the mayor of Genoa wishes a vision of system of the national policies of investment for the ports



This afternoon the mayor of Genoa, Marco Doria, in the course of the reunion of the consiliari commission Promotion of the city and Territory, has illustrated National the Strategic Plan of the Portualità and the Logistics. Explaining that "the harbour reform part from the acknowledgment of the strategicità of the harbour system in the within of the Italy system, in the Italian economy", and that "the system of the marine transports is crucial and previews a series of strategic actions", Doria has emphasized to share in full load "the fact that from Liguria harbour system and that genoese one must be able to manage increasing flows: Genoa - the mayor has stated - continues to having a central role, than them he is natural, as kilometer is distant 130 from Milan and little more from Turin. It is previewed, therefore, to tie the port to a system of connections, in order to return it more efficient: the goods must arrive and leave very quickly. The port is a ring of an intermodal logistic chain and must be seen, not in the optical of the terminals, but in that of the corridor of transport of the hinterland".

Doria has observed moreover that the hinterland of the genoese port "is not stopped to Apennines, but invests a macro area in the Po plain that, but, is served also by ports of the Europe North. With these - it has evidenced - we must compete and increase the basin of reference also to Switzerland and southern Germany".

"An other aspect - it has continued Doria - is "green port", that is the environmental sustainability that, if of Prà (the harbour area that accommodates the terminal for Voltri containers Europe Terminal, ndr), sostanzia doubling the railroads of the VTE, so as to increase in meaningful way the number of the container on track and to diminish, so, the number of the Tir that enter in the VTE".

Stopping itself on the topic of the governance, Doria has found that "coordination between the ports, means to coordinate politics of the investments. It is necessary therefore - it has added - a vision of system of the national policies of investment. The structure of the governance of the ports takes part of this strategic system and previews also the reform of the Harbour Committees. The president of the Authority - he has specified the mayor - will not be more a figure political, but managerial; he will be named by the government, that he will choose from white an appropriate one, and will be placed side by side by a Harbour Committee very more narrow. The reform project previews also the amalgamation of the Harbour Authorities, in Italy us of is too many; this matter much is discussed in National the Strategic Plan of the Portualità and the Logistics".

While today the dimissionario president of the Harbour Authority, Luigi Merlo, in sight of the imminent term of its fixed mandate for 11 November, has begun a series of encounters with the terminalisti of the port for an informal salute.

In the first day of visits, between the terminals of the basin of Sampierdarena, Merlon has met the summits and the work force of Sampierdarena Oils, Rebora Industries, Silomar and SECH. The president of the Harbour Authority has travelled over again with the several managers the main stages of its eight years to the summit of the agency and the operators have thanked it for the carried out job. The encounters will ollow for all the week.