Still uncertain the future of Taranto Container Terminal



The ball is in the hands of Taranto Container Terminal (TCT), the society participated from the groups Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Evergreen Marine Corporation and Maneschi that the container manages terminals of the port of Taranto, dock in deep crisis that is declassed by potential head physician hub of transhipment of the Mediterranean to port of call to out of the routes of the fleets of the companies of the line field that do not make you more to land portacontainer oceanic and not even ships feeder. A dramatic situation of difficulty that involves the 540 workers of the terminal, than from some day has assisted to expiring of the period of redundancy fund.

Yesterday to Palazzo Chigi a new reunion has been carried out on the state of crisis of the terminal containers to which they have participated for the government the undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council, Claudio De Vincenti, the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, and the undersecretary to the Job, Teresa Bellanova, the representatives of the local institutions of Taranto, with to the head mayor Ippazio Stefàno and the president of the Harbour Authority, Sergio Prete, and the delegates of the national and territorial labor organizations of category.

The ball is in the hands of TCT because, concluded the reunion, it is informed that, in short, the society will have to communicate its intentions: that is if to respect the terms of the which signed agreement ago three weeks ( of 11 May 2015) or if to decide for the abandonment of the terminal. In the encounter yesterday the government has restated "the strategicità of the port of Taranto and its terminal", port of call - he has evidenced the executive - that "he represents a priority for the Country and Europe, in the picture of the so-called Corridor North-South". Government, recalling TCT "to the maximum sense of responsibility", own engagement has restated "to operate in order to maintain open the productive and occupational perspectives of the terminal and to at best protect the 540 workers interested from the dispute".

But, to beyond the intentions, the situation is in fact frozen anchor for some days, those granted to TCT in order to decide where to address the ball and to report it to the representatives of the government, the institutions of Taranto and the unions in a new next the 17 encounter that would have to carry out june.