The Management Committee of the Port System Authority of the Center-North Tyrrhenian Sea approved yesterday unanimously the resolution to close the procedure relating to the state of crisis of the entity terminating the procedure launched in 2021 following the worsening of the already difficult 2019 budgetary situation caused by the sharp reduction in of freight and passenger traffic due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision was taken on the basis of the report technical-administrative investigation and the favourable opinion expressed by the Board of Auditors. The audit highlighted the overcoming the conditions that had determined the state of crisis. The resolution will be transmitted to the supervising ministries and to the Court of Auditors, entity control section.

The president of the Port Authority, Raffaele Latrofa, expressed great satisfaction with the approval of the resolution "because - he underlined - a procedure that for years has burdened on the institution, making the activity more complex and limiting in some cases the possibility of intervene on fundamental aspects, starting with the staff and the regulations, Since I took office - he added - I have considered priority to give a decisive impetus to the definition of this procedure, in the belief that the System Authority should return to operate with full programming capacity and management".

During the meeting, the Management Committee also took into account Acknowledgment of the conclusions of the working group on the future application for cruise units, giving a mandate to the offices of proceed with the review of the Roma Cruise concession Terminal, the equal joint venture of Costa Cruises, Marinvest and Royal Caribbean, and the start of the technical investigation for the lengthening and rectification of platforms 16 and 18, intervention considered strategic for the future structure of the cruise sector.