biennium 2015-2016 will be hardest for the port of Ravenna



. It has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority of the port of call, Galliano Di Marco, in occasion of the presentation of consuntivo budget 2014 of the agency, than this morning he is approved of unanimously by the Harbour Committee.

"2014 - it has remembered Of Marco - have been one of the better years in the history of the port of Ravenna. From a part an increase of the traffic of about 9% has been recorded - better turned out post crisis 2009 - than, added to +5% of 2013, marks in the past couple of years an increase of 14%. The consequent increase of the revenues with the entrances currents to beyond 23 million (+28%) - it has specified - has allowed with the agency to close 2014 with a annual operating result almost 22 million euros, graces also to the ulterior reduction of running expenses (- 11%)". The primary remainder of administration, has reached to end 2014 about 52 million euros, of which 45 currently destined to the Harbour Project Hub of Ravenna.

Of Marco it has found that, besides positive economic results, 2014 have been the better year in the history of the Freeways of the Sea to Ravenna (+ 39.8%), with the terminal you ferry clearly in profit after almost 20 years of losses (and the result would have been still better if the line were not interrupted to september because of the incident happened in Greece to another Grimaldi ferry that has been substitute own with the ship employed to Ravenna) and the creation of beyond fifty new places of work. Instead the decrease in the field of the cruises (regarding 2013 -54% of passengers and -47% in the number is continued of touched of ships to the terminal of Porto Corsini), for which - it has specified - it will be necessary see again the strategy of the business plan of 2010, also in the light of that it will happen to Venice.

Very positive, moreover, the course of the railway traffic, modality through which is enlivened about 15%, of the marine total traffic of the port, to clearly of the liquid bulk. Draft of the absolute value more high one from 2008, with a meaningful increment (+49%) regarding 2013.

The president of the Harbour Authority has remembered that, moreover, in the course of 2014 he is introduced to the competent agencies, also between thousand technical difficulties, lawyers, administrative and procedural, the definitive project of the Hub Harbour of Ravenna: "draft - it has specified Of Marco - of a complex project that we hope can be seen the light as soon as possible also in order to collect yields of beyond two years of intense job".

But - it has continued Of Marco - "against many positive news, we cannot ignore that biennium 2015-2016 will be hardest in order at least four reasons, all important and nobody to underrate: the decrease of the traffic in first trimester (- 5%), that year has confirmed our forecasts of beginning; the Freeways of the Sea that have by now saturated every space available in the area of our terminal Ferries and Cruises (T&C S.r.l.); the numberless problems created from the flood of beginning February, the first between all new sand fill of the outer harbor, whose resolving times, this time, will not be short. But - it has added Of Marco - it is the fourth reason, for us, the more important and now imposes to complete precise choices: in absence of the Project Hub and with the current situation of the cases of overwhelmed, also to light of the provisions assumed from the Public Prosecutor's Office of Ravenna, the Harbour Authority is found in the difficulty to proceed regularly in the distance that would have it capacity to the start of the work of the Hub and to the realization of the project in the established times and, therefore, in the necessity to supply to the dredging of the port through new and immediate solutions, that they are already under deepening, with all the limitations of the case that such solutions will involve. In next the two or three months we will work in order to set up such solutions that we will discuss before within the Harbour Committee and then with the local institutions and the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports and on they we will invest also all, if necessary, our remainder of administration. Now - it has concluded Of Marco - it is the moment to think more to the salvation of the port than to its future development".