a study evidences the economic and social advantages of the realization of a dry dock to Gioia Tauro



The realization of a dry dock in the port of Gioia Tauro would offer to luminosityen economic and social advantages, with consequent and an important fallen back occupational for the port of call. It evidences an appropriate study of realized feasibility after the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has approved of the variation to the Triennial Operations plan of works 2016-2018 necessary in order to realize the preliminary participations to the mass in work of the structure ( on 26 May 2016).

The study analyzes the potential question in order to estimate the number of ships that could choose Gioia Tauro for own operations of careening and preview that in 2021 to Gioia Tauro they could demand maintenance activity very 546 portacontainer, of which 241 with a advanced nominal ability to the 6,000 teu. The study finds that to forehead, then, of a calculated potential offer in 730 days working annual (365 in basin and 365 on the dock of I approach), the potential question will exceed the offer

Moreover the relation with the other ports competitor already equipped of pole of maintenance inside of the circuit of the Mediterranean is analyzed. Draft of the ports of Tuzla (Istanbul, Turkey), Izmir (Turkey) and Malta. Regarding Tuzla, the port of Gioia Tauro has turned out more competitive with an economic advantage pairs to about 228 thousand dollars for ships from 15.000 teu. Also regarding Izmir the calabrian harbour port of call turns out more favorable for a value that oscillate between 35 thousand dollars for ships of about 9.600 teu and 50 thousand dollars for portacontainer of 15.300 teu. Various it is, instead, the relationship with Malta that turns out more competitive regarding the calabrian port of call. In the specific one, in I confront with the Turkish ports Gioia Tauro turns out more barycentric on the Suez-Gibraltar route and this involves minors costs, is of fuel that of other operating costs. I confront with Malta, instead, denotes a smaller competitiveness of the calabrian, however inferior port, in absolute terms, regarding the advantage that Gioia Tauro has regarding Tuzla and Izmir. Regarding the port of Malta, Gioia Tauro anticipates a series of disadvantages of economic type, but a certain advantage anticipates also: to be a port hub, where it could be not only made transhipment.

Relatively to the economic-social analysis, economic the net present value, than measure the creation of total wealth of the project, has turned out to be pairs to 117 million euros, with an economic rate of return of 16.48%. Regarding, instead, the fallen back ones in occupational terms, the consequences have decidedly turned out positive: for the directed occupation, therefore that riferibile to the attache's of the careening structure, is assumed 271 units operatively, of which 260 between workers and technicians, employees in the support workshops and on board ship, and 11 assigned in the administrative offices; to this the estimated indirect occupation around 99 joins assigned. Considering moreover the occupation created from the investments that will be realized in harbour within, the occupational development potential generabile from the project assumes particularly important values, that report the occupational development, between direct and indirect, to 370 units.

Relatively to the investment financial and the relative times of realization, the forecasts of the Triennial Operations plan indicate, in the earlier stage, the realization of the extension north of the dock of West (drawn G) and the purchase of the floating dry dock, and, at last, the construction of an internal cradle where to arrange the basin in definitive way. The forecast of expense, calculated in three years and therefore to concluded operation, indicates a total investment which spread pairs to 75 million euros in three years 2016-2018.

The Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has emphasized that of the dry dock is a totally shared operation also from the Calabria Region that, in synergy with the harbour authority, has put in field specific measures financial institutions to the aim to implement and to diversify the working activities currently you anticipate in the calabrian port of call. Same synergy - it has specified the agency - is manifested by shipowning company MSC through an addressed missive the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Andrea Agostinelli, in which it has specified "own availability to carry out the work of maintenance to Gioia Tauro, confirming, also, own will to participate to an eventual ban of contest for the management directed, or indirect through society third, of the activity of ordinary maintenance and extraordinary repair of the ships".