the New Consortium of the Port of Trapani denunciation the unconcern with which the Region it has lowered the decision of Tirrenia to abandon the Trapani port



The Sicilian regional councillorship of Infrastructures, Mobility and the Transports has confirmed that the company of Tirrenia navigation has abandoned the port of Trapani having suppressed the connection with Cagliari. The New Consortium of the Port of Trapani has announced, the society cooperative recently constituted by operators of the Trapani harbour port of call that last month had addressed to the councillorship in order to speed up an participation in the event. The Consortium has specified that in a note, to signature of the leader of the service 2, Dora Piazza, the Sicilian Region explains that the proposal of modification of the convention asked from Tirrenia "is approved of with D.M. 361 on September 4, 2014" of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, together with the Ministry of the Economy and Finances, with the consent of the Sicily Region and the independent Region of the Sardinia, since "ostative conditions to the remodeling of the orders are not ravvisate".

"In short - it has found the Consortium - the navigation company has asked and obtained the abolition for uneconomical the Trapani-Cagliari draft because, upgrading in fact the Palermo-Cagliari line. According to Tirrenia, that it manages the connections in regime of public convection with the Been about to one to guarantee the territorial continuity with the islands, perceiving the sum of 72 million euros, this operation will make to save a million euro year".

"In reality - it has emphasized the Consortium - the distance between Palermo and Cagliari is of 217 nautical miles, while that between Trapani and Cagliari is of 176 nautical miles, with a difference of about 41 miles that clearly indicates for the draft from Trapani a reduction of about three hours of navigation and therefore a remarkable saving in terms of time for the users and of costs for the company".

The Consortium has remembered "that the Trapani-Cagliari line had been transformed from remunerative little profitable into Tirrenia, had denounced it also the New Consortium of the Port of Trapani that, numbers friendly, had explained some because. The problem - they had emphasized the Trapani harbour operators - has been born in 2009, when Tirrenia decided, without some appearing motivation, to move the boarding from Trapani for the Sardinia from the tuesday to Sunday, day in which heavy means and therefore the goods they cannot travel. From then on the draft has recorded clearly a decrease of traffics: it is come down from five thousand transported heavy means in 2008 to the 1,100 of 2013. Same thing for the traffic car and passengers: in the 2008 8,300 passages have been recorded, in 2013 hardly 3,000".

"Perhaps, therefore, more than a case - it has denounced the Consortium - put in existence by Tirrenia a real is strategy in order to convince the Ministry, the Sardinia Region and the Sicily Region that was more than founded the reason for which has abandoned the draft from Trapani and been doubled has that from Palermo? Which circumstantiated numbers, facts and details, of which the New Consortium of the Port of Trapani it had been made loaded, unheard, in a demand for urgent participation to the president of the Sicily Region and to the competent city council member so that the status quo existing until 2009 was restored. Today the bitter confirmation: not only the Region will not take part on the issue, but it has already approved of, without to execute some technical verification or I compare economic, the demand for Tirrenia because "it has not found ostativi reasons" to the modifications which claimed from the Company of navigation, guaranteeing moreover a "contextual modification in increase of the rates"".

"We learn with regret - it has concluded the New Consortium of the Port of Trapani - than our suspiciones were more than founded. The Sicily Region has approved of an ulterior operation of marginalization and impoverishment of the city of Trapani without not even not to consult the Trapani harbour operators and above all without to worry itself of the occupational fallen back ones that this decision could involve. We have been the only ones launch the alarm and to rebel to us against the decisions that rain from above without some justification. We will continue to make it with punctuality and determination. But we wonder: that being the case and not having some local political representative whom it supports to us, to who we will have to address for protecting the interests of our port and our territory"