the economic-harbour community of Crotone expresses some observations on the preliminary rough draft of the Town development plan of the port



The Association of the "Harbour and Marine Operators" of Crotone, association recently constituted by a group of companies with the scope to support and to support the crotonese marineria and portualità, and others eight representative organizations of great part of woven the entrepreneurial premises have sent to the Province, the Municipality, the Harbour office and to the Chamber of Commerce of Crotone and to the Calabria Region some observations on the preliminary rough draft of Portuale Town development plan of the port of Crotone, document whose iter of definition it is started in 2009 and that the nine organizations wish can be carried quickly to term.

In the Harbour and Marine Operating letter the Association. REEDS Crotone, CNA Crotone, Confcommercio Crotone, Confesercenti Crotone, Confindustria Crotone, Legacoop Calabria, Italian Navy League - section of Crotone and Yachting Kroton Club, remembering that in a recent encounter between a delegation of operators of the port of Crotone and the summits of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, whose territorial administrative division is extended by the end of 2006 to the port of Crotone, is emerged the will of the harbour agency to proceed in narrow times to the approval of the PRP preliminary matter, specifies to consider that such engagement "is a positive data as well as an answer to the expectations of the world of the operators harbour that considers the adoption of such instrument of territorial planning urgent".

Before the contained observations in the letter sent to the agencies, that they are involved in the phase of approval of the harbour document of planning, it is relative to the guideline of the destined docks to the great ships and evidences which only "reasonable and realistic" hypothesis the realization "of docks that have a next guideline to the direction North-South", while instead - the nine organizations explain - "from the proposal of PRP of the 2012 the choice for an East-West guideline is found that, as evince from the relation supplied on May 23, 2014 from the technicians whom charged from the Harbour Authority for opportune simulations of maneuver, in some anemometriche conditions anticipate of the strong criticalities in terms of safety".

Moreover the economic-harbour organizations find exiguity of the spaces that the Portuale Town development plan assigns to the shipbuilding activities: "even though previewed a destined area to the shipbuilding activities - they find in the letter - to our opinion and on sollicitation of the directly interested operators, the classified spaces appear insufficient and not adequately structured. He would be favorable to increase at the same time superficial dedicated to yards, previewing suitable spaces of careening and raising to assign to the maintenance of great boats with the aid of systems of travellift and syncro lift attendant".

The letter is stopped also on the proposal of valorization of the Beach area of the Passes and on the proposal of the PRP that previews the positioning of two arms which opposed to the income of the East dock, in order protect it from the billowy motion, arms - the nine organizations observe - whose dimensions and positioning "would determine a strong limitation to the income of great boats (maxi yacht) that they could use the landing place for tourist or technical scopes because of the reduction of the useful spaces of maneuver".