rear admiral Pettorino commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Genoa. Delrio woos Merlon


This morning to the 13,00 to Saint George Palace, center of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, was all - or almost - to greeting Luigi Merlo, president of the agency that lascerà the assignment little more two-month-old from the expiration of its sent second having decided to confirm introduced resignation upon request some months ago and then placed in a drawer of the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, in order to avoid the commissariamento of the port of from Liguria chief town.

Commissariamento that however are not avoided and function that is assigned to the current commander of the Harbour office of Genoa and marine director of the Liguria, rear admiral Giovanni Pettorino, like confirmed from same minister joined Delrio today to Saint George Palace in order to participate to the assembly of Genoa Confindustria on the topic "#genovadoveandiamo. The reasons in order to come, the reasons in order to remain" and for a salute to Luigi Merlo.

Leave that Delrio wants to transform in a grip of welcome hand. Emphasizing that in its ministry there is need of competent people, the minister has confirmed that he is "wooing" Merlon "for having it to the ministry". Proposal that, is voiced for a long time, minister-I dress endocrinologist would think from months and of which Merlon - always second the same voices - it would be already to the current and that would have the intention of accept. Why then this wait?

an answer could today it have supplied the same Delrio assuring that the legislative reform in harbour matter is already ready and that is to setting up of decrees implementing. Many of these voices, in fact, suggest that to Merlon a role would be guaranteed of first in an organism created from the new normative picture and others assure that in its future one would be a assignment of first floor to the summit of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports.

However is a new legislation attended with eagerness from Merlon. A reform that the dimissionario president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa confides will make clarity on the relationship between private public and in harbour within, a field - it has emphasized today - "in which wonders the president of the Harbour Authority to make is from arbitrator that from trainer" and that it suffers from a contradiction "that - it has explained - is yields of a history", when "they dominated to concertazione and consociationalism". According to Merlon, a new legislation is necessary also because the scene is changed: "the season of the portualità in increase is ended"; "by the 2009 - it has specified - world it is changed" and such will remain in future: "the market - it has observed - will be in ferment for along time".

For Merlon, although collapse of the social and political order in almost the totality of the nations put forward on the southern side of the Mediterranean basin and the dramatic escalation of violence that characterizes those regions, the opportunities of development for the port of Genoa and the Italian portualità in general terms finds own in the Mediterranean, Africa and Middle East.

In its salute to the harbour community Merlon has thanked three people key in the events of its life. In the first place the former senator Christian Democrat and regional councilman from Liguria Luciano Faraguti under whose wing Merlon has covered the first stages of its political career in the Christian Democratic Party and the first steps in institutional roles in the communal administration of native-born La Spezia. According to thanks to pidiessino Claudio Burlando, president of the Liguria Region, that he has chosen Merlon like regional city council member to the Ports, you transport, infrastructures and logistics, assignment that in 2010 then are passed to wife Raffaella Paita, to which is turned the third thanks. Merlon had announced that it would have resigned resignation from president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa if the wife had won the elections being itself candidated to the presidency of the Liguria Region. From the electoral round it has exited it win Giovanni Toti, whom candidated from Forza Italia with the support of the Alloy North. Resignation that Merlon has confirmed in spite of the defeat of wife procured from an internal vendetta to the Party genoese Democratico and mirror of the infighting that travaglia the national PD, decision to which is induced - it has asserted - because of dissents with the action of the new from Liguria regional committee.

Now Delrio, that it has common political roots to Merlon being journeyed in the Daisy and the Popular Party in order to meet in the 2007 in the Party Democratic, wants the ministry where it will perhaps land parting behind the experience to the guide of the port of Genoa and the conquests - by same he listed - obtained under its two which lasted mandates almost eight years.

Everyone has an opinion on the conduction of the genoese port exercised by Merlon. With reason they have pointed out us that during the last few years of its presidency our newspaper has many times over manifested perplexity on the steps ahead completed from the harbour port of call under its guide. We do not consider our judgment at all excessive. If not that to say of the repeated declarations of these days of Merlon: when I have arrived - it has restated today - "the port of Genoa was defined the Gaza strip". Before he, the deluge?

Bruno Bellio