Count (To propel Taras Club) proposes to transform the terminal containers of Taranto in a distripark



To transform the container terminal to the Polisettoriale Pier of the port of Taranto in a distripark. It has proposed president of the The International Propeller Club Port of Taras, Michele Conte, stating that "until three years ago the port of Taranto was numbered between the hub of transhipment of the Mediterranean as second of Italy after Gioia Tauro" and that "today is disappeared from lists and statistics say that continues to lose traffic".

The dramatic hemorrhage of containerized trade that is in existence during the last few years in the apulian port and that it has determined the zero setting of the activity to the Polisettoriale Pier carried out from the terminalita society Taranto Container Terminal (groups Hutchison Port Holdings - Evergreen - Maneschi) is evidenced by the diagram to flank. According to Count, "it is not more time than to look behind, to look for faults (of people or system) or to attend that someone, from who knows where, places remedy to our inabilities, except then saying that the evils of our territory derive from choices made not to Taranto. It would be the case - for president of Propeller Club - than the collectivity was interrogated, with urgency, on what to make, which choices to operate, because the Polisettoriale Pier, the last great work realized for the force, the being worth tenacity and ability to one of the last politicians of Taranto, the member of parliament Mazzarino, newly do not remain an area of pause for the buen retiro of the gulls, after many money spold for new works, perhaps not all indispensable also in case realized profits and".

Evidencing the just worries in order to at home carry the redundancy fund for the workers of Taranto Container Terminal, Count has specified that this "cannot be enough. Jointly - it has found - it must think to what of making, because it cannot be lived of redundancy fund and because a so important patrimony cannot return to being a cathedral in the desert as it has been about to 20 years before its transformation in terminal containers. Neither - it has added - the decisions of Evergreen can be still waited for".

To warning of president of Propeller Club of Taranto, the port of the apulian city cannot more entrust own risen ones to the traffic of transhipment of the container that - it has observed - "by now in the Mediterranean is appanage of the new ports of the Africa North, Spain, Greece, Egypt and of Malta that - he has emphasized - quite Gioia Tauro lays a trap who is hardly able to hold of competition although MSC and Maerks". For Count, "the transfer of the containers from ship mother to ship feeder, still necessary, in Italy is not more strategic, not wage boarding taxes and disembarkation, for which, to clearly of the occupation, it does not produce other returns. If the occupation is questioned also, as it seems that it is truly - has evidenced - it is more not even useful". Moreover - it has continued - "the distripark thought, that it could constitute the added value to the simple transfer, it is failed for inability of the territory".

"For these reasons - it has explained - I propose with force to take the courage to two hands and to decide to transform the terminal containers in a distripark endoportuale, with the possibility to transform in ZES (Zone to Special Economy), even proposing to the Hatchinson, shareholder of majority of the Taranto Container Terminal, to assume of the responsibility and to manage it, conserving the staff employee, increasing it as the distripark it is developed".

"In the port of Barcelona - it has remembered Count - the distripark endoportuale, been born on a surface of single 700 thousand square metres, it has generated 4,000 very occupied more directed those induced. Rather than to remain unarmed and at the end to ask only redundancy fund, even if sacrosanct for the families of the dependent - it has concluded president of Propeller Club - there is who feels himself in a position to producing to new and various hypotheses of development for the terminal"