Postponed on 31 August the term for the presentation of request of concession for the container terminal to the Port Channel of Cagliari



The Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Sardinia has announced a new delay of the term for the presentation of request of concession for the management of the container terminal to the Port Channel of Cagliari. After to be is initially fixed for the end of February and being then sent back on 15 April and then still to next the first june, today the agency has communicated that the 31 expiration is postponed to next August.

The AdSP has explained that the new deferral of the term is decided on the base of various factors. In the first place - it has specified the agency - the prosecuzione of the emergenziale situation that has pushed some interested operators to speed up an ulterior extension of the necessary times for technical deepenings and, not secondary aspect, for the persistent difficulties in the connections with the island for the effettuazione of the necessary inspections. Then the demands for the labor organizations of activation of a new urgent interdepartmental table on the crisis of the Port Channel, whose outcomes - the authority has announced - own in the sitting of the day yesterday have recorded a full convergence on the opportunity of an ulterior finalized delay to guarantee a wider participation than subject to the international call.

"We have considered - it has clarified the president of the AdSP of the Sea of Sardinia, Massimo Deiana - of having to grant to an ulterior delay of the terms for the sollicitation of market for the future of the Port Channel the contingent situation, still extremely limiting for the displacements from and towards Italy and foreign country, the consequent risk of exclusion of potential subjects interested to the international call, joined to the demands for the labor organizations and, not last, to the prudential indications of the interdepartmental table yesterday, they push to us to still reconsider the expiration for the presentation of the proposals. My wish is that on 31 August this first phase can be shut positively and proceed with the definitive restart of the operativity of the terminal container of Cagliari".

While, in occasion of the encounter yesterday in order to face the concerning problems the industrial Port of Cagliari and the future of the activity of transhipment to the container terminal to which, besides the representatives of the labor organizations, the regional city council members of the Industry, Anita Pili have participated, and of the Transports, Giorgio Todde, the Sardinian regional city council member of the Job, Alessandra Zedda has evidenced the necessity "to guarantee a delay of the social shocks-absorber for all the workers of the commercial port of call until the location of the new operator of the terminal".

Next the 3 september will expire in fact the term of 12 months of redundancy fund previewed for the 208 workers of Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT) as a result of the procedure of closing for cessation of the business activity of the society of the group Contship Italy that managed the concession of the container terminal to the Port Channel. "We wish - the city council members have explained - than to the next summit who will on 3 June hold to Mise and the Ministry of the Job can trace the distance of economic support for all the workers and that all are defined the relative aspects to the dispute for I throw again a few days ago of the commercial port of call, returned more attractive dall '' inaugurated road infrastructure and that it will facilitate and return the connections with the docks and SS 195 surer".

In the course of the encounter the city council members Pili and Todde have remembered that the future of the activity of transhipment of the container terminal is in association with the tie of environmental impact that does not afford the release of the work "and for which - they have emphasized - it attends that it is removed as soon as possible by the Prime Minister's Office".