Porto Torres is lined up to defense of its Harbour Authority



In attended that the Italian government is decided to introduce many times over announced decrees on the ports, than - to two years from the declaration of wanting to supply as soon as possible to the reform of the legislation in harbour matter - it is not still clear if it will be limited to the governance of the ports of call or will include norms for ordering their operativity, in these various weeks representations of categories and local authorities - as already in the past - they are specifying the executive because the conduction of the ports of they pertinence would not have to be entrusted to regional or sovraregionali harbour authorities constituted as a result of the amalgamation or of the abolition of the Harbour Authorities that currently manage these ports of call.

Between the numerous local institutions that have manifested own contrarietà regarding such fusions or cancellations of harbour agencies is the Municipality of Porto Torres, than with deliberation of the Council it has asked the Sardinia Region to take part near the national government so that in Sardinia the maintenance of two Harbour Authorities is guaranteed, that is that of Cagliari and that of the Sardinia North (that it has center to Porto Torres), as "the Sardinia, for its intrinsic and undeniable peculiarities of insularity - law in the deliberation of the Town council - has very various harbour and logistic requirements from the remainder of Italy. Therefore - the approved of deliberation emphasizes unanimously - the national plan mainly aimed to bring back in Italy the diverted traffics from the North Europe, that it stretches to reduce the number of Harbour Authorities, badly is adapted to its requirements". The document evidences that Porto Torres "is the natural port of the second which peopled and industrialized area more of the Sardinia".

Moreover the deliberation rimarca that on the nomination of the presidents of the Harbour Authorities "it goes previewed the compartecipazione of the local authorities and the understanding with the Regions" and that, "with reference to the governance, must be maintained the role of the Harbour Committee and, to its inside, guaranteed in weighted way the role of the mayor of not metropolitan the harbour cities also, as only organ of expression directed from the entire local community, to the aim to favor the participation of the local authorities, the institutional subjects and the harbour operators".

At last the Town council asks also "to for staff characterize precise norms of guarantee employee of the Harbour Authorities accorpate or to suppress".