The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern "postpones to September" Piombino Logistics, the logistics company active in the port of Piombino which is wholly owned by JSW Steel Italy of Indian steel group JSW. The Tuscan port authority, in fact, considers that the executive summary of the business plan presented to April from Piombino Logistics can not be promoted and needs of a further assessment before it is possible to give a ruling on the Request for extension of the provisional concession currently current presented by the company and, above all, in operation of the steps to be taken in view of the subscription of the new Addendum to the 2018 Programme Agreement and the issuance of a definitive concession.

At today's meeting, the Management Committee The Executive Summary was presented, which consists of two phases of development, with the first providing for a substantial intervention renovation and redevelopment of the Lucchini pier, at present used occasionally due to some critical issues related to Piombino Logistics' decision not to provide demolition of obsolete cranes still present and unsuitable port operations for the type of goods today Worked. This phase, which involves an investment of 35 million euro and 115 ships processed annually at the pier, received a positive vote from the AdSP.

Not so the part of the first phase focused on construction close to the Lucchini pier of a large area, of about 200,000 thousand paintings, for the deposit of about 60,000 tonnes of production coils for the rolling mills of the South zone. The project is considered by the port authority oversized compared to current storage needs, a front of which - explained the person in charge of the procedure, the manager Fabrizio Marilli- would already be sufficient the state-owned areas currently present at the root of the Lucchini pier and placed adjacent to the former AFO plant which extend over approximately 75,000 square meters.

In addition, the third part of the first operational phase provides for the realization, in the areas immediately behind the former park Minerals, of a hydrogen production area with an investment planned for urbanization and construction of warehouses of 36 million euros and about 20 management staff of the plant.

The company's proposal to organize a logistics on rail of which to be the sole subject in charge of the service management for all types of goods operated as part of the new port of Piombino. Piombino's proposal Logistics is to use your position to stipulate "Agreements relating to intermodal hubs (ports, terminals) rail/road, logistics hubs and urban hubs) and infrastructure connected with the Scandinavian - Mediterranean Corridor". For the Responsible for the procedure, the company envisages a own role in contradiction with the planning of the institution and, in particular, with the Iron Plan elaborated and approved the administration that represents the policy tool, and planning the development of logistics in this segment operational. For the port authority, a further critical element is given by the forecast "of the candidacy of the Company as sole operator of the logistics service of the entire port area, proposing in practice a role monopolistic in the absence of any public tender procedure instead provided for by current legislation for the assignment of such task".

The second operational phase focuses on future expansion of the company and provides, as key points, the passage steel production from blast furnace to electric furnace, and the start of industrial production, in addition to the construction of new docks in the area - currently at sea - facing the land that Piombino Logistics currently has in concession by of the port authority.

For the AdSP, "the document presented plans and proposes interventions without considering in any way the activities already present in the new port areas and / or in the future Settlement on the basis of previous acts of the administration already in the process of implementation". A contrast, which according to of the port administration, it emerges clearly where it is plans to use most of the new areas north of the port, where some activities are already established and is Planned to settle/move further jobs later the changes resulting from the insertion of the SNAM regasification terminal FSRU at the new quay. Not only that, the AdSP notes that "the proposal provides for the use of both existing new infrastructure ports as well as those envisaged, exceeding what is today used by the company and referred to previous management of the steel plant, also inserting new and additional covered surfaces, for logistics warehouses, which conflict radically with the provisions of the Technical Implementation Standards".

Among the reasons why Piombino's business plan Logistics has been "postponed to September", the institution Portuale specifies that "there are state-owned areas for which There is no public interest in keeping the but rather the need for a their allocation to other major initiatives and such as to ensure their more profitable use, without any negative consequence for the forecasts of industrial development and productive of society".

"Our goal - summarized the president dell'AdSP, Luciano Guerrieri - is to encourage consolidation of the Piombino steel industry, without neglecting the need to ensure diversification productive and entrepreneurial. The executive summary makes manifest the Piombino Logistics' willingness to operate not only on All the current port but also on the one still to be built. Compared to the proposal, the required areas are oversized. Not Only: we believe that a share of the areas in which it operates currently Piombino Logistics must return to availability of the AdSP and subsequently be destined for other uses'. Guerrieri reiterated the intention of the harbour authority to want extend the current concession until September, "But - he specified - we will not fail to represent our position in regional and national tables».