Rossi (Tuscany Region): Piombino is "the only port in Italy that has the authorizations for destruction"



Yesterday the Conference of the services convened to Rome in order to decide on the destiny of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia has been concluded with nothing to all purposes and effects as the project of transfer of the cruise ship to Genoa for its dismantling, introduced by Costa Crociere, is rejected by the Tuscany Region and the Province of Grosseto, while they have expressed favorable opinions, with prescription, all the central administrations (the Protection and the Atmosphere, Ministries of the Interior of the Territory and the Sea, Infrastructures and the Transports, the Health and the Assets and the Cultural Activities, Ispra, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Agency of Customs), all from Liguria administrations (Liguria Region, Province and Municipality of Genoa, Arpal, Harbour Authority of Genoa, Sanitary Company of Genoa) let alone the Municipality of Isola del Giglio, ARPA Tuscany and the sanitary Company of Grosseto. The decision is sent back therefore to the Council of Ministers ( on 25 June 2014).

Last night the president of the Tuscany Region has motivated its preannounced opposition to the project of Costa Crociere. "Voting against - Enrico Rossi has explained - I have obtained that now it is gone to the Council of Ministers". The Tuscan governor has asserted that "it is itself intentional to exclude every appraisal compared between various projects. From part mine - it has added - I have declared the will to vote the Genoa hypothesis provided that a variable minim was accepted, that is that the day before the departure of the rigalleggiamento operations the state of advance of the work to the Piombino port happens. The answer to this demand has been that it is worth only the proposal of Costa Crociere".

"My position - Rossi has remembered - never is not changed by the beginning of this event. I will beat myself completely for precise environmental reasons. The Concord - it has emphasized - is a heap of iron marches within. For two years and means it has remained sunk on the coast of the Lily, against the environmental balances and the embrittlement of the island. Before one has been said that it would be removed in six months, then is passed another year and at last another anchor and the Lily and the Tuscany have had to sobbarcare this situation. To transfer the Concord to Genoa - the president of the Tuscany Region has denounced - is a ciclopica foolishness. The idea is not taken not even in consideration not to estimate proposed various, much reasonable as ours, that it holds account of the precaution principle, a principle to which it is inspired to us in all Europe also in absence of risks. One is said that the "window" useful in order to transport the ship to Genoa is narrow at the moment of weather high pressure, but in order to carry it to Piombino, with a travel of a single day, the "window" would be opened all the year. The government must reflect on the topic of the comparative appraisal and on the principle of precaution. You was the government I would feel the risk of a world-wide poor figure". Rossi however has specified that he will accept the decisions of the government that - it has said - "are well-respected".

Rossi has confirmed the validity of the Tuscany proposal to carry the property left at death one to Piombino: "if Piombino were ready to september, as I ask to verify - it has specified - does not interest me who will have to make the work, but the way is not private issue. The most numerous reunions have been made, all how many reunited in order to say yes Costa Crociere. It seems me a renunciation by the State to exercise its prerogatives on a common good". "We have made much good to invest on Piombino - it has found Rossi - in order to realize escavo to twenty meters and dock, works that make it to become truly competitive. Perhaps this choice has played back the Italian portualità. We are on the right roads, that he will give independently turned out from the outcome of the event of Costa Concordia. The work will continue second cronoprogramma and then the Harbour Authority will put to ban the realization of the dry dock for the demolition of the European ships and for the refitting of the cruise ships. Today - it has supported Rossi - we are the only port in Italy that has the authorizations for destruction. Also who has introduced a proposal for steel has appreciated these investments and it has been stopped on the logistic valence of the port".

While last Tuesday the city council member to the territorial Policies of the Municipality of Piombino, Martina Pietrelli, has visited the port of the city accompanied from the commissioner and president of the Harbour Authority, Luciano Guerrieri, in order to state the state of advance of the work. "It has been - the city council member has declared - an encounter much profit that has afforded to make the point on the participations in course and planned in one of the important infrastructures of our Region. Draft of the greatest transformation in existence from some decade over the last in our city and of great investments that will be able to give a meaningful impulse to the economy of our territory, to beyond the outcome of the event the Concord. I am convinced in fact that the sea represents a engine of central development and the transformation of areas as that harbour one is a challenge that we want to get ahead with concreteness and determination".

"In the course of the visit - it has specified Martina Pietrelli - I have been able to state that the work is going ahead second a cronoprogramma tightening. Until on 10 July the participations for the construction of the dams are on. From on 10 August it will begin instead the dredging of the backdrops in order to reach the depth of 20 meters of escavo. Within september the completion of the perimeter of the bathtub is previewed that will be able to receive the Concord".