With the contest for the confidence of the services of towing in the port of Trieste saved million euro



The Harbour office of Trieste has entrusted the exercise of the service of towing in the port and the oadstead of the giuliano port of call to the Tripmare, joint venture controlled from Gesmar Spa (in its turn controlled from the Vitiello family and genoese the Tugs Reunited of Gavarone and Delle Piane) and Ocean Srl (Cattaruzza). Tripmare, that it was already previously concessionary of the services of towing in the port of Trieste, has been the only society to have introduced offered binding. The contract has a duration 15-year-old and the amount of annual award is of 13,85 million euros.

Remembering that the contest was announced publicly last April after the indications of the so-called "Caliendo circular" that they established the necessity to entrust the service of harbor tug through ban of European public contest, Reunited Tugs it has specified that "the value of the contract was estimated, projecting the medium turnover totaled in the past couple of years from the same Tripmare (16,2 million euros annual), in 243,2 million euros total", while the final value total of the contract has been attested to 207 million euros for the 15 contract years. "Be a matter itself of a closed contest - Alberto Delle Piane, managing director of Tripmare and director of the group has explained Reunited Tugs - we have not had until fine the no information on the effective presence of others offerers, but we knew of the interest of Svitzer". Reunited tugs in fact have specified that the procedure of triestine contest had attracted the attention of a great international player, the Svitzer Danish of group A.P. Møller-Mærsk, that an own manifestation of interest had undersigned except then deciding not to continue with the next phases of the ban, that is with the binding offer. "It is obvious - Delle Piane has asserted - that in order to compete with the more active world-wide large group in the harbor tug we have gone to any length in order to define an attractive offer from the economic point of view and qualitatively elevated from the point of view of the service offered, that among other things he previews, as demanded, the insertion of ulterior means regarding the number of currently active tugs". Delle Piane has remembered that, just in sight of a future contest for I renew of the concession, in the past few months Tripmare had taken in delivery the new tug of Turkish construction Centurion, binoculars of the already operating Gladiator.

"In order now - it has continued Delle Piane - the fleet is adapted to the fixed standards from the ban, but with the time the age meditates will increase and become necessary to replace means dated with new constructions: to half concession, between about seven years, an investment in such sense will become necessary sure". Reunited tugs have evidenced that "the technical aspect turns out of particular relief since, as established from the contest ban, the appraisal of the offers was only based for 25% on the economic offer more convenient, and for remaining 75% on the respect of fixed technical requirement and of service from the Marine Authority".

Manifesting satisfaction for the result reached in the first contest for the service of towing in a port of national importance, Delle Piane has observed that the notices publics "sure are just and necessary", but - he has added - "will put the Italian shipowners of the field in front of challenges until now never neither assumed. It will not be certainly easy - he has found - to compete with colossus as Svitzer, in a position to benefitting of economies of scale that for a group as ours, even though of considerable dimensions in Mediterranean within, are unthinkable".

According to the genoese shipowner it is necessary therefore "to head at the quality of the service that - it has emphasized Delle Piane - we are able to still supply graces to a modern and structured management but of familiar matrix, that it sees the associates (Cattaruzza, Vitiello, Delle Piane and Gavarone) engaged directly in the daily operativity together with management. An involvement and a participation to the social events that in a corporation total would be difficult to find again".

"During 2016 - it has concluded Delle Piane - procedures for the confidence of the service of towing in some of the main ports of the Country would have to be opened, and obviously we are disposed to estimate them and eventually to participate. The objective is that to increase our presence also to ports of call in today does not operate with no society of the group".