Proclaimed ten days of strike to the port of Gioia Tauro



The labor organizations Cgil, Cisl, Uil, Ugl and Sul have proclaimed ten days of strike in the port of Gioia Tauro, from the 13 on 24 April next ones, in order to protest against the procedure of mobility finalized to the lay-off of 400 harbour ones started from the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the society of the group Contship Italy that manages the terminal for containers of the calabrian harbour port of call.

While the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has made the point on the activities of address, progettualità and executive put in field in this period in order to increase the performances of the port. "We have put in existence - it has evidenced the extraordinary commissioner of the agency, Andrea Agostinelli - a wide and complex programmatica and executive activity in order to equip the port of call, through also the institution of the Agency of the harbour job, of specific occupational truths, accompanied from a aimed program of formation, that it is the consequence of the diversification of the placed harbour activities in being. It is not, therefore, wasted not even a moment of time. We are ready - it has emphasized Agostinelli referring to the next passage of the deliveries between the Harbour Authority and the new Authority of Harbour System of Mari Tirreno Meridionale, Jonio and of the Strait - to leave this new truth and these new opportunities to next "the governance"".

Between the last initiatives in existence, the Harbour Authority has remembered the acquisition of a "System of inspection mobile scanner", that is a specific endowed scanner of elevated technology for safety controls of the containerized trade enlivened in port, equipment that meanwhile will guarantee the fluidity of the transit of the container. The specific contract of the value of 1,5 million euros has been undersigned friday slid with a group of national enterprises and foreign that have adjudicated the contest and to the delivery of the scanner the harbour agency will activate the procedures of stipulates of a convention with the Agency of Customs that of it will have the use loan.

Moreover the Harbour Authority has announced that today, as a result of various encounters with RFI and the director of German logistic group BLG, that it manages the terminal for motors vehicle of the calabrian port, is established in business as formation of the trains used after the transport of the motor vehicles and finalize to favor a better functionality of the terminal. The agency has emphasized that it will be in fact possible to have a direct connection that will at the market offer to the port of call an ulterior opening of the cars that, reaching Gioia Tauro, will be able to reach the outback, as well as on rubber, through the railway connections in easyr and fast way. In the earlier stage the service will be carried out twice-weekly with the future possibility of an increment of the frequency to six connections weeklies magazine.

Between the initiatives in order to increase the competitiveness of the port, the harbour authority has remembered also the strong impulse to the conclusion of the iter of start of the work of realization of the new railway gateway, for which a dowel lacks only. After to have completed and transmitted last January to the documentation to the Calabria Region, the agency it is in fact waiting for to receive the verification of pre-feasibility of environmental impact of the infrastructure, as a result of which will be proceeded last November to the approval of the introduced executive definitive project from the Sogemar that has adjudicated the contest of planning, realization and management of the new intermodal terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro.

Moreover the agency has evidenced that the competitiveness of the port of call will be guaranteed also by the multimedia computer science platform that will interest the entire harbour area and its retroporto and that it will be put on of the agencies and all the private operators with the objective to facilitate the transfer of documents and communications. The appropriate contest already is adjudicated with relative subscription of the contract.

Already square metres are delivered also to the work of realization of an industrial shed of new generation of 25 thousand that will be destined to industrial activities, of warehouse, working and of handling goods inside of the bonded area of the port and in these days specific encounters with international operators of the integrated logistics are started to which to introduce the opportunities offered from this truth.

The Harbour Authority has remembered at last the work under dredging and of adaptation of the docks, to the aim to guarantee the full functionality of the port of call through a greater efficiency of the harbour activities, let alone the start of the iter of realization of the functional infrastructural works to the realization of the dry dock, work that the scope has to make of Gioia Tauro a hub harbour complete in a position to offering integrated services and answering to all the various requirements of market.