Aponte (MSC) speeds up the collaboration of the institutions for throws again of the port of Gioia Tauro



For I throw again of the port of Gioia Tauro is necessary the collaboration of all. It has said Gianluigi Aponte, founder and chairman of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), in the course of the visit carried out yesterday to the port on personal invitation of the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Andrea Agostinelli.

Recently the shipowning group has assumed - through the Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) - the entire control of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the society that manages the terminal for containers of the calabrian port of call. Emphasizing the importance of the made job until now, Aponte has found that "the participation of the government and the extraordinary commissioner Andrea Agostinelli has been fundamental for the resumption of Gioia Tauro and I want to give they merit, because without that operation I would today not have been here to celebrate the rebirth of the port. Now - it has added - account on the collaboration of all, because the effort is made and has reached successfully. We are making our part, but the authorities are always need of the continuous collaboration of all so that the port of call lathes to being a well-respected safe haven and on the market, so that our customers dot more and more on Gioia Tauro".

In the course of the day an operating reunion between Aponte has held and Agostinelli, accompanied from management of the harbour agency, in order to deepen the total program of I throw again of the port of call. Sul table of I confront are placed the various activities put in field from the harbour authority in order to equip to the port of the widest and modern infrastructuring let alone the important investments of the shipowner in order to afford to the port of call to return to assume a position leadership in the Mediterranean. "We have defined with the terminalista shipowner - Agostinelli has explained - the future steps of the synergy between private investments and publics who in the day of saturday I will have the pleasure to illustrate to the government in the person of viceministro the Cancelleri". The representative of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports will be in fact tomorrow visiting to thematic the calabrian Harbour Authority in order to deepen to governmental level the inherent ones throws again of the port of call.

Yesterday Aponte has met also the president of Reggio Calabria Confindustria, Domenico Vecchio. "To Aponte and management of TIL-MSC - it has announced Old - I have manifested the full will of Confindustria to operate sinergicamente on the territory in order to contribute to the resolution of the industrial projects of the company on the port reggino. At the same time I have wished that the presence of a terminalista so hard, that exercises a first floor role on the total market, is heralding of a total development of the economy reggina". "Confindustria - it has specified Old - is interested strongly to the development of the retroportuale area, whose flood and entered effective operatively will determine an increase of the wealth of the territory, producing effects benefits on the occupation. Al president Aponte we have asked to share road map on engagements and investments that contribute to give back to Gioia Tauro, in the short possible time, the role that it competes to this infrastructure".