Coast trace a flattering budget of its two mandates to the guide of the port of Venice



Reached upon maturity of its second term the presidency of the Harbour Authority of Venice, charge that has assumed in July 2008, today Paolo Costa has traced a budget of a period characterized from difficulty: "the crisis financial institution of the 2008 - it has remembered - economic resumption, single momentary, beginning from 2010, the thud recorded of new in the 2012 and slow escape from the crisis of the begun world-wide economy in the 2014 in fact has produced important effects that have changed the regional, national and world-wide scene economic and have affected heavy total the productive and economic truths".

Coast has evidenced that, in spite of this difficult world-wide economic context, "the port of Venice with its three ports of call is successful to pass from a port that in the 2008 nobody knew to Rome and Brussels to a port of first floor on a national level and inserted in 2013 in the net of the European priority ports and in these days one of the primary knots of the commercial traffics between Europe and China distinguishing itself also in some fields that have recorded sensitive rates of growth".

"An example - it has specified - is the field of the container, passed from the 379,072 teu of 2008 to 605,875 teu (+59.8%) of the 2016 or still agribusiness that, in period 2008/2016 it passes from 1.981.875 to 2.322.025 tons. And also the oil produced numbers of, single to the appearance the negatives for the disappearance of the crude oil, carry instead good news". In period 2008-2016, in fact, the enlivened total traffic from the port of Venice has recorded a decrease of five million tons, coming down from 30,2 million to 25,2 million tons, determined from the zero setting of the traffic of crude oil that in 2008 was pairs to 5,8 million tons, circumstance that has determined a total reduction pairs to 3,3 million tons of the liquid bulk traffic to which it has joined to the effect of the decrease of 1,4 million tons of the traffic of the bulk sand banks, while in the period the traffic of the goods several has remained almost stable.

"The derivative oil traffic - it has specified Coast - passes from 5.091.599 to 7.524.598, with an increase of 47.8% to testimony that Marghera Port is today an important truth in the field of the production and bio-fuel distribution. Interesting a given other - it has added - regards the field ro-ro, halved from of the Mediterranean oriental (Egypt, Syria, Libya), but firstly ripresosi civil and political the crises fastly beginning from 2014. From then the port of Venice it has known to put on a new dedicated terminal that between 2015 and 2016 it has increased of 30.7% the traffics ro-ro, since it could have been greater if the government had unblocked also for Venice the quotas for the Turkish market. An ulterior increment deriving from new traffics in the field attends in the next few months us automotive".

"An other since it explains the competitiveness of the port - has emphasized Coast - it is that railway one: in the 2016 port of Venice it has had the greater increment in Italy pairs to +46%, that it has carried handling of 7.140 trains in a year, having launch Venice between the main ports that use the railway modality together with La Spezia, Trieste and Genoa".

"The port of Venice - it has still evidenced Coast - has known therefore to not only withstand to world-wide the economic crisis and the productive and manifacturing difficulties of own domestic market and the contendibili markets, but also it has recovered a primary role, that it seemed loosed, and on a national level European investing in anti-cyclical perspective and starting a vituous distance for giving body to a new alliance between port, logistics and industry".

Coast has assumed the guide of Venetian harbour authority in July 2008, assignment that is keeps on those of minister of the Public works in period 1996-1998 and of mayor of Venice from 2000 to 2005 and to a decade in which it has been to europarlamentare and president in 2003-2009 of the Commission to the Transports and tourism of the European Parliament. Al its successor, that is to he who president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Mare Adriatico Settentrionale will be named, the new agency who will manage the ports of Venice and Chioggia, Coast has implicitly suggested some initiatives to which debit prosecuzione. To guide the AdSP Pino Musolino is designated, designation that at the beginning of this month to received the green light of the Chamber of Deputies ( on 2 February 2017).

According to Coast, in fact, in order to make of Marghera Port a pole of production to high added value, a commercial and industrial port to the height of its historical tradition, it is necessary in the first place "to proceed to the realization of the VOOPS (Offshore Venice Onshore Portual System)", it arranges whose definitive planning is adjudicated at the beginning of this month to the grouping of enterprises Italian-Chinese 4C3 ( on 3 February 2017). Moreover, for Coast, it must "adopt in the short possible time a solution for the crocieristico field in a position to giving I keep on I decree Clini-Passera of March 2012 and, at the same time, to maintain crocieristica the excellence Venetian and not to prejudice the harbour, logistic and industrial development of Marghera Port". At last, it is necessary "to aim at digital connectivity with the realization of a net in hooligan-wide band and the administrative-buorcratica informatizzazione according to how much already made from the port of Venice".