Deep to the port of Piombino for the completion of the structures for the demolition and the refitting of the military ships


the Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, and the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, Luca Lotti, has signed the provision that, relatively to the Agreement of program on the putting in safety of the site of reclamation of national interest of Piombino, assigns ulterior bottoms for 20 million euros, already approved of slid 1° August from the Interministerial Committee for Economic Planning (CIPE), for the requalification of the port of the Tuscany city, deep destined mainly to the development of the activities of dismantling, maintenance, restoration and transformation of ships.

Now the CIPE will put 20 million on hand of the Tuscany Region that in its turn provvederà to transfer them to the Harbour Authority of Piombino. It will be this last one in fact to call the contest of contract for the completion of the necessary docks to the demolition and for the refitting of the military ships.

"To this point - it has emphasized mayor of Piombino, Massimo Giuliani - can indeed be begun to speak about destruction and refitting about the military ships. The port of Piombino assumes a strategic importance for Europe for the Mediterranean. The ports that take care of naval dismantling - have explained - they will be in fact strategic, online also with the new European norms that will have to establish requirement necessary to the ships in order to furrow waters of the Mediterranean. The objective is in fact also that more and more to safeguard the basin of the Mediterranean from the environmental point of view and the engagement of the Italian government and the ministry of the Atmosphere in such direction is extremely important and meaningful". Giuliani has remembered that in the first nine months of 2014, in the full load of the race in order to adjudicate the dismantling of the property left at death one of Costa Concordia, the Harbour Authority of Piombino however had already supplied to realize, to times allocated records and with the deep ones from the Region Tuscany, a new dock in a position to receiving the ships of great tonnage.

Also the president of the Region Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, has expressed satisfaction for the allocation of the deep ones: "we in this way put - it has commented - an ulterior dowel in the realization of the agreement of program for the area; an ahead important step, after the income of Cevital, that it realizes, in the within of the complex of actions which we are working, another element for giving to sure solution to the economic difficulties and social accumulatesi in these years in the area". "I like to emphasize me - it has added Rossi - that previewed how much from the Region for the port, like the digging to twenty meters of the backdrop, very demonstrates an investment to beyond the possible arrival of the property left at death one of the Concord. An investment that puts the local Harbour Authority in a position to offering services of high quality in order to give again to Piombino the industrial role still more competitive that it is up for tradition and competence".