For the port of Naples "the time has come to open a new phase: relaunching major works and combining the public investment a strong investment capacity of private entrepreneurship". This was stated by the president of the Industrial Union of Naples, Vittorio Genna, in a public position whose explicit intent is to open a development of the port, accompanied by the proposal of a discussion table with the Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea, with the aim of making the port of Naples a engine of development of the territory.

"In recent years," Genna explained, "we have followed progress on investment and planning. We believe it is a great success for the Port System Authority having completed, in the three-year period 2024-2026, infrastructure investments of over 300 million euros financed with resources from the PNRR. This is a A result that is anything but obvious, which deserves applause above all when compared with the difficulties of the previous decade. In those years, in the substantial inattention of the institutions and of the social partners, significant European resources were decommitted to due to the failure to start the works".

"The port system, in its various articulations - noted the president of Confindustria Napoli - is a reality extremely complex. It requires specialized knowledge and a overview, because its operation affects directly on the balance of logistics and, consequently, on the competitiveness and economy of the territories. First as vice-president and today as president of the Industrial Union of Naples I have participated in numerous meetings of the partnership to get to know this reality more and more deeply, which still retains enormous untapped potential. It is also For this reason I wanted to personally maintain the delegation at the Port. With the president Eliseo Cuccaro and with the secretary general Giuseppe Grimaldi we have, as the Industrial Union, a constant and fruitful comparison. Now, however, - he specified Genna - the time has come to open a new phase: relaunch major works and combine public investment A strong investment capacity of entrepreneurship private ".

"The main priority - specified the president of the Industrial Union - is the realization of the new Darsena di Levante, a project that can no longer wait. This is the most significant transformation planned for the port of Naples, now planned for 26 years, and which has led to public investments of about 200 million euros, capable of significantly redistributing the port spaces and functions. Its construction would make it possible to transfer from west to east, near the junction motorway, a significant part of the large vehicular flows that today gravitate around the city center. It would allow also to rebalance the approaches, which today are excessively concentrated in the area close to Piazza Municipio, contributing to the improvement of air quality and the relationship between port and city. The reorganization of port spaces would also make it possible to free up valuable areas to be allocated to the strengthening of reception services, in response to tourist tourism in continuous growth. The port of Naples records every Almost 11 million passenger transits, a value of little less than the approximately 13.5 million passengers at São Paulo Airport Capodichino. Unlike the airport, however, the port has much larger and more organized spaces for flow management. It is a piece of data that returns with clarity the dimension of the challenge. We follow with particular Attention is also paid to the path for the commissioning of the terminal containers of Levante and the work of the technical table activated by the Port System Authority, which appreciably identified a technical solution capable of safeguarding the presence of the operators of the energy hub".

"Precisely for this reason," Genna continued, "it is it is necessary to avoid any attitude or initiative that can further slow down the start of the Levante terminal. After years of waiting and planning, we cannot allow new procedural obstacles, postponements or conflicts jeopardise the full operation of a strategic infrastructure for the port, for the city and for the entire logistics system regional level. The technical solutions identified must be translated into quickly into concrete actions and the effective start of activities. These are elements that support a development project with repercussions very significant: over 400 new work units and substantial private investments that can be made in the short term. Yes It is an intervention capable of concentrating on a single large operates loans of a size comparable to the share allocated by the PNRR for the ports of Naples and Salerno».

"Public investments in recent years - he concluded the president of the Industrial Union - have made it possible to put and modernise an important part of the port infrastructures. Now we need to create the conditions so that This effort can be accompanied by a new season of investments private individuals. It is necessary to activate every initiative useful for simplify and speed up procedures, overcoming obstacles and slowdowns that risk slowing down development programs that are now that can no longer be postponed. For this reason, in the coming days, as the Industrial Union we will ask the System Authority port the opening of a discussion table. The goal is build together an articulated development program for the port of Naples, capable of mobilizing, alongside public resources, also capital and private business initiatives. The port can become one of the main drivers of economic growth in Naples and the entire metropolitan area. The conditions are there. We need to transform the still untapped potential into investments, work, services and development. Also on this front, as a Union Industrialists of Naples, we are ready to do our part".