated customs logistic systems.

In this optical and regarding the reasonings up to here developed, it cannot not be imagined that Messina has all useful requirement to being able to carry out the role of center of the Logistic District. Essential and strategic role is respect to a hypothesis always hard and not to underrate a priori, but to deepen in opportune way, tied to evidenced how much over and therefore to the creation of a Logistic District “System of the two Seas”, reported particularly to the homogenous Area of the Strait, is regarding the hypothesis of creation of a Logistic District that would have to be born from the amalgamation of the Harbour Authorities of Messina, Catania and Augusta, than however, in a strategic logic of “Immense Area”, in fact it projects Messina also in the Area of the Strait.

This, still more naturally, in relation to the interregionalità of the systems “Core ports”.

Messina for its strategic geographic position is vocazionalmente hub of a evolven and competitive intermodal armor.

This is how much we ask with force, in the optical of the opportunity to grant to the territory in question to enter in the international competition and not of the defense of sterile parochial assertions.

It is sure that Its proclivity to the dialogue not Appello lacking in answer lascerà this and, if had the possibility to insert in Its agenda an encounter with the City of Messina, which strategic place of territorial integration, will be ready to incontrarLa and to dimostrarLe the fondatezza of the reasoning proposed to Its attention.

Messina,

Faithfully yours.

Order of Architects P.P.C of the province of Messina
Order of the Forest Agronomists and of the province of Messina
Order of the Engineers of the province of Messina
It consults provincial of the Geologi of Messina
Messina confindustria
Messina reeds
Cgil Messina
Cisl Messina
Legambiente of the Peloritani
College of the Geometricians of the province of Messina
College of the Industrial experts of the province of Messina
Foundation You plan in the Mediterranean
Inarsind Messina
Asso.Ingegneri