Signed the action of concession for the pole of demolition, refitting and realization of ships in the port of Piombino



Today to Florence, in the center of the Tuscany Region, the action of concession to Piombino Marine Industries (IMP) of the new areas of the port of Piombino on which the pole of national excellence will be realized dedicated to the demolition, to the refitting and to the realization of ships has been undersigned. The action allows with the IMP to install itself in the port and to begin the construction of sheds and structures, starting quantifiable investments in about 14 million euros, with occupational perspectives, operatively, for about 200 workers.

The contract is signed by the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Piombino, Luciano Guerrieri, and by Piero Neri, president of IMP, society participated from genoese Saint George of the Port (SGdP) and from the livornese Black Siblings. To the signature they were you anticipate moreover the president of the Tuscany Region, Enrico Rossi, that he is also coordinator of the agreements of program for the area of complex crisis of Piombino and commissioner for the work of modernization of the port, the managing director of Piombino Marine Industries, Ferdinando Garrè, the mayor of Piombino, Massimo Giuliani, regional councilman Gianni Anselmi and the representative of Tuscany Logistics, Giovanni Bonadio.

The areas that are granted to IMP for a period 40-year-old have a surface total of 103.295 square metres, of which already 80,922 realized and others 22,373 of next realization, that they would have to be finished within 12 months. The objective of Piombino Marine Industries is to begin to realize infrastructures in the first months of 2017 and to start the activities in the second half of the next year.

The new infrastructure will for dismantling leave with the activity guaranteed from the agreement with the Marina Militare and Defense Ministry of military ships previewed from the agreement of program for the area of complex industrial crisis, but it will continue in the contacts with the private shipowning market in order to make sure other store clerks.

"What IMP will realize to Piombino - has emphasized the president of the Tuscany Region - will be the only harbour pole of the Mediterranean for demolitions, maintenances and refitting naval in compliance with the European norms. That today is an historical signature for the Val di Cornia and the Tuscany because, financial graces to a solid participation of the Region on the port for beyond 110 million euros, we have been able to give to a future to this area and an acceleration to the portualità Tuscany, for a work of productive and occupational stability that will be completed to year-end with the arrival of General Electric and its platform of assemblage and industrial logistics. It is the public hand - it has evidenced Enrico Rossi - that has created an infrastructure of European level, with backdrops of 20 meters and attraction for the private entrepreneurs and therefore in a position to generating new occupation".

"The group Black - it has asserted Piero Neri, general manager of the livornese group and president of IMP - engages in this initiative the experiences matured in the most various fields of the logistic economy marine-harbour and that go from the most varied marine services to the harbour terminalismo for producing solid liquids and. The starting point of the activity of IMP, the echo-compatible naval demolition, represents a new challenge that Europe has decided to accept and to which we with SGdP have decided to participate. The infrastructure that will be entrusted to us in the next few days has characteristic of dimensional flexibilities and that stimulate our group to search every ulterior opportunity offered from a world, as that of the economy of the sea, in which the innovation is success factor".

"With the pole of Piombino - it has found the managing director of Piombino Marine Industries, Ferdinando Garrè - Italy has the opportunity to carry out a role guides to European level in the naval demolitions, a growth potential high field. The excellence in the shipbuilding one, the vocation to the marine economy, the technical know-how-how in our possession represents presupposed strategic for the ship recycling. Leaving from the agreement for dismantling of the military ships of Marina and then opening us to the demands for the market, to Piombino we are ready in order to put these competences at work".

Satisfaction for the initiative is expressed also by the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Piombino: "with this allocation - Luciano Guerrieri has said - we have reached to an important phase of the activity of the Harbour Authority, that it has been able to give new life, and in times many breviums, to an infrastructure of great virtue, selecting an operator of quality as IMP. These choices project the port of Piombino in a new market, in a position to giving concrete occupational answers within a row from the remarkable potentialities of development, in a position to giving logistic, harbour and environmental answers for a sustainable development of the field".

"The society constituted the slid spring from the Black Siblings of Livorno and Saint George of the Port of Genoa for dismantling and the refitting of the great ships to Piombino - it has observed the mayor of Piombino, Massimo Giuliani - represents a very meaningful dowel for the economic diversification of our territory with occupational perspectives, once operatively, for about 200 workers. Draft of the concretizzazione of an important activity, previewed from the Agreement of Program for the reindustrialization of the territory of Piombino, sure yield from the European normative new for the sure and ecocompatibile recycling. Piombino therefore will be able to clearly leave with this new challenge, giving a vitality and concreteness sign".