Merlon (AP Genoa): many Italian ports preview development plans of hundred of million euro without some cover financial institution



Today the Harbour Committee of Genoa has approved of new the Operations plan Triennial one that previews investments for beyond 400 million euros and a dozen of great projects between new harbour and infrastructural works. The plan leaves from the programming of the works of biennium 2012-2013 traguardando 2014, year in which the works previewed from the enforced Portuale Town development plan would have to be concluded all. The investments are shared in about 170 million in 2012, 145 million in 2013 and 55 million in 2014.

The infrastructural priorities of the three years - it has explained the Harbour Authority - regard seven withins. First it is that of the repairs and the shipbuilding for which the POT beginning from previews a radical participation of adaptation and potenziamento the dry docks until the participation to the realization of the so-called upset to sea of Fincantieri.

According to within which examined from the operations plan it is that of the so-called one Slowly of the Iron, that is all those propedeutici participations to the potenziamento of the railway infrastructure in the genoese port of call between which the particularly restructure of the port of call goods outside wall with the new electrification of the railroads; the requalification of railway infrastructures of connection to the Campasso Park; the new railway connection to the harbour basin of Voltri; the restructure of some important manufactured.

They follow the complementary works to the completion of Bettolo Descent with the ecological platform, the new system for the liquid bulk and the project bunkeraggio to Descent mineral Oils, etc is continued with one series of participations of requalification in the area of Sampierdarena between which important work to Libya Bridge, Somalia Bridge, English Descent, Massawa Descent, Derna Descent, former idroscalo, and the adaptation of some features of outer dam between which that relative one to the mouth of West.

An other within is that relative one to Polo Passeggeri and particularly to some participations on Bridge of the Thousands and above all to the propedeutiche works to the realization of the project Van Berkel to Parodi Bridge.

An important within of participation of the Harbour Authority is also that of Voltri, with the project of the new viaduct, with the requalification of some large squares and the works to protection of the walk to sea.

The Program for the Logistics is another of the withins of participation of the POT with the modernization and the elevated extension of the harbour one, distripark and the car park. Always in logistics topic, the area of Sestri West, as well as by the relative participations to the field of the shipbuilding, will be interested also by the realization of the area of pause dedicated to the road haulage.

The programming of the works of the three years is completed with the realization of the Designated Take-off point, the program of maintenances, the modernization of the technological systems.

Emphasizing that all these participations will allow, together with all this that are realized in the years precedence, to upgrade the offer of the port of call, the Harbour Authority of Genoa but has evidenced that "unfortunately by now the chronic sparsity of resources - in absence of structural reforms that allow with the Harbour Authority of being able to count on the autonomy financial institution - does so as that important projects as the sixth bathtub or the project of the Freeways of the Sea could be realized only appealing to the partnership with the private ones".

The specified Harbour Authority that the objectives of the agency in next the three years are the editing of the new Portuale Town development plan, for which will be started a distance participated and shared with the city, let alone the drawing up of the Social Budget, the optimization and the simplification of the harbour operational cycle, the environmental energetic plan, some strategic European projects for the infrastructural development and the program for the logistics and the transport.

"The objective that realistically we must be given - has commented the president of the harbour agency Luigi Merlo - it is to conclude the works that are on and to start great strategic participations that they conclude the implementing phase of the enforced town development plan. In relation to the works to start, we have received recently the news that the State Audit Court has unblocked the financing of the viaduct of Voltri for whose realization we are preparing the contest. But this triennial plan gives the go-ahead free also for the upset to sea of Fincantieri and constructs the conditions for the sixth bathtub".

"In this political and economic phase - it has continued Merlon - it is difficult to proceed to the ignition of mortgages. Task but is opportune a more general reflection on the planning and the realization of the harbour works in the Italian ports of call. Many of the Italian ports - it has found - preview development plans everyone of hundred of million euro with a temporal horizon that in some cases goes beyond the three years without via it is some cover financial institution to support them. If we make the sum of all the plans we arrive to some billions of euro: is credible all this, but above all it is a corrected employment of public resources? If not there is responsibility by all, it is on a national level that to single port, these works risk not to be coherent with the real perspectives of market".

"It is necessary to have the responsibility - it has concluded Merlon - to interrupt the incorrect cycle of the ephemeral one and the dream books: the dramatic events that have hit the Liguria must serve from warning, our earth, but entire Italy is fragile and to take part on the coast lines will be more and more complicated and delicate therefore the pianificatorie choices will have to take into consideration elements that often do not belong to the tradition of the harbour planning. In this optical the new harbour town development plan will be oriented will offer to various scenes, heading a lot at environmental integration, energies alternatives, maximum I use of the existing space and strong resource to the innovation and the technology. I wonder if it are worth it not to rethink the dimension of the planning and giving in perspective the objective to arrive to a regional harbour town development plan that does not chase a theoretical market but that it holds account of its real evolution, being conserved the legitimate autonomy of every port but within a unitary pianificatorio order, from our region a great example could come truly".