If to safeguard the activity of the port of Gioia Tauro there thought only Cgil, Cisl and Uil, it would be better that the airport Calabrian port there were other patron saints. Yes Why, judging by the way representatives Regional of the three unions have sounded the alarm because - They made it known - the port "really risks the closure to due to the European directive on the reduction of emissions in atmosphere in the maritime sector', it is inferred that the secretaries regional generals of CGIL, Angelo Sposato, CISL, Tonino Russo, and Uil, Santo Biondo, we know very little about the new European standard and therefore that of its possible negative impact on the port of call Calabrese have become aware of it by side streets and not we have understood well why this risk exists.

"As it is emerging, in fact - explained Sposato, Russian and Blonde for whom, evidently, the question is New - the directive will enter into force from 1 January 2024 And there is a risk, not to say certainty, that companies will transhipment, in order not to risk very heavy fines, relocate their activities to other ports, outside of the EU'. Apparently who reported to the three trade unionists the content of the Directive and its possible implications on the activity of the port of Gioia Tauro has not well clarified whereas it concerns the payment of emission allowances where they could incur shipowners who call their ships at the port Calabrian and not sanctions.

"It is necessary, therefore," Sposato warned, " Russian and Blonde - that the government and the Region intervene immediately for the EU to give shipping companies the time to renovate the emissions system'. And therefore, from the Babylon of voices from which the representatives regional CGIL, CISL and UIL have learned of the possible risk, Married, Russo and Biondo deduced - as I understand - that shipping companies should be given time to do what you do not know, if not - as others have warned more aware of them - change the routes of their ships to avoid ports of call, such as Gioia Tauro, which would trigger the obligation to pay.

"I am in danger - denounced Sposato, Russo and Blonde - thousands of jobs and is under discussion also the very future of the port of Gioia as a strategic hub in the Mediterranean'. Future that could also be compromised from the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina, which would be an obstacle to the passage of taller ships on the surface of the sea, as repeatedly reported by the our newspaper on the basis of the warnings expressed to this regarding from the shipowning group MSC that is not only the only terminalista of the port of Gioia Tauro active in the field of Container but it is also the company that practically keeps in Life the Calabrian port of call by directing us its container carriers. But since this is less recent history than the Alarms on the European directive perceived belatedly by the three trade unionists, we trust that Sposato, Russo and Biondo have already addressed this other issue which could also compromise the existence of the port.