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The property of Siremar passes to Society Sicilian Navigation (Ustica Lines and Charon & Tourist)
the company guided from Morace will manage the field hydrofoils, while that directing from Repaci and Franza will operate the ferries
April 12, 2016
Yesterday the cession of the company of Siremar navigation is formalized to the Society Sicilian Navigation Spa (SNS), joint venture joint participated from the marine companies Ustica Lines and Charon & Tourist that have confirmed the maintenance of the services and the activities realized from the Siremar are for the fleet of ferries that for that of fast means let alone the maintenance of the entire staff of the navigation company. In recent days the managing director of Ustica Lines, Ettore Morace, had preannounced that the value of the transaction piles to about 55,1 million euros.
The activity of Siremar in the field of the ferry boats will be managed by Charon & Tourist and the presidency and the vice-presidency will be entrusted respective to Antonino Repaci and Vincenzo Franza, managing directors of Charon & Tourist, while the managing director charge will be assigned to Luigi Genghi, general manager of Charon & Tourist. The field hydrofoils instead will be managed by Ustica Lines and will be presided by Ettore Morace.
Up to now the Siremar was managed by the Company of the Islands (CdI), society to which in 2011 it was yielded in the picture of the privatization of the companies of the Tirrenia group ( on 18 October 2011). To February of the 2015 Regional administrative court for the Latium it had received the resource proposed from Society Sicilian Navigation that, which participant to the procedure for the dismissione of the branch of company of the Siremar, had asked the ottemperanza for the sentence on June 7, 2012 of same the Regional Administrative Court of the Latium, confirmed in appeal with sentence of the Council of State on February 7, 2014, with which the final actions of the procedure were cancelled that they established the allocation of the Siremar to the Company of the Islands, company controlled from the Holding Mediterranean Spa of the shipowner Salvatore Lauro and participated from the Sicilian Region.
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