Encounter in Calabria Region on the port of Gioia Tauro in sight of the trade-union manifestation of friday



Yesterday the president of the Region Calabria, Mario Oliverio, has met the representatives of the confederal labor organizations that have organized for next friday to Gioia Tauro the unitary manifestation "We are believed! ", that it has been indetta from Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti and Ugl Sea for the development of the port. Emphasizing that it is not more possible to attend ulterior delays, the unions have asked "the performance for the indispensable measures in order to invert the process of serious difficulty of all the harbour area. In order to make it - they have specified - they serve: immediate participations in order to attract goods and investments finalized to I throw again of the port, the industrial area and to the development of the entire territory; the activation of the project "gateway", an intermodal terminal ship/iron/rubber in order not to make to exclusively remain the single port and transhipment; the institution of the ZES, the discouragement of the anchor duties, the relative reduction of the octrois on fuels and energy, cost reduction to the concessions for the companies in crisis (necessary participations for the competitiveness of the site and the harbour air), the maintenance of the current occupational levels in the productive units to the aim to avoid transfers in other truths".

In the course of the reunion yesterday, to which they have participated between the others the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Davide Barbagiovanni Minciullo, and the regional city council member to the System of the logistics, regional harbour system and arranges Gioia Tauro, Francesco Russo, Oliverio, assuring the presence of the Region to the friday manifestation, has remembered that the Region has always declared the strategic character that covers the harbour infrastructure, "a character - has emphasized - that is such not only for the Calabria but for Italy".

"Sul port, on its I throw again, on its development - it has added the president of the Region - we are giving to body to a new and effective attention and started a strong interlocuzione with the government. Gioia Tauro is in fact the heart of an institutional understanding, for which the Region has advanced precise proposals. In fact we have asked to act on the depositor of the fiscality, in order to return the port of Gioia Tauro regarding the other ports of the Mediterranean competitive, and have advanced the proposal of institution of the ZES, compatible with the regime of aids. In the understanding, still, we have placed the strengthening of the railway connection: railway gateways, shapes, length train. Proposals all, these, that they have the interest by the minister. Meanwhile - it has continued Oliverio - we have made choices, considering resources, in order to act on the anchor duty. Other objectives on which we are working are the not secondary aspect, dry dock, are from the point of view of the occupation that of the strengthening of the attractive ability, and the valorization of the retroporto. In this direction, and that of the start of industrial politics around the infrastructure, we have worked for a full bodied investment in the field of the automotive, arriving to the subscription of a protocol of understanding with the Ministry of the Economy, the Region Puglia and Invitalia that will carry to the production of car to Gioia Tauro. Particular attention is given to the development of the agricultural and food- one so that, together with the platform of the cold, it can constitute propulsive field to the peculiar characteristics is of the Calabria that of the international port of Gioia Tauro. Important resources - it has concluded the president of the Calabria Region - are at last in argument to be worth on the PON that will be introduced in its main structure on 6 November to Naples".