Baker Hughes - Nuovo Pignone renounces to set up its own industrial activities in the port of Corigliano Calabro, an initiative that had led to the signing of a specific act and which was part of an investment plan up to 60 million euros in Calabria announced at the end of the last year by the company ( of 27 February 2024). Communicating the abandonment of the industrial project and the production plant in the port of Corigliano Calabro, "a project that - he recalled - the System Authority Port of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas had strongly wanted, with the convinced support of the Calabria Region, the industrial, of the entire trade union front and also of society civil, with the exception of a local association that carries out conceptions out of time", the president of the Port Authority, Andrea Agostinelli, specified that, "beyond a incomprehensible and unjustified procedural formalism, the truth is that the municipal council has demonstrated, in fact, that it does not wanted an industrial settlement in a port that had been deserted for 40 years, condemning him to another 100 years of solitude. They said no - he underlined Agostinelli - to an unmissable opportunity for development in full respect of environmental sustainability. Have said no to 200 jobs and 200 young people who from tomorrow they will take the road to the North to look for their own employment. Who did not want this project to be established in the port of Corigliano Calabro - concluded the President of the Authority of the Port System - enjoy this tragic victory!"