Proseguirà the activity to the Taranto Container Terminal



the terminalista society Taranto Container Terminal (TCT), in spite of the loss of the landings place of the portacontainer oceanic of the shipowning group taiwanese Evergreen, in the next weeks will continue to mostly operate also during the waited for intense activities of requalification of the terminal containers to the Polisettoriale Pier serving traffics realized with ships feeder. This reassurance on near future of the activity to the container terminal of the port of the apulian city is yields yesterday of the encounter held near the Prefecture of Taranto to which they have participated, besides the representatives of the terminalista society, the summits of the Harbour Authority and the local institutions that to they time have been engaged to accelerate the intense activities of adaptation of the terminal and the participations of dredging, whose delay had induced TCT, that it is participated for 50% from the group Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), for 40% from the same Evergreen group and for 10% from GSI Logistics, to program a suspension ofthe activity.

Yesterday while president of the Region Puglia, Nichi Vendola, has written to the Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister, and for information to ministers of Infrastructures and Trasporti, the Job and the economic Development, so that it can estimate "the opportunity of a urgent convocation to Rome of all the involved parts". In the Vendola letter it remembers "the events tied to I throw again of the activity of the port of Taranto, for which in the February of 2012 an extraordinary commissioner for the performance of infrastructural works of strategic importance is named", works that - emphasizes - "they have matured in the time a worrisome delay".

"agitations of the workers by now in redundancy fund from more than two years, the decision of the terminalista to in fact move also the last transoceanica route from the port of Taranto to the port of the Pireo, interrupting any operating activity on the terminal, "the comprehensible" requests of the Harbour Authority to place to the terminalista "conditions" and "guarantees" of operativity - Vendola explains - are determining of the clutches that they could easy degenerate in an irreversible breach. Sul point, the choice of TCT to divert yesterday, towards the port of Trieste, the last attended transoceanica ship to Taranto, has contributed to still exasperate more the relationships already compromises. For this reason also to acquaintance of the initiative that the president of the Harbour Authority of Taranto prof. avv. Sergio Prete has undertaken in order to convene in Prefecture to Taranto, the presidency of the Council, the labor organizations and the TCT Spa, for an encounter finalized to the subscription of an ulterior agreement between the parts - the letter of president of the Region Puglia continues - asks to estimate the opportunity of a urgent convocation to Rome, the involved parts (ApTA, TCT Spa, the labor organizations and the Region Apulia) and to exercise how much never incisive action of mediation to recovery of normality in a picture of respect of the mutual ones you obligate assumed from the actors of the event. Intransgressible objective will be that to confirm the will common to continue in the distance undertaken, through the reassurance that the legitimate expectations of all will be satisfied through the employment of the huge resources available, fundamental for I throw again of the increase and the development of a truth already heavy hit".

On the critical situation in existence to the port of Taranto is taken part the general secretary of the Uiltrasporti Claudio Tarlazzi, that it has evidenced like "the delays in the infrastructuring of the port of Taranto put to risk the occupational future of the employees of the terminal container that manages the Polisettoriale Pier. They have not been enough every year passed after the programming and planning of the participations (beginning from the dredgings) - it has denounced - in order to adapt the port of call to the necessities and to the evolutions of the shipping. Slows down paid from the workers with the laid off one to spin that involves 530 workers give beyond two years. In order to exceed the administrative litigations and the atavistic evils that reduce the possibilities of development of the port of Taranto and the Country - it has found Tarlazzi - it is necessary that the government takes part with urgency in order to face any obstacle that depresses the opportunities of development of this port of call. More in general terms, very faces come legislative participations to throw again the entire harbour offer of our Country through a national planning of infrastructures and the logistics". According to the general secretary of the Uiltrasporti, "the Harbour Authority, instead, would have to have the courage to revoke the concession to the society of participated management Evergreen and Hutchinson and to announce publicly a finalized contest to select a new society which to entrust the management of the harbour area that has the ability to carry development to the territory and occupational stability".