The government can assure that the port of Gioia Tauro maintains and consolidates its leadership in transhipment traffic in the Mediterranean basin. This was highlighted by the president of the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas ; eridional and Ionian, Andrea Agostinelli, participating in the sixth edition of the Naples Shipping Week, the event dedicated to the economy of the sea taking place in the capital of Campania from 30 September to 5 September October. "Gioia Tauro, after ten years - said Agostinelli - is like a son, the most important national port with infinite margins for growth, but at the same time time is a Colossus of Rhodes, with some precariousness and some risks. The problem - explained the president of the Port Authority - of the workforce and its obvious repercussions on safety of workplaces, for example. Supplements for articles 16 that are not signed, the turnover of the staff of the terminal operator MCT and the problem of work peaks and establishment of the Company pursuant to Article 17. And then the anchorage fees, some of which are returned to the shipowners, while in Malta there is a much more significant system of tax deductions. The cold ironing, for which we are still waiting for the last and decisive tranche of funding. We as the Authorities of System - specified Agostinelli - that we put 35/40 million euros per year from our budgets to renovate five ports, or to build new docks, the last one inaugurated two months ago, and you You understand that all this cannot be enough, when the private invests much larger sums. We have a project definitive and far-sighted to widen the mouth of the port, from 285 to 400, and above all to the quota of -20, from just 165 to 290". The possibility of carrying out this project - implied - depends on the government's decision to finance it: "So - concluded Agostinelli - you will understand that the ball passes to the government, to its reform of the ports, but for the sake of as far as I am concerned, especially to his desire to maintain and develop Gioia Tauro's leadership in the transhipment».