Reggio Calabria confindustria, yes to the controls in the analogous port of Gioia Tauro but to those ducts in the concurrent ports of call



"The manufacturers of Reggio Calabria are absolutely in favor of the controls on the goods that journey from the port of Gioia Tauro, but judge indispensable to return the system more efficient and to place end to the disparity of treatment respect to other Mediterranean ports". It has emphasized Reggio Calabria Confindustria finding that "or the controls are conformed, at least on the European side, or this infrastructure will not have future".

Restating to judge "essential things the verifications on the container that pass from the docks calabrians", the association of the manufacturers of Reggio Calabria has drawn meanwhile the attention on the "paradox of a terminal that wage a dear price in terms of business and of image, also being that in which the greater efforts for safety are completed".

Reggio Calabria confindustria has evidenced some data supplied from Medcenter Container Terminal, the terminalista society of the group Contship Italy that manages the terminal for containers of the port of Gioia Tauro: in the calabrian port of call, against the ordinary assessments that are executed on all the goods, 2% of the container are subordinate to double control (scanner and opening of the cargo) against 0.1% of other truths as Valencia, Algeciras and the Pireo. These last ones - it has specified the association - are sure useful verifications but very more complex and therefore with a greater employment of time.

"These numbers - it has observed Reggio Calabria Confindustria - assume a greater meaning if estimated in the light of others important up to now not adequately considered data: the movement of teus to Gioia Tauro represents a third party of the Italian total but about the destined half of the container to our Country it is made to disembark here, from the moment that other ports are mostly destined to the exports".

To warning of MCT and Confindustria, the topic of the obvious difference of the controls between Gioia Tauro and its competitor return "an administrative participation of the European Union indispensable because it risks to being altered the competition of the market and therefore the situation would have to be attenzionata from the authorities antitrust. We - he has specified the association of the manufacturers - want efficient but everywhere compatible controls with the times of a total market that does not make reductions in price nobody. And with specific reference to our terminal, we ask an investment for the State in men and means to go to a greater efficiency. In the first place, it is necessary to invest in technological instrumentations, beginning from a system worse than surveillance camera, that the control activities become simpler; and in the second place, to increase the staff of customs and the Customs corps in order to avoid the absurdity of the suspension of the activities to the 17,30, moreover only in the week days, from the moment that in the weekend customs are closed. Nevertheless the peaks of traffic to the port are often recorded in the weekend".

Reggio Calabria confindustria has emphasized as this is a surrealistic situation that is carrying more and more often to see "bills of lading refused by the shippers if they bring back the words "Gioia Tauro". These - it has denounced the association - are the concrete problems of the port to which it is necessary to give quickly of the answers. Our auspice is that it is succeeded to return an indispensable system more efficient and fair to guarantee safety of the State and to contrast the organized crime, but that at the same time it cannot suffocate more important arranges economic of the metropolitan city. The port appoints to a job thousands of honest people - it has concluded Reggio Calabria Confindustria - and is task of the institutions to make so that those places are not put to risk from the interests of the organized crime, pervasiva yes, but also always minority regarding the generality of honest and laborious people as that calabrian".