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Toninelli asks two months for social peace in order to unblock the state of crisis of the port of Gioia Tauro
Shown also the revocation of the concession to MCT
February 19, 2019
Two months of social peace in order to unblock meantime the state of crisis in which it pours the port of Gioia Tauro. It is how much has asked today the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Danilo Toninelli, in occasion of the summit convened to Rome in order to face the problem of the bending of the containerized traffics through the harbour port of call calabro and the heavy consequences on the occupation, reunion to which Medcenter has not been introduced Container Terminal (MCT), the society of the group Contship Italy that manages the container terminal of the port.
"Minister Toninelli - they have explained Giuliano Galluccio of the national Uiltrasporti and Giuseppe Rizzo of the Uilltrasporti Calabria to the term of the encounter to the Mit - has asked us two months for social peace, against a engagement of investment by MSC (group that possesses 50% of the MCT capital, ndr), that it would have to carry to a handling in two years of 4,5 million teu/containers and also a hypothesis of eventual revocation of the concession, if Contship, also today absent, will not make its part".
"The Uiltrasporti - Galluccio and Rizzo have asserted - appreciates that by the government the port of Gioia Tauro is placed between the issues of national character, so as the participation of defense and protection of this strategic infrastructure for the Calabria and Italy, but the situation remains fluid and our alert is maximum for the occupational guarantee of all the workers and for the future of the port. We will not afford that the port of Gioia Tauro goes to the dogs".
"We will verify - they have specified Galluccio and Rizzo - how much advanced from minister Toninelli and how much it will really come put in field and fact in concrete terms. We must sift if the said things today will correspond to the true one, since in the last years we have many times over received reassurances and collected intentions never realized".
Galluccio and Rizzo have specified moreover that the state of suffering regards also the port of Cagliari, where the containerized trade are enlivened by the CICT, branch of the same group Contship Italy that - they have emphasized the representatives of the union - "it would have to be engaged to carry traffic to you".
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