Today the Management Committee of the System Authority Port of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas has approved the Addendum to the update of the Organic Plan of Ports (POP), document required by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport as part of the assessment of the application submitted by the Port Authority for the transformation of the current Port Agency, the company Founded in 2017 for the administration of work in the port, the retraining and relocation of workers in redundancy of terminal companies, in the subject provided for Article 17(5) of Law 84/94 intended to provide temporary port work to companies pursuant to art. 16 and 18.

The Addendum integrates the Plan with a detailed analysis of the actual work needs of the port of Gioia Tauro, element essential to allow the System Authority to plan their strategic choices in the field of work port department. In particular, the document includes the preliminary investigation on traffic trends, port labour demand and the evolution of the days of starting work. The analysis will make it possible to assess in a more precise manner the employment and staffing needs of the Agency, laying the foundations for its economic and financial sustainability and for a planning consistent with the evolution of traffic and port activities.

"The planning of port work - explained the president of the Port Authority, Paolo Piacenza - must necessarily start by a concrete analysis of the dynamics of traffic and actual needs of the port. With the Addendum to the Organic Plan of the Ports, let's take a further step to equip ourselves with a tool Knowledgeable, capable of guiding future choices on the organization of work and employment needs. Joy Taurus is a port in continuous evolution and its growth must be accompanied by an adequate port work system, sustainable, flexible and able to respond to needs current and future operational operations".

The Management Committee also approved the resolution on the start of the process aimed at promoting and progressive establishment of one or more Communities Renewable Energy (REC) within the port system of the Port Authority. The initiative gives concrete implementation to the guidelines already defined in the Energy Planning Document and Environmental Law of the Port System (DEASP), approved in 2024, which identifies among the strategic measures precisely the promotion and establishment of Renewable Energy Communities in the port sector. The aim is to define a coordinated model by the Port System Authority, which may be divided into several energy configurations, depending on the of the characteristics of the individual ports of Gioia Tauro, Crotone, Corigliano Calabro, Taureana di Palmi and Vibo Valentia and the painting current legislation. The path provides for a central role for the involvement of port system operators. They will be therefore consultations have been initiated with operators, concessionaires, terminal operators, public bodies and other potentially through meetings and workshops in the various ports, as well as the acquisition of expressions of interest and contributions useful for define the future configuration of CERs. By 31 December 2026, consultations with the port community. The subsequent phases, which may also developed in 2027, will be dedicated to the definition of the legal form and statute, energy configurations, of any facilities and methods of access to the services and incentive mechanisms provided for by the legislation.