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La Spezia Port Service rejects the decision to extend until the 2019 concession to the APLS Investments
the association is estimating if to introduce a signalling to the MIT
October 27, 2016
La Spezia Port Service, representation of the shipping agents, shippers and customs brokers of, has characterized as "inopportune, hurled, mistaken in the merit and in the form, it dissatisfies to the indications of the competent Ministry and out of due time maximum" the assumed decision tuesdays the Harbour Committee break to for services extend until the 2019 concession to the crocieristi in from Liguria port to the APLS Investments, society in house of the same Harbour Authority of that controls 100% of the capital ( on 25 October 2016).
La Spezia Port Service has emphasized that "this decision, supported from the favorable ballot of the Municipality and the Province, is destined, as well as to prime a series of resources on its legitimacy, to create in tissue harbour economic an incurable fracture, shaping also an unexpected alliance between local authorities, to the probable eve of the nomination of the new president of the Authority of Harbour System (La Spezia and Marina di Carrara) that would be found private automatically of great part of the power on a strategic field as is that of the cruises".
Remembering as "the Harbour Authority controls to majority also the society Discover, person in charge of the activity of incoming and acceptance of the passengers", Port Service has denounced also "the interlacings of charges, firstly - it has specified the association - that of the president of the Harbour Authority, Lorenzo Forcieri, at the same time president of the company APLS Investments to which the concession is renewed, that they see protagonists members of the Harbour Committee and members of the board of directors of APLS".
La Spezia Port Service has concluded announcing that it is estimating "if to introduce a signalling to the Infrastructure and Ministry of Transportation that - it has remembered the representation of community the harbour spezzina - only little days ago had invited the outgoing presidents of the old Harbour Authorities to only carry out ordinary administration functions".
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