The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Southern and Ionian invited the Regional Consortium for the development of productive activities (Corap) to transfer the availability of former Enel areas receiving a investment of €10 million under the finalised PNRR the realization of infrastructural road works in service of the port of Gioia Tauro. The area has been disputed for years in court from the AdSP and from Corap, with the latter that recently it was recognized as the owner by the Council of State. Property of which the port authority considers that Corap is not nothing else "except the mere holder" and this – it has specified the AdSP – on the basis of an opinion requested to the District Attorney of the State of Reggio Calabria, mandatory in case of transactions between public Administrations.

The invitation of the Authority of Harbour System arrives in view of the deadline of next December 31 by which the work must be awarded on pain of losing the funding of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. The AdSP has specified that to define a rapid procedure that would not lose funding European Parliament and therefore allowing the completion of the work, there have been many interlocutions with Corap and with the Region Calabria.

The port authority has recalled that the works are also functional to the implementation of an expansion of the activity of the terminalista Automar with which last February 24 the institution Portuale has signed a specific program agreement concerning the use of adequately infrastructured areas in to which the terminalista Medcenter Container is of similar interest Terminal.

The Authority of Harbour System has announced to have sent a formal request to Corap to transfer to the availability of the former Enel areas within 30 days, otherwise the AdSP will take legal action both for the reacquisition of areas and for compensation for damages consisting of the possible loss of PNRR funding, any higher cost that the institution will have to bear for the port infrastructure, both for the loss of the opportunities for development of the port of Gioia Tauro.