Signed the agreement for the redundancy fund for the workers of the Taranto Container Terminal



Today to Rome, near the Ministry of the Job, the agreement for the redundancy fund for cessation of the staff of Taranto has been undersigned Container Terminal (TCT), the participated terminalista society from the groups Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Evergreen Marine Corporation and Maneschi that the terminal for containers of the port of Taranto managed, landing place in which the containerized trade it has been annulled, and that it is placed in liquidation in June enduring therefore the revocation of the state property concession with which it operated to the Polisettoriale Pier of the apulian port of call. The redundancy fund, that it will have the duration of a year, regards entire the organic one of 536 people of TCT.

The accorso it is signed by the undersecretary to the Job, Teresa Bellanova, from the unions, the Province of Taranto, the liquidators of the Taranto Container Terminal and from the Harbour Authority of Taranto.

Teresa Bellanova has express today "true satisfaction for the reached agreement, in the first place - he has specified the sottosegregario - in order to have protected the yield of 536 workers and then because the port of Taranto represents a fundamental asset, not only for the city and the Apulia, but for the entire Country". "In order to arrive to the agreement of Cigs reached today - it has continued Bellanova - necessary along and job, which lasted is taken care of months. From a part the people with their yield to risk, from the other a fundamental asset of the apulian economy, with the port of Taranto, that she risked to become a piece of economy of the uselessly lost South. The job that an important agreement as precedes that today does not make much noise, but the consequences of a negotiation that succeeds to avoid the lay-off of 536 people and that it puts the Harbour Authority in condition for engaging itself in order to make to share the economic life of the port has the sound of the South that moves, for the Italy that is getting back standing".

Satisfaction for the agreement, with which - it has remembered - the lay-off of the workers has been avoided, is expressed also by the general secretary of the Uiltrasporti, Claudio Tarlazzi, that it has emphasized as to the signature has been reached thanks to activism of the Ministry of the Job, first hand of the Bellanova undersecretary, the Harbour Authority, the Province of Taranto and thanks to the great sense of responsibility of the unions. "Now but - specified Tarlazzi - the port and the city of Taranto deserve, without procrastinations, a definitive solution that you carry operators and industrial projects of development in order to value the investments made in the harbour area and in order to assure to the workers the just perspective who deserve. The Uiltrasporti - it has concluded the representative of the union - as it will always make its part".