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Undersigned I renew for 60 years of the concession of Pier VII of the port of Trieste to the TMT
Maneschi: Trieste is the only port of Italy that can grow because five million containers are a market of about to which we can participate
December 16, 2015
I renew for an ulterior duration 60-year-old of the concession to the Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) of the Pier Seventh of the port of Trieste, that it is deliberated to half 2014 from the Harbour Committee of the giuliano port of call and that last April has obtained the green light of the EU commission ( on July 29, 2014 and 24 April 2015), Friuli Venice Julia is introduced today near the Region, with the president of the agency, Debora Serracchiani, that great satisfaction" for the subscription of the action has express ". "Draft - it has emphasized Serracchiani - of a private one that is investing once again on the port of Trieste and this investment is accompanied to public resources, between which 50 million euros on the railway part of Marzio Field that they will afford to infrastructures of the port of Trieste to make a true quality jump indeed".
The concession is signed 1°th December by the Harbour Authority of Trieste. The extraordinary commissioner of the harbour authority, Zeno D' Augustin, has remembered that by TMT there is the engagement to an investment "pairs to 188 million euros, of which a first tranche of 100 million has a precise one cronoprogramma". The president of TMT, Fabrizio Zerbini, has illustrated the private participations that accompany to the sixty-year concession of the terminal containers of Trieste, whose traffics grow systematically from 2003 (except 2009): the first step is the lengthening of 100 meters for 400 meters of width of the dock side South, that it boasts the greater draught of the Mediterranean (18 meters), so as to afford the contemporary mooring of two ships from 14 thousand teu; according to step aerobic it previews an ulterior lengthening of 100 meters for 400 meters of width, while others 100 meters of length are previewed in the third phase, more 20 meters in width, in order to allow the mooring of ships feeder. At the same time ulterior participations regard the cranes and other infrastructures. The preliminary matters of the work, that they will have operating beginning in the first months of 2017 for being completed within the end of 2018, already are begun with the boreholes and the discouragements of some warehouses and a ramp.
According to Pierluigi Maneschi, president of Marine Italy and shareholder of reference of T.O. Delta, controlling society TMT that recently is placed side by side in the social compages from shipowning group MSC ( on 16 September 2015), the port of Trieste must value the clearance procedures and not be limited to be transit port of call, but - it has emphasized - it is "the only port of Italy that can grow because five million containers are a market of about to which we can participate, and this would mean give job to another 1.000 people".
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