To seem favorable of the Harbour Committee of Livorno to the cession of quotas the Harbour Authority in Porto 2000



Yesterday the Harbour Committee of Livorno has given the go-ahead free to the cession of quotas the Harbour Authority in the Port of Livorno 2000, the fleeting society that manages the traffic in the Leighorn port of call and that currently it is participated with 72% from the harbour authority and with 28% from the Chamber of Commerce of Livorno that yesterday in its turn has announced the will to yield part of own quota.

The deliberation has seen the single contrary opinion of the mayor of Livorno, Filippo Nogarin. Past friday the Town council had approved of to wide majority an address action with which the first citizen of Livorno has introduced himself to the reunion of the Harbour Committee and that specific that is necessary "to as a priority recognize in the process of dismissioni the protection of the conditions of job of the currently employed staff in the society and that the highest bidder of the contest can forward in continuity the job relationship, engaging the property (Harbour Authority and Chamber of Commerce) to a pre-emptive dealing on the guarantees to introduce in the ban, to this end, before its publication"; and moreover that it is necessary "to ask that capitulated the agreements greater weight the progettuale proposal to which reference in Triennial Operations plan 2013-2015 and the Industrial Plan is made, regarding the entity of the economic offer".

"The law - the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno has remembered, Giuliano Gallanti - imposes us to come down under 50% and recently we have received sollicitations also from the State Audit Court and the Guarantor Authority for competition; if we do not go ahead the Harbour Authority of Livorno risks to pander to precise penal and administrative responsibilities".

With respect to the quotas participation to sell, on the escort of the analysis that advisor the Kpmg has delivered to the Harbour Authority, the Harbour Committee has expressed a almost unanimous opinion, with 12 ballots favorable opinions, establishing that, in order to avoid that the contest goes desert, it is necessary is yielded the absolute majority of the quotas. Hard of the pronunciamento of the Town council of friday the mayor has manifested perplexity evidencing the necessity to inside safeguard the public role of the social compages of the Port of Livorno 2000: "I consider - Nogarin - that it is favorable that the Harbour Authority yields only 23% or, to the maximum, 37%, that is the majority of the quotas to its disposition has said. It is not necessary to proceed beyond. The true urgency is debit a certainty of approaches to the cruises".

Answering to some puntualizzazioni on the necessity to guarantee the occupational levels and on possible carried out monopolist determined from the cession of the quotas, the president of the Harbour Authority has assured that the argument will be faced when it will begin itself to prepare the contest ban. "The objective - it has clarified Gallanti - is that to insert of the social clauses that preview A) that the workers of Porto 2000 conserve own place of work; B) that the aggiudicatore subject, if shipping, does not prevent to the concurrent ships to land in port. Once manifactured the ban, we will return in Committee in order to start a detailed argument".

"We - he has continued Giuliano Gallanti - want to sell to the best possible conditions and dirimente consider to the aims of the award of the European contest the presentation of a serious plan of investments that for our part justifies the delay of the concession". The president of the Harbour Authority has confirmed that this is the opportune moment in order to proceed to the cession of the quotas: "between the turn of the year and the beginning of 2015 - it has explained - we will on hand have the side north of the Italy Pier and we will be able to use it or for delocalizzare since quickly the traffics of the forest ones or in order to accommodate the cruise boat larger. This is best time in order to proceed with sale of Porto 2000, indeed, we must be dealt because today we have already the possibility to give of the sure answers who it asks to invest to Livorno". "Let us put overhead a thing - it has emphasized Gallanti - if we do not move, if we do not sell Porto 2000 before the concession (in 2019 expires, ndr), then yes that the workers of the society truly risk to end in road. A thing, in fact, is to for research purposes prepare a contest for triple object of a private subject, of a manager of the services and of a concessionaire, another would be that to only announce publicly a contest for the confidence of the concession. To this last one anyone could participate. Other that seven million euro. To that point who wanted to buy up the traffic of the cruises to Livorno, it could make it for a fist of nuts and without having to respect some type of social clause or contractual burden. And, attended well, Porto 2000 would participate to the contest of the award as any other concurrent subject".

The hypothesis to proceed now to the cession of the quotas finds the Concorde also the Chamber of Commerce of Livorno: "we are available - the president of the Chamber of Commerce has said, Sergio Costalli - to get ahead with the authority a dismissione plan that you carry the public participation to a third party of the capital of the society. But - it has specified - before we ask is modified the charter of Porto 2000: the attainment of the qualified majority of the ballots for the more important decisions is previewed, those which impattano mainly on the society".