the Harbour Committee of Trieste approves of budget 2013 of the harbour authority without the ballot of the local institutions



A blustering sitting that today's one of the Harbour Committee of Trieste that has approved of budget 2013 of the Harbour Authority that anticipates a remainder of administration of 11,6 million euros and 20 million euros of investments with funds own for the realization of harbour works. If at first, in fact, the access to the encounter, opened were prevented to the press, to the journalist of the daily paper "the Little one", then admitted to the reunion, they have been therefore the mayor of Trieste, Roberto Consolini, and the city council member to Infrastructures of the Region Friuli Venice Julia, Mariagrazia Santoro, to abandon the sitting being complained not to have received the relation anniversary 2013 of the harbour agency subordinate to voting.

The president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Marina Monassi, has commented that "+63% of the teu from 2010 to 2013, that is from 281.643 to 458.597 teu, and the goal of being the first port of Italy for total traffics continues to being supported from the investments of the Harbour Authority in infrastructures that on one side the tons managed in the port of call and the occupation increase, from the other the entrances to plow back in the immediate one in order to improve the competitiveness. A shared managerial strategy from the economic categories, the unions and the operators - it has emphasized - that they have once again approved of unanimously budget 2013, when instead - Marina Monassi has denounced - the local and regional institutions have chosen not to participate to the ballot and to abandon the sitting of the Harbour Committee in advance".

From part its, instead, city council member regional Mariagrazia Santoro has evidenced emptying of value of Committee Harbour regarding role that it is recognized for law, as - has found - they turn out seriously insufficient the information that the members of the Committee receive by the president of the Harbour Authority, in spite of a greater sharing was already formally demanded in precedence sat. Illustrating the reasons of the lacked participation to the ballot by the Region on two documents, the statement financial and the relation anniversary, the city council member to Infrastructures has observed that to the local authorities members of the Committee essential documents for an adapted appraisal are not supplied and therefore for the expression of an informed ballot. Of the lacked shipment the relation anniversary - he has specified Mariagrazia Santoro - the president of the Harbour Authority, that he has considered of being able to prescind from such objective deficiency, demanding however the voting of the document has acknowledged also. The city council member has concluded wishing that the Harbour Committee is riconvocato shortly, placing to agenda the clarifications many times over demanded on the single arguments.

In the course of the today's reunion of the Harbour Committee also it is given the go-ahead free definitive to the project Green Bridge of the Samer Seaports & Terminals Srl that has introduced the study of appraisal of the impact of the new written up railway terminal from Uniontrasporti. The new railway terminal will have use of a regime of uses public, therefore direct freight trains will be able to approach you also the other harbour terminals, besides to allow the pause and the maneuver according to the requirements of the which charged society of railway handling. From the study it emerges as the new railway terminal will not create hampers neither to the internal practicability to the harbour area, neither to the management of the railway park and will serve to increase and to improve the services supplied to the customers of the port of Trieste. "Green Bridge - Marina Monassi has explained - will guarantee to Trieste at the same time to remain gate of income of Turkey in Europe with the more important freeway of the sea of the Mediterranean, favoring immediate investments and tens of assumptions".