the Harbour Committee of Taranto on a collision course with Taranto Container Terminal



Yesterday the Harbour Committee of Taranto has met in order to discuss about problematic to the terminal the containers of the port of call that is managed by the Taranto Container Terminal (TCT), society participated with 50% from the terminalista group Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) of Hong Kong, with 40% from the shipowning group taiwanese Evergreen and with 10% from the Italian group Maneschi, on whose docks from three months do not arrive more container and that currently it does not have perspectives of acquisition of traffic since the same Evergreen group has recently decided to instead connect the port of the Pireo with Bari that with the Jonian harbour port of call ( on 14 April 2015). In the course of the encounter ministers are analyzed also to the recent developments of the negotiation on the situation in existence to the terminal coordinated from the Presidency of the Council dci.

The Harbour Committee, with the single abstention of Giancarlo Russo, representative of the terminalisti and assistant manager of the TCT, has confirmed own total availability regarding every stiff initiative to safeguard the occupational levels let alone to create and to stimulate I throw again and the competitiveness of the terminal containers, on condition that a development plan adapted to local, regional, national and communitarian the expectations is guaranteed of strategicità of the port of Taranto, as in more occasions and more contexts evidenced from the same Italian government. Moreover the Harbour Committee has received the demand for the representatives of the workers to propose the extract of the procedure of renews of the wider extraordinary redundancy fund from that relative one to the total management of the terminal.

The Harbour Committee, in spite of the sharing of the minutes by all the representatives of the local authorities, has asked also to invite president of the Region Puglia, the mayor of the Municipality of Taranto and the president of the Province of Taranto to the subscription of a note who you bring back the determination assumed from the Committee in order to support and ulteriorly to strengthen the acts dcl same Committee.

At last, on proposal of the mayor of Taranto and with abstention of Russian, the Harbour Committee has deliberated to proceed to the acquisition of a legal opinion on the possible effects of the current situation on the concessorio relationship with TCT Spa.