Federagenti accusation the Regions Sardinia, Calabria and Sicily to delay the nomination of the presidents of the ports of Cagliari, Gioia Tauro and Palermo



Federagenti, the federation of the Italian shipping agents, denunciation the lacked nomination the presidents of the ports of Cagliari, Gioia Tauro and Palermo to months from the effectiveness of the reform of the governance of the Italian ports that is introduced 15th September.

The port of Cagliari attends the nomination of the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Sardinia, the new agency that it will supervise to the management of the ports of Cagliari, Olbia, Porto Torres, Golfo Aranci, Oristano, Portoscuso-Portovesme and Santa Teresa di Gallura. Currently the Harbour Authority of Cagliari, so as that of the Sardinia North that manages the ports of call of Olbia, Porto Torres and Golfo Aranci, is guided by an extraordinary commissioner. "A commissariamento - it has evidenced Federagenti - than in Sardinia is extended from 45 months".

Same situation for the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, that it is commissariata and that will have to be replaced from the Authority of Harbour System of the Strait with jurisdiction, as well as on the gioiese harbour port of call, on the ports of Crotone, Corigliano Calabro, Taureana of Palmi, Villa San Giovanni, Vibo Valentia, Reggio Calabria, Messina, Milazzo and Tremestieri. "A total negligence - it has observed Federagenti - also to the countdown that Gioia Tauro upon maturity of the redundancy fund is leading and therefore to a announced financial ruin".

"Hush a tombale one - it has added Federagenti - on the destiny of Palermo and Trapani, today focused more on the local elections that on the future of piers and docks". The two Sicilian ports, in fact, with the ports of call of Termini Imerese and Porto Empedocle, will have to be managed from the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Western Sicily that is also it waiting for the nomination of its president.

Within Federagenti the presidents of the associations of the shipping agents of Cagliari, Gioia Tauro and the Sicilian ports have denounced "the precise responsibilities of the regional administrations of Sardinia, Calabria and Sicily, that they have hasty the respective harbour systems in stall being extended it are: in a total disinterestedness of the local institutions - they have explained - a real paradox determined from the lacked nomination is being consumed on the docks the presidents of last the three still vacant Harbour Authorities of System".

"To Cagliari - it has specified Michele Pons, president of the Sardinian agents - the management of the port, and now of the new Authority of competent System on all the portualità of the island, is entrusted by 45 months to a commissariale management. With the lacked nomination a president and in the eternal litigation opened from the Sardinia Region that a Sardinian to the guide of all would want the ports of call of the island, all have been blocked from almost four years the development policies, not to mention infrastructures and of the dredgings. In this situation the Sardinia is losing, and probably it has already lost, in definitive way the possibility to take advantage of the created opportunities also in the field of the cruises, from the geopolitical crisis of many countries of the Mediterranean, directly concurrent".

"To Gioia Tauro - it has emphasized Michele Mumoli, president of the shipping agents in Calabria - the crisis is not a hypothesis. The port seems to have feed a distance without way out and not even the events of the last weeks have not sortito the effect auspicious to attract the attention of politics and especially of the Calabria Region that does not seem to have interest to take a net position on the existence of Gioia Tauro, as evidenced in the attitude expressed regarding a candidate indicated from the ministry and considered with insufficient not suitable clarity. The protests in dock - Mumoli has remembered - are only stopped in front of the knowledge that the port by now works with a single shipowner and that a strike to the death would have carried to lose also that. Gioia Tauro wants to survive. Now the expiration of the redundancy fund is near and, in absence of the new agency for the job that would put entirety Gioia Tauro, Taranto and Cagliari, nobody, tantomeno the local government, seems to become account of an imminent ingestibile situation with possible social reactions that the Calabria in the past has demonstrated to know to carry to the extreme consequences".

"A blanket of Hush total - it is the denunciation of Gaspare Panfalone, president of the Sicilian shipping agents - is dropped on the port of Palermo. The political E region forces seem to be more interested to the next local elections in the Municipalities of Palermo and Trapani that to the destiny of the port, for which still latita the name of the president. In order not to then speak about the regional elections waits a year from now with the perspective of a been extended election campaign. To ignore in a island the strategic role of a port and generally of the transports (among other things remains without head also twin Messina to Gioia Tauro) means to tread on the rights and the expectations of the citizens, questioning the competitiveness of the entire economic system isolate. But it means especially irresponsibility".

From part its president of Federagenti, Gian Enzo Duci, has found that "regarding the nominations the government has made that he had; now she is up to the regional administrations to print an acceleration that is indispensable in order to guarantee a future to the ports and especially to who inside of the ports it works".