To Molfetta the municipal administration decides to make to manage the port to the Harbour Authority of the East



Yesterday the town council of Molfetta, with 19 you anticipate, has approved of as proposed from the majority the understanding protocol in order to assign the management of the city commercial port to the Harbour Authority of the East, whose jurisdiction currently covers the ports of Bari, Barletta and Monopolies.

The adhesion to the Harbour Authority - the alderman to the Public works, infrastructures, port, Giovanni Abbattista has explained in the course of the debate - is a objective that we pursue as development opportunity. Remembering that the city port is situated geographically to the center regarding the ports of Bari, Barletta, Monopolies and Manfredonia, the city council member has exhorted the councilmen to estimate which it is in this picture the role that the port of call can assume: "he is obvious - he has explained - than we we have two options. We have the option that is that localist one, of bell tower, tied to an autarchy kind: therefore the port of Molfetta that is proposed on the market having looked for to intercept the traffics with own resources, own force, own ability to program, to make promotion of if same. Is other possibility, other option, that it is that to make reference the Harbour Authority that is a system of net and a composita truth more, is a unitary truth that is composed more ports. And obviously for Molfetta it is physiological, sight the geographic positioning, that it inside enters of the Harbour Authority of the East whereby tasks that this option is that which can allow us to favor the development, the occupation and how much other".

In its Abbattista participation it has specified which are the volumes enlivened from the port of Molfetta in the period 2007-2014 second the data supplied from the Harbour office: in the 2007 tons are enlivened 224 thousand; in the next year 262 thousand tons; in the 2009 they have been 277 thousand; in 2010 224 thousand, with a bending of -19%; 219 thousand in 2011; in year 2012 147 thousand tons (- 32% regarding the year precedence); in the 2013 41% have been 85 thousand (-); this year to December tons are 157 thousand. "It is - it has found the city council member - the smaller port for volumes than traffic of the arrondissement, at least of the situation that we record inside of the Harbour Authority". "This - it has concluded - is the truth of the traffics that crystallizes and places the port of Molfetta in a truth, under the harbour profile, depressed".