The port of Gioia Tauro is out of the National Plan of Logistics

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The port of Gioia Tauro is out of the national logistics plan. This was denounced today the Secretary General of ICFTU Calabria, Paolo Tramonti, FIT CISL and the Secretary of Calabria, Hannibal Fiorenza, explaining how a careful reading of the policies of the Plan, which was drawn up and approved by the Advisory General for Road Transport and Logistics and Transportation Commission presented in January 18 last, there is the margin of Calabria and its transport system.

Fiorenza Sunsets and note how these policies can be seen that the FIT-CISL Calabria complaint for some time, namely that "the axis of the port and integrated logistics, if nothing is done with speed and determination, will grow in ports and on North-Central regions of the country so much so that the logistics platforms, it identified and planned - state Sunsets and Florence - are the logistics platform in the North-West (Voltri Genoa, Savona-Vado Ligure, La Spezia), the logistics platform in the North-East (Trieste - Monfalcone, Marghera-Venice with the freight of Padua, Verona, Trento and Cervignano etc..), the logistic platform of the Centre - North (Port of Livorno - Ravenna which tie in closely with the ' interport of Prato and the logistics area of Parma, the node and rail freight village of Cesena and Bologna), the logistics of the central platform from Civitavecchia and Ancona. "

While on the southern side - go on the two trade union representatives - the logistics platforms are configured: on the Adriatic coast of Puglia with the system (port and its inland port of Bari, Taranto and Brindisi) on the Tyrrhenian coast to the port of Naples and its rear port system East of Naples and logistical support and operating Nola (Freight) and Marcianise (with the railway station)."For the port of Gioia Tauro - watching sunsets and Florence - the plan is limited to say," as well as expanding the rail link, is defined as the operation of the rear port logistics area adequately served by delaying all the remote links " Plan for the South "."

"So - Sunsets and Fiorenza stress - not good ',' the future of the port of Gioia Tauro - clarify the unionists - it passes by its inclusion in the new" National Plan of Logistics. " For today is the lack of adequate logistics platform big handicap for the competitiveness of port of Gioia Tauro, the whole distribution process of goods handled. "

The representatives of ICFTU and Calabria Calabria FIT CISL recall the decrease in volume of container traffic in recent years from the port of Gioia Tauro, "compared to a substantial increase in the volume of goods transported and handled in the ports of the Mediterranean (+10% compared to 2009) - explain Sunsets and Florence - the port of Gioia Tauro, in 2010, with 2,851,261 TEUs has confirmed a further decline (-0.2%) compared to data of 2009 (2,857,440 TEUs) already well below (about -18%) in volumes handled in 2008 (3,467,824 TEUs).In a context of substantial growth in the Mediterranean port - stress - the port of Gioia Tauro is the pole, confirming the known disabilities which hamper its competitiveness in the new "Mediterranean Port System".

Sunsets and Fiorenza confirm the deep concern of the CISL and highlight its commitment to keep the spotlight by drawing attention of enterprises, institutions and all interested parties and institutional policies and urging them to "take responsibility to immediately retrieve delays and resources needed to sustain and develop the strategic port in the "Euro-Mediterranean System '."

"The meeting between President Joseph Scopelliti Region and the Minister of Economic Development Paul Romans, which took place in Rome last February 23, though still tentative - they say Sunsets and Florence - was an important and positive fact. The same can be expected due to the condition that trigger an appropriate "inter-institutional" recognizes the role of social partners.A table need to address and to give the course priorities such as investment planning, implementation of functional integration of the port infrastructure in the production system and transport, domestic and international tax concessions to attract investment and create industrial sites » .

"The port of Gioia Tauro - Sunsets and conclude Fiorenza - is, beyond rhetoric, one of the few certainties in the present and a great opportunity for growth and development of Calabria and as such should be supported at every level."