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the operators of the port of Crotone denounce the inactivity of the initiatives for the development of the port of call
Sped up the acceleration of the iter of adoption of the Portuale Town development plan
October 10, 2017
. To little days from the cancellation caused from strong the twenty of the port of call in the calabrian port of the Prinsendam cruise ship of the Holland America Line company, previewed for slid Sunday, the Association of the Harbour and Marine Operators of Crotone has remembered that beyond a year it makes are activated initiatives shared with the new municipal administration so that the harbour infrastructure becomes point of reference for the entire Jonian belt and the Mediterranean, supporting all the multiple activities of business: tourism, diporto, crocieristica, goods, shipbuilding, peach and services. However after the encounters promoted from the Municipality of Crotone with the harbour operators and the professional orders of October and November 2016 and after the encounter near the Chamber of Commerce of the slid spring and after important others and you specify confronts institutional let alone formal communications for demands for urgent participations - it has evidenced the association - "the situation still seems, unfortunately and almost inexplicably, run aground".
"Between olezzi of insufferable fognari drainages, boats sunk, fatiscenti structures, unsound docks, absence of services and spreading soil - it has explained the association - another summery season is passed. Thanks to the praiseworthy private initiatives of companies, operators, concessionaires and associations, thousands of people have visited the city and its port, tourists, sport, crocieristi and billionaires arrived in yacht, between which Russian sheiks, magnates, owners of multinationals and quite principles, than obviously have made pause for little days if hours, received from great professionalities but in an environmental context not to say little desolating".
The Association Operating Harbour and Marine has remembered that "from years it evidences as the Town development plan Portuale (PRP) represents the instrument key and the first step in order to put again in motion the port, affording structural investments important using also deep that by years available and they are never spold. But in spite of the reassurances and the words which put on record in the encounters - it has emphasized the association - after almost ten years the iter of approval of the preliminary matter it is not completed".
The association therefore has asked "that the Municipality of Crotone gives to a fort and concrete impulse deliberating the approval of the new outline of PRP, having carried the attention of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro the result of the happened concertazione a year ago and supporting the adoption of the plan in times breviums".
Moreover the association has sped up the local institutions "to inside represent with force the requests of the operators of the Harbour Committee. Province, Municipality and Chamber of Commerce - it has found the representation of the harbour operators - would have to operate in tight synergy for the interest of the represented territory".
Thanking the Chamber of Commerce for the action put in field also in the last weeks in order to hold weever the attention on the topic, the association has concluded wishing "that there is the ability to continue in coordinated way, above all in consideration of the opportunity to tie the realization of investments in the port to the reclamation of the area Until, since this last one comprises also the harbour area".
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