The marine-harbour operators of denounce the delays of the work of expansion of the port of from Liguria city



The marine-harbour operators spezzini denounce that "the work of expansion of the port of La Spezia travels medium with a delay comprised between the three and in five years regarding the previewed schedule" in the future emphasizes It Andrea Fontana on behalf of community the harbour reunited spezzina Spezia Port Service, society recently constituted by the Association of the Shippers of the Port of and by the Association of the Doganalisti of, and the Association Shipping agents La Spezia who preside.

"Unfortunately - Fontana explains - between rest resources and, the result is daunting: overlapping the map of the port from 30 year ago with that current one, it was not for I rearrange of the Garibaldi pier, would have to be stated that nothing is not changed".

"La Spezia - Fontana remembers - has represented for efficiency and productivity, let alone for organizational ability and of innovation also of its private operators, a splendid exception in the national panorama. But - it adds - bureaucracy, resources and delays are producing incolmabili damages".

"It is true - Fontana continues - that of the uncontrolled expansion of the times of realization of new infrastructures is a common and sadly famous phenomenon to all the greater marine ports of call of the country. But for us operators, for us shipping agents, in this precise moment of market characterized from strong changes, not to be able to supply to the shipowners and the international companies sure answers risk translate themselves in a real suicide".

La Spezia Port Service has listed the main work in the port of whose performance anticipates delays. "For a series of problems of organizational type - the society specifies - still the work of filling and widening of the terminal has not left Tarros-Yards of the Gulf; work and investments on the base of which a fourty-year concession is assigned. The contest for beginning work does not turn out to be announced publicly and the term of the work is time previewed for 2019"; moreover "the widening towards East of La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) presupposes the transfer and the radication of navy (more the note is that of the Narrow channel) in the site of Pagliari Pier. Also in this case, in most optimistic of the hypotheses, the Pagliari Pier will not be ready, in order to receive the users of two navy with which the Harbour Authority has laboriously after years found an understanding, before two or three years. And only then it will be possible to begin the work of widening of the terminal"; about Pier Garibaldi, La Spezia Port Service it remembers that "the recent agreement between Harbour Authority with LSCT, that it previews the widening of the Garibaldi Pier in order to gain two approaches for container vessels and that in theory it would not have to find oppositions and delays, as realized in great part from the same LSCT with deep own and without to move some activity, has already caused to a resource to the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT by a baby association enviromentalist to testimony that are forces that are opposed to any widening of the port "to prescind"; at last, "the State Audit Court, to surprise - La Spezia Port Service remembers - has rejected and frozen the financing of 39 million euros for the restructure and the potenziamento of the railway systems in port on which the Cipe had been expressed positively. Work that had to allow to form trains from 650 meters against the current convoys from 400 meters of length".

"The responsibilities - Fontana clarifies - are not from searching themselves in particular in or more subjects, but in the system of our Country that is not more in a position to supplying sure times in the programming of the works affording an excess to be able of veto to chicchessia. It is a system that does not work more and that it has incompatible times with those of a market and a shipping that expects fast answers and those certainties that we are able to not to give to nobody".