The Court of Auditors has approved the 2020 management of the AdSP of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas

On the accounting data front - the Court then specified - all positive main balances 2020 (except the balance of part capital) and all improving on 2019 despite the crisis Pandemic. The financial surplus for the financial year shall be tripled compared to 2019 (€10.5 million), with a result current account (11.9 million) adjusted for a negative balance capital of 1.4 million. Administrative surplus (131.7 million of euros) is up 9% on 2019, with a share tied up of 91.17 million, of which 1.3 million for the fund severance pay, €10.80 million to the risk fund, charges and litigation and EUR 79.06 million for the execution of works and works according to the forecasts of the Three-Year Operational Plan. Net of the above, is part of the management availability of the port authority the remaining part of 40.49 million euros. The economic surplus is positive for 12.2 million, strong increase compared to 2019 (+130%). Equity, at the end 2020 financial year, reaches 128.4 million euros (+10.5%). The cash consistency, up compared to 2019, goes from 141 millions of euros to over 151. The 2020 data for the year in a slight decrease the assessment of state royalties (3 million euros, against of the 3.3 in 2019). Instead, it improves the ability to collection of the institution, which went from 72% in 2019 to 92% in 2020.

The absence of the port master plans of Gioia Tauro, Crotone and Corigliano Calabro, not yet approved for lack of prescribed, respective opinions, thus led the Court to reiterate, in line with previous reports, that the adoption of the PRP, a fundamental tool for the correct planning of the structural development of the port area, it is to be considered can no longer be postponed.

From the contextual analysis, the Section, evaluating the increase in active and passive residues referred to previous years as a symptom of a criticality in the planning and implementation of the works and port works, he remarked how much already expressed in the previous reports, so that it is defined the actual collection of capital loans, for start/complete the planned works, hoping for an action of prodding and address in this sense also by the Ministry watchful.

Finally, the accounting magistrates consider it necessary for the future, the adoption, of a planning tool that includes in a timetable linked to budgetary resources, the works already planned and future ones. This is for the purposes of transparency and reporting of the state of implementation of the works to be realized, with verification - given the time elapsed since their programming and the changes resulting from the establishment of the new AdSP - about their still being in line with the current ones port planning tools.