Count (To propel Taras Club): the reasons of the crisis of the port of Taranto are multiple



The forced dismissal of the work of dredging and riadeguamento of the terminal containers to the Polisettoriale Pier because of controversies on the award of the works that they generate repeated participations of the administrative law are the main cause of the dramatic crisis of the port of Taranto, but is not the single one. It emphasizes president of the International Propeller Club Porto of Taras, Michele Conte, evidencing that the harbour area in years two thousand, thanks to the restructure of the Polisettoriale Pier, had determined the direct and indirect realization of beyond job one thousand places that but is getting lost day after day and explaining that in characterizing the reasons of such forfeiture are neglected "to consider the drastic reorganization of the activities of disembarkation of the raw materials and boarding of the produced ones iron and steel, of the control of produced oil and the lacked attrattività for other fields the shipping.

"The attrattività of a port - Count finds - measure in continuous adaptation of infrastructures, and sure Italy in general terms it is not, and Taranto still less. The infrastructures are the retroportuali docks, backdrops and spaces, but the clarity in the programs of development of the territory is necessary also, in the norms that regulate the investments foreign countries in the time. Things that to Taranto lack completely".

"Some harbour operators, at their own expense - president of Propeller Club of Taranto remembers - have had to resort to the Regional Administrative Court for the cancellation of an incomprehensible deliberation of the town council that has as only effect that to delay, sine die, the approval, by the Region Apulia, of the Portuale Town development plan".

"The uncertainty of the execution of the dredgings - Count observes - holds far from the Italian ports the foreign investor. Next 19 will February Rome be an organized convention from Assoporti, Federation of the Sea and Federagenti from the title "Not dredgings? Not ships"! and this would have to make to reflect who believes that enough to contract out the dredging work because these can be realized in the assumed times. If Assoporti and Confcommercio "waste time" in order to organize perhaps a national convention wants to say that some problem beyond the disputes between contractors and outsourcer will be".

Perhaps "but - Count adds - all it is not lost. Who knows that the Greece that has carried to us via the traffic of the containers - explains - does not give back them to us on initiative of Tzipras. The new Greek government has threatened to make reverse on the privatizations and concessions in the port of the Pireo. We have to hope in this that Evergreen is forced by the Greeks to return to Taranto? And if this happened we would be ready to receive the new ships from 18.000 thousand teu that they will be delivered by the Japanese yards in 2018 in armament to the Evergreen? Yes, because to beyond the decisions of the Regional Administrative Court and the Council of State, if the criticalities of the norms and procedures that still characterize the execution of the dredgings not are removed - Count emphasizes - must traguardare 2018 as possible term of the work".

While, in order to make the point on the activities of transport in the Mediterranean, Propeller Club Port of Taras, on initiative of national Propeller, will at the end participate of the next April to an official visit to the Moroccan port containers of Tanger Med.