Crotone will collaborate with the port of Taranto in order to favor the traffics of goods and passengers in the sea Ionian



Crotone, calabrian ionic city that - relatively to the marine traffics that connect the Europe to Asia - is placed half way between the routes that they land to the adriatic ports and to those which they arrive to the tirrenici ports, has decided to collaborate with the apulian port of Taranto to the aim to favor the traffics of goods and passengers in the sea Ionian. To notice that the recent review of the norms of the governance of the Italian portualità has placed the port of Crotone under the jurisdiction of the Authority of Harbour System of the Strait, that center of the AdSP), Corigliano Calabro, Messina, Reggio Calabria, Taureana of Palmi is called to manage also the ports of Gioia Tauro (, Tremestieri, Vibo Valentia and Villa San Giovanni.

With such objective 31st July near the Authority of Harbour System of the Ionian Sea, the agency that governs the port of Taranto, has held an encounter to which they have participated the president of the AdSP, Sergio Prete, the whom reached councilman of the Chamber of Commerce of Taranto, Luca Lazzaro, the president and the councilman of the Chamber of Commerce of Crotone with delegation to infrastructures, Alfio Pugliese and Francesco Lagani, let alone Piero Castelliti and Marco Tricoli in representation of the entrepreneurs with interests on the port of Crotone.

"The reform of the Harbour Authorities - the presidents of the Chambers of Commerce of Taranto and Crotone have explained illustrating the reasons of the collaboration - is proceeding towards a system that stimulates the aggregations more ports to regional and extraregional level. In such sense the Harbour Authority is constituted of the composed Tyrrhenian South by Gioia Tauro and Messina with territorial vocation on the tirrenico depositor, while regarding Ionian the permane only that with center in Taranto. Seen the current investments for the practicability, in particular on the Sybaris-Rose garden feature Head Spulico, and for the railroads, they will be facilitated and stimulated the displacements of people and things between Calabria, Basilicata and Apulia. Therefore the Chambers of Commerce of Taranto and Crotone, united to the Authority of the Harbour System of the Ionian Sea, intend to start a collaboration that incentives the traffic of goods and passengers on the ionic depositor".

"The Authority of the Harbour System of the Ionian Sea - they have added to Luigi Sportelli and Alfio Pugliese - has quantified in 500 million euros the programmed infrastructural participations and partially already realized. Considering that the port of Taranto is to strong industrial and commercial vocation, while Crotone has a portualità mainly oriented towards tourism and the diportismo, emerge the margins for a profitable and favorable integration for both territories. From more foreheads the necessity emerges to exceed parochialisms in order launch the ionic depositor as an only brand, also in consideration that is the availability of the provincial municipal administrations and to develop and to strengthen economic policies shared for the benefit of the territory, promuovendo the distintive characteristics and, at the same time, valuing the complementarinesses. Such encounter goes in this direction and, we are sure that, working in such sense, putting into effect a combined planning of the activities of the ports of Crotone and Taranto, of it will benefit all the South".