Nogarin: if not there will be the involvement of the Municipalities in the new system of governance of the ports we will take severe provisions



"The which set foot in harbour reform from the government goes in the wrong direction. If not there will be a turnabout, with a greater involvement of the Municipalities, we will be forced to take severe provisions". Filippo Nogarin, mayor of Livorno and president of the Commission Harbour Città of ANCI has asserted today (National Association Common Italians), participating to 70th the assembly anniversary of Confetra to Rome where the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports was present also, Graziano Delrio.

"The reform - Nogarin has denounced - will provoke to a marked split between port and city: the summits of the Authorities, than currently are chosen from the Ministry together with Region, interested Common Provinces and categories, will be appanage only of the Ministry of Infrastructures and of the Transports and the E regions this it is not permissible. Already today the Authorities are independent organisms ce operate without to return account to the mayors minimally. But it is well to remember to that their decisions have then fallen back directed on the cities and the occupation".

"To Livorno - it has continued Nogarin - we have had recently an outright example, with the Harbour Authority that from today into the future has decided to close a parking from 120 places that was used, to payment, mostly from the livornesi. As ANCI, a year it makes - it has remembered - we had asked that a harbour tax was introduced on disembarks, on falsariga of that which already is previewed in the airport cities. This proposal has not found space in the stability law, but if not there will be corrective to the reform of the ports, to Livorno we could estimate the possibility to impose custom offices on the goods and the passengers in income to the port".

Replying to the president of the Region Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, than yesterday to Livorno, in the course of the conclusions of the convention dedicated to the portualità and its organized future from the association of the shipping agents Asamar, it had emphasized that "also to the portualità Tuscany it must be allowed to play own game, that it is that of the competitiveness of own ports of call" and - finding that the portualità Tuscany perhaps discounts some delay - had supported that "the municipalismo has represented a brake", the mayor of Livorno has beaten again that "Rossi mistakes itself of large. Livorno - Nogarin has emphasized - has been able to only benefit of the loan guaranteed from the flat Junker through the European Bank in reason of the occupational emergency that is recorded in the city. It is not possible that as Common must daily be got to terms with this social emergency, but right to vote on the future of a system, that harbour one cannot be had, that it could represent the main solution to the drama of the livornesi unemployed people".

While, in order to tackle to an economic emergency, today the regional committee of the Tuscany has approved of a protocol of understanding between the Region, the Harbour Authority of Livorno and the Society Interporto Amerigo Vespucci that a package of financial participations in order to re-balance the economic picture and of the interportuale society of Guasticce with the scope previews to allow them to reach the objectives previewed from the industrial plan. The deliberation allows the participation of the Region with the maneuver financial institution that has the objective of giving stability to the society in a decennial arc.

The first action previewed from the protocol regards the technical delay of the granted guarantee fideiussori in 2005 until a maximum of 18 million euros, traslando the expiration of the debit, of decennial duration, at the end of 2022. Such delay will be demanded by the committee to the regional council through a modification to the financial law of 2016. In the text two engagements by the Harbour Authority of Livorno are previewed also: first of all the engagement to propose to the Harbour Committee the subscription of an increase of capital of beyond 6, 5 million euros (proceeds from the sale of the quotas the Authority in the society Porto 2000), then the start of the procedures of law in order to acquire a land of 50.000 square metres of property of the Interporto society, with a edificabilità of 50% to use warehouses to the value indicated from the agency of the Federal property (estimated four million euro). The Interporto society in its turn is engaged to introduce an industrial plan and of restructure of the debit updated regarding these proposals, consulting the bank system on this new picture, whose sharing is fundamental condition for the good outcome of the operation.

"When the government is concluding the reform of the portualità - he has observed the regional city council member to Infrastructures, Vincenzo Ceccarelli - the Tuscany intends to make himself to find to the challenge of the competitiveness of own ports of call and the harbour structures back ready, as that of the Interporto di Guasticce. The increasing synergy between Harbour Authority of Livorno and Interporto with the participations of the Region for the potenziamento of the port and the investments in railway infrastructures to service of the port and of connection port-interporto - it has concluded the city council member - will be determining also for the success of the next Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Northerner".