FIT CISL Calabria exhorts to define a distance in order to assure a future of increase to the port of Gioia Tauro



FIT CISL Calabria exhorts the local and national institutions to define a distance in order to assure a future of increase to the port of Gioia Tauro, port of call that must be confronted with strong competitors in the basin of the Mediterranean. "From 1995 today - the general secretary of FIT CISL Calabria has remembered, Annibale Fiorenza - the harbour system and of the marine transport in the Mediterranean has grown in infrastructural terms and of new opportunities of and competitive production processes in the entire row of the transport. This has produced a strong competitiveness between the ports of the Mediterranean that has strongly penalized the three ports of transhipment Italian, Gioia Tauro, Cagliari and Taranto, orphans of political aiming of national support, so that Taranto has stopped every activity of transhipment. All this - it has found the representative of the labor organization - has happened in spite of the favorable geographic position of the Italian ports, between which, that of Gioia Tauro, it expresses competitive quantitative and qualitative abilities with potentialities still not expressed because of the decisional and implementing delays of the territorial, regional and national institutions. These, together with the persistent crisis of the international markets that is dragged from 2009, are the main causes that still today, at a distance of about twenty years from the start of the harbour activities, the port and still more, the retroportuale area of Gioia Tauro, remains bridled in the ford of a crisis that risks to exhaust every opportunity for a effective one takes off".

"It is on this content, of a synthetic and pragmatic analysis of the events succedutasi in last the five years - Fiorenza has explained - that we want to draw the attention. Worrisome events as a result of which, on 30 July, the federations of category of Cisl, Cgil, Uil and Ugl, to forehead also of the implementing delays of the Agreement of Program Picture of the 2010 and to the lacked provisions competence of the three national governments succedutisi from 2010 today, have undersigned responsibly the third "minutes of agreement for another year of Cigs". A necessary agreement that, for had the short memory, it is served and it serves to avoid the phantom of the lay-offs of the staff in esubero. Agreement minutes that answer to the priority knowledge to guarantee the working continuity for all the workers. Agreement minutes undersigned also in the light of started concrete actions from the new regional government, to leave, from the economic resources (about 4,5 million euros) that, united with 3,5 million euros put from the Harbour Authority, they will allow to pull down the ill-famed "anchor duties" one of the atavistic elements you distorted you that they stop the competitiveness of the port and therefore the increase of the volumes in entrance and escape from the terminal of Gioia Tauro. These and other engagements that pass from the institution of a specific councillorship, to the positive one to evolve of the announced investment of "Lcv Capital Management" for the assemblage and the distribution of motors vehicle, to the elaboration of Bill in parliament dawning "on the ZES", accompanied from the due attentions towards the contents and the opportunities that can gush from new "the Slowly National one of the Ports and the Logistics" - have observed the general secretary of FIT CISL Calabria - they induce to us to pursue on the road of a constructive confidence".

"A confidence - it has continued Fiorenza - that we extend also to the MSC Spa and the new orders of the constituted terminalista society to 50%, from MCT Spa and MSC Spa, subjects with strong identities in the international panorama that, until contrary test, continues to demonstrate interest for the port of Gioia Tauro. They - it has specified the trade-union representative - we ask a greater engagement in terms of investments and of increase for the volumes. They must in response also to the onerous engagement for the discouragement of the anchor duties and for all which will be gone to realize, beginning from the railway gateway and of the dry dock, for the implementation of the activities of integrated transport and maintenance of the ships and the containers refrigerator (reefer) that ulterior entirety can assure job 250 places and more in general terms favor the operating costs of the transport and navigation societies. The parts are calls to giving mutual action of their implementing will which, the union and Cisl in particular, will remain very attention and consequential. A not limitless confidence in the time but that it must find immediate replies from the institutional front and by enterprise MSC and MCT. above all in terms of increase of the volumes of the goods".

Fiorenza has specified that the union, moreover, shortly attends from the institutional source "the start of a profitable one confronts to regional level, propedeutico to the immediate resumption of specific "the national table" where - it has found - it is necessary to arrive to us strong of a solid unit of attempts without which, it would be risked to lose the umpteenth opportunity of increase and development that, the circumstances deliver to us, not only for the port of Gioia Tauro but for all the Calabria. It is necessary to make it soon - it has emphasized Fiorenza - it is in order to affect the contents of the new "Law of national Stability" and is of the new one "Slowly of the Portualità and the Integrated Logistics"".

Hoping that from the preannounced encounter of the president of the Calabria Region, Mario Oliverio, with the minister to Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Del Rio, you set off a positive interlocuzione, Fiorenza has evidenced that the union is ready "to share the construction of actions, strong and unitary, against every attempt to delay the performance of all this that - it has remembered - we claim from long time".