Understanding in order to assure the prosecuzione of the activity of the ship yard of Liberty Lines to Trapani



The city council member to the productive Activities of the Sicilian Region, Mimmo Turano, the marine director of the Western Sicily and commander of the port of Palermo, rear admiral Salvatore Gravante, the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Western Sicily, Pasqualino Monti, has announced this morning a protocol of understanding for the resolution of the relative problem to the maintenance of the ship yard of Liberty Lines in the currently occupied area from the plant in the port of Trapani.

Emphasizing that the issue is crucial for the shipbuilding activities of the city and the port and, above all, for the occupation, the node is remembered that, that it involves the Asi Consortium of Trapani today, in liquidation, and the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports - Harbour office of Trapani, succeeded to the press (in the 2009) Harbour Authority of Trapani, regards the demanialità of the areas on which the yard of Liberty Lines insists, than a sentence first degree has recognized of property of the Asi.

Waiting for definitive judgment, and in proximity of the expiration of the concession, has been undersigned a protocol between the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports - Harbour office of Trapani, the regional councillorship to the productive Activities, the AdSP of the Sea of Western Sicily, the Asi Consortium of Trapani in liquidation and Liberty Lines. Based on the protocol, the Asi Trapani Consortium in liquidation gives in concession, from today, the areas on which are installed the ship yard of Liberty Lines, in attended that the title of the areas is assessed definitively.

"Today - it has emphasized rear admiral Gravante - the good sense, the goodwill and the ability to discuss between administrations have gained the upper hand on the confusion of the norms and the judicial provisions".

"What we have agreed - has added the president of the AdSP of the Sea of Western Sicily, Pasqualino Monti - represents a small miracle in terms of time and a good for all the city that aims a lot at its port. We have asked for the occupational repercussions that the eventual dismantling of the yard, for outage of the areas, would have produced on the territory, which considered that the yard appoints to a job about 90 assigned. Besides the consequences on the operativity of the social fleet of Liberty Lines and, to cascade, on the services line publics, if Liberty had been found forced to dismantle own yard, in which the maintenances and the repairs of the naval units are carried out that carry out the service".

"Shipbuilding the naval one to Trapani - the regional city council member has remembered Stops - is an important economic resource We has only made ours must, fastly, because it was necessary to guarantee to a company as Liberty Lines and the workers a perspective. I thank the president Monti and admiral Gravante for the engagement who are putting in the modernization and the requalification of all the port: the new terminal represents a sign hard in so far as".