Propeller Clubs of Brindisi and Taranto is contrary to the insertion of their ports in two AdSP different



Propeller Clubs of Brindisi and Taranto, territorial associations of the The International Propeller Clubs, organism that has the scope to promote and to develop the relations between operators of the field of the transports, complain that the provision on the new form of governance of the Italian ports approved of in definitive way at the end last month from the government places in two various containers the ports of their cities, inserting them respective in the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Meridionale, that it groups the ports of Bari, Brindisi, Manfredonia, Barletta and Monopolies, and in that of the Ionian Sea, in which figure the single port of Taranto ( on 29 July 2016)

In a letter opened to the mayors of Salento, the presidents of Propeller Club of Brindisi and Taranto, Donato Caiulo and Michele Conte, have remembered "that, originally, after a long series of studies by the Ministry of Infrastructures, let alone of the commission of the 15 "tests" named ad hoc, National the Strategic Plan of the Portualità and the Logistics, approved of from the Council of Ministers in August 2015, previewed 14 Authorities of Harbour System with an only Authority of Harbour System in Apulia, with center to Taranto" and that "on such hypothesis of Only Authority of the Apulia had been expressed positively Propeller and all the harbour operators brindisini in the encounter with the councilman of minister Delrio, Ivano Russo, in September 2015, but also the tarantini".

Caiulo and Conte have remembered moreover that "such choice of an only Authority of Logistic and Harbour System apulian was shared and agree also by the four commissioners of the current apulian Harbour Authorities that on December 2, 2015, to the presence of minister Delrio, to Taranto had undersigned: "Agreement of which to art. the 15 of the law 7 August 1990 n. 241 and ss. milimeter and ii. to the aims of the realization of the Harbour and Logistic System Apulian"".

The presidents of Propeller of Brindisi and Taranto have reminded moreover that "unfortunately, successively to the subscription of such agreement, the eve of Christmas 2015, the mayor of Bari have claimed, directly near the government, the role of the metropolitan city of Bari as center of an own comprising Authority of Harbour System and the five ports of Bari, Manfredonia, Monopolies, Barletta and Brindisi" and that, "as a result of this, to the former Authority of Only System of the Apulia, composed from six ports and with center to Taranto, it has remained the single port of Taranto.

Specifying that "this "repentino change", than drift from the preliminary studies of the Strategic Plan of the Portualità and the Logistics of minister Delrio and that has not carried from 14 to 15 the Authorities of Harbour System in Italy, was approved of in Council of Ministers in January 2016 and confirmed in the Council of Ministers on July 28, 2016", Caiulo and Conte have emphasized that "such choice, endured from the city of Brindisi in a period in which the city is commissariata, appears in contradiction is with the same one Slowly of approved of portualità in August 2015 (where "logic of the mono-port of call" wide was criticized and exceeded) is because some "concert" has not seted off or consultation with the interested territories and their institutions; therefore - Caiulo and Conte have denounced - having left the Authority of System of Taranto mono-port of call is found that, that is with the single port of Taranto an enormous contradiction regarding logic and to the objectives of National the Strategic Plan of the Portualità and the Logistics appears that had characterized own in the dimension "mono-port of call" one of the points of weakness of the Italian portualità".

Caiulo and Conte have remembered that also "in the reform of the Chambers of Commerce the union of the two Chambers of Commerce of Brindisi and Taranto is previewed, and analogous "fusion" are happening between the unions of the two provinces (or former-provinces, or future only province)".

The representatives of two Propeller Clubs have observed that, instead, "they could themselves at best have interpreted the vocations of the regional territories making to emerge aimed at territorial, activity and places that correspond to the two sub-regional areas, historically and geographically very determined and characterized", that is "from Bari area with the ports of Bari, Manfredonia, Monopolies, Barletta and Molfetta" and "the Jonian-Salentine policentrica area, ancient "the Earth of Otranto" with the ports of Taranto, Brindisi, Otranto and Gallipoli".

Caiulo and Conte have concluded asking president for the Region Puglia an participation near the government, in the times prescribed from the reform of the portualità (15 days from the publication), "to the aim to coherently favor the real vocations of the places to historical geography of the Salentine territory in occasion of the same reform of the portualità of which the publication is previewed in the next few days".