the Apulia will be center of two Authority of harbour system



After the next introduction of the new legislation in matter of ports . It has assured the mayor of Bari, Antonio Decaro, according to an informal confirmation obtained the holder of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio. The first citizen of Bari has explained to have by telephone felt yesterday the minister, which - he has explained - "has authorized me to confirm how much had already anticipated two weeks in a press conference to Taranto: the criterion that will be used in order to choose the centers of the system of the Harbour Authorities is that of the ports "Core", and therefore the Apulia, that it has the particularitity of having two, and that it has clearly expressed from the territories the will to maintain the specificities existing, will be able to see independently recognized the Harbour Authorities of Bari and Taranto from the characteristics of administrative nature of the regional border".

Decaro has remembered the reasons, not certainly parochial - it has emphasized - for which from Bari community it has been lined up to defense of the maintenance in the city of the Harbour Authority: "we are considered by always - it has evidenced - the door towards the Balkan peninsula and the Middle East; ours it is a polyvalent port of call: we have docks to the service of the ferries ro pax for connections is with Greece and Croatia is with destinations that are outside Schengen, Albania and Montenegro; we have a crocieristico traffic that in 2014 has recorded million 700 thousand fleeting; a traffic goods grown in the 2014 year of about 10% regarding the year precedence, reaching the million figure five annual tons; our port is almost saturates, in the sense that in the years is made a overtime that it has carried to us to not only realize great infrastructures but also to exercise an increasing ability to attraction of goods and passengers; without to forget that another element to our favor is represented by the lines ro-ro that from the 2015 they connect Bari to the ports of Venice, Ravenna and Patrasso with trisettimanale frequency".

"Bari - it has continued the mayor - is one of the Core ports of European net TEN T, and it is already from before it became the port of Taranto. Regarding the city of Taranto we have various requirements, various traffics and various seas: for this our ports are not in competition, and the very protocol comes that has been undersigned some day makes, own to Taranto, for a greater collaboration between the apulian ports. We are ready to collaborate. I hope indeed that protocol can be extensive to other southern truths".

Decaro has announced that in this optical it will ask the mayor for Brindisi "an encounter in order to share with conviction a distance of development in the within of the new strategic picture of the portualità and the logistics".

"A specificity of the port of Bari respect to others - it has concluded Decaro - is own the being polyvalent port of call, together with the fact to be managed in autonomy from the Harbour Authority. It is not possible to think to manage the operativity of a port of these dimensions and with this complexity being had the center of the Authority of harbour system in another city".