Appeal of the Federation of the Harbour Operators of Porto Torres to the institutions in order to answer to the crisis of the portualità



In an open letter sent to the local institutions, that we publish below, the Federation of the Harbour Operators of Porto Torres has introduced some suggestions to the aim to answer to the crisis that grips the harbour port of call of the Sardinian city.

Such crisis, caused from the impact of the economic recession on the traffics of goods and passengers, is aggravated to local level from recent developments negatives in the industrial field: by 1°th July - the portotorresi operators have explained - the system for the production of ethylene (cracking) of the plant of Porto Torres of the petrochemical society Europe Polymers of the Eni group is stopped. Not draft of the usual put into effect periodic arrest warrant for maintenances of varied nature - they have specified - but of the permanent interruption of the production: if therefore in the precedence producing by other sites of the Eni group stopped the lacked production on the spot raw materials were replaced with external supplying of and/or on the market, with the consequent maintenance of the correlated marine traffic to the productive cycle, now the definitive stopped one of the cracking has as immediate consequence failing of the entire marine transport present to the wharf liquids. The harbour operators have remembered that in July about 20-30 ports of call the salaries recorded in the semester precedence have been reduced to 4 or 5 and that such is time the maximum number of the landings place to the wharf.

The Federation of the Harbour Operators of Porto Torres has emphasized that the turritano port of call from has always founded its structural bases on the certainty and the chemicals guarantee of the minimal and constant traffic of and oil helter-skelter and that the fixed costs of the harbour services up to now have been shared in proportion to the number of total ports of call of the entire port, commercial and industrial, number to which the wharf liquids contributed with about 500 landings place per year. The tugs, for example - they have found - damp own investments mainly with chimichiere, the liquefied gas tankers and the oil tankers and so also the antipollution service. Organic the occupational ones of the harbour services, which antipollution note, mooring, boats, towing and withdrawal refusals, are currently all determined the proportions in consideration of such traffic. The marine agencies and the experts for the assessment amount/quality of the cargo re-enter they also between the categories that give such arrest warrant perhaps endure an irrecoverable damage.

Wishing that the new initiative of the Matrica, joint venture between Eni and Novamont that previews the realization of systems for green chemistry (production of monomers and biodegradable lubricating oils from oils not modified natural vegetables) in the productive area of the turritano port, all the staff of Europe Polymers can reabsorb, the Federation of the Harbour Operators of Porto Torres has wondered that he will be some of the attache's to the relative services to the marine transport. Not v'è certainty, neither tantomeno indications of maximum - they have explained - on which will be the traffic of ships (express in number of ports of call anniversaries) when the new system goes operatively.

The Federation has found that to the current state, for some years, in the Sardinian port the ferries of line will remain about eighty only and about commercial ships tramp (coal, bulk several/special pieces and fuel oil, butadiene and acrylonitrile) and it has wondered, therefore, with which new marine traffic two million tons of goods of the Europe Polymers will be replaced about: if in the near future it will make it the Novamont and - even if so it were - in the immediate one which will be the possibilities to survive for the attache's in the harbour services.

According to the Federation, a hope is constituted by the immediate start of the so-called "coastal warehouse". To replace quickly, without interruption, the traffic cancelled with other, equivalent for number - they have observed the harbour operators - is the only way in order to allow the survival of the entire system port. In case contrary - they have restated - we would not have ourselves to be astonished of the fact that marine agencies that have made the history of the city of Porto Torres definitively go in liquidation and lascino without job tens of employees, dispersing a patrimony of acquaintances and professionality never more ricostituibile, than the harbour services they reduce their organic and their equipments of naval means to the bone compromising the harbour operation in the periods of peak of the traffic, than the costs for a port of call they increase in exponential way for the little remained ships, than less and less they will have interest and convenience to call you, that the port loses definitively any concorrenzialità with regard to the other isolani ports of call and Mediterranean, than the Harbour Authority it is suppressed and even accorpata with that than Cagliari and that the infrastructural investments follow other routes and desert Porto Torres still more than they have made up to now.

The Federation has emphasized that such damage will involve also other systems of the field which those legacies to the admiralty law, harbour job, assurance, logistics, shipbuilding naval, marine general staff, naval search, international transportations, marine social security, certification and naval classification and that, when this will happen, the disaster will be irrecoverable total and.

The Federation of the Harbour Operators of Porto Torres has concluded asking all the interested parts to strive without delay so that the active Eni group immediately the coastal warehouse on the base of the tanks already available and works uninterruptedly in order to create to Porto Torres a Mediterranean center that movements at least three million tons of oil by-products.

Al Mayor
Avv. Beniamino Scarpa
To the City council member Public works, Public and Private Construction industry, Practicability, Portualità, Transports and Urban planning
Mr. Angelo Acaccia
Al President of the Commission Practicability, Trasporti and Portualità
Mr. Massimo Piras
and to all the Members of the same Commission


The Federation of the enterprises that operate in the industrial and commercial port of Porto Torres, composed in constituent phase from 17 companies with organic directed a total one of cira 250 attache's, thanks Mayor Scarpa, the Acaccia City council member and the President of the Massimo Piras Commission, let alone all the members of the same one, for on 17 November last the summoned audition having for object the crisis of the portualità of our city.

Since "Scope of the federation is to represent to the competent organs and the public opinion the requirements and the infrastructural deficiencies of the state property withins, to monitor the policies of maintenance and development of the harbour system and to stimulate the dialogue and conflicting in the occasions of acceptation or the refusal of entrepreneurial initiatives of local within, representing meanwhile own opinions and own suggestions in merit", we intend to formalize to You all, synthetizing the expressed opinions already in commission, which it is our thought and which our suggestions.

It is corrected to put into effect the harbour town development plan as soon as possible as unavoidable instrument for any future entrepreneurial initiative: with certainty it must be known what is possible to make in our port and where to make it. We wish an involvement of our federation in phase of drawing up and not a notification of the action to things already made! A critic is constructive if in a position to improving a provision, otherwise its sterility transforms it in useless controversy.

We are in favor of the combined development of the various varieties of harbour traffic, think that it does not exclude the other, also because the harbour within is decidedly wide and in a position to satisfying the different demanded of offer of services. We think that fleeting the relative activities to the traffic, crocieristico and diportistico, in order to amplify to the maximum their potentialities, must be concentrated in the commercial port and eventually to develop themselves in the east zone of the city, that to greater tourist vocation, that not compromised from the degradation of many lotteries of the industrial area and that the goods unitizzate, those on rubberizing and the solid bulk they must find aimed at of handling and storage in the industrial port, that "ASI" in order to intend to us.

He is obvious to that many others aspects of the portualità must be faced, but we choose to proceed to little ones passes, for single initiatives, in order not to fall, or to be dragged, in that perverse mechanism which, infinitely increasing the implications of a problem, defers “never” the beginning of a its possible resolution. We are convinced in short that a complex issue, decomposed in the several factors that compose it, reduced to the minimums you finish, frights less in facing it, but, above all, evidencing the single distances to follow, it facilitates its resolution.

All that premising, but, to our warning exists 3 initiatives which, if shared from part Yours, must be immediately and without hesitation covered in order to check the inexorable decline of our port of call:

To take part near the Harbour Authority so that individuals in the within of the commercial port, dries affording, a dock to dedicate to the cruise ships and the ships from diporto (maxi yachts) in transit, privileging bordering spaces to the Aragonese tower. Pier ASI certainly does not invite the Shipowners/Commanders to repeat the port of call and, moreover, such a experience, disclosed between the professionals through effect “tam tam”, it concurs to cancel our port also from the future programming of other tourist operators;

To take part near the Sardinia Region and the Ministry of Transportation so that they satisfy the coming demands for traffic on rubber from the territory in the director Porto Torres/Genoa, currently diverted on the port of Olbia/Golfo Aranci. To such fine a resolution of the Tirrenia/CIN event and an official position would be favorable in times breviums and realizes of the Saremar: both the create positions of stall we consider are in good part responsible for the situation of “mono connection of Tirrenia line” with which we find ourselves to cohabit from half November.
Also to insist for the activation of a line Porto Torres/Livorno that is able to give back to our territory the flows of traffic, goods and passengers, by now from decades decentralized in favor of the portualità of the zone oriental.

To take part, with Province and Region, so that ENI concentrates near the local plant, therefore upgrading them to the maximum, the productions and the activities survivors after the arrest warrant of the craking, was also putting off resources from other even benefitted Mediterranean sites from the local closing of the cycle of ethylene. A convenience by ENI in such sense, consequent is certain to the best one uses of the wharf liquids, which would allow the amortization of the fixed costs on a very greater number of ships.

All and the three proposed options are attivabili, some immediately others in times breviums, and are answering to this that asks the market.

These options would give dignity to each of the companies of the marine section, as they would allow to earn with own job how much necessary one in order to exit from the redundancy fund, in order not to enter own to you, in order to pour the contributions and the salaries to own employee and in order to honor the contracted debits. On the other hand it would make to save to province and region resources to dedicate in other fields.

In a moment of deep crisis, which it is what we are crossing, the progettualità is most important, but indispensable it is the requirement to plug up the hemorrhage in course.

The 3 cited points are the needle and the thread that we deliver to you: to You to decide if to save the life or to leave to us us to die bled to death!

Harbour operators Porto Torres