The apulian portualità does not find peace


The Harbour Authority of Manfredonia claims its right to the survival and to its independence in it confronts of the Harbour Authority of the East that governs the ports of Bari, Barletta and Monopolies. The harbour agency of Manfredonia, the whose organizational structure it is constituted by commissioner Gaetano Falcone and from the added commissioner Guido Capurso who administers it from 21 January 2008, has started throws again 11th May of the apulian port of call emanating a ban of contest for the planning and execution of the intense activities of extraordinary maintenance of the paving of the docks, the net of digestion of meteoric and black waters and for I reorder of the sottoservizi in the commercial port, for an amount to body of 9,8 million euros. I throw again that it follows the confirmation to end 2011 from the government guided from Mario Monti of the appropriation of 30 million euros for the port.

Between the first supporters of the assertions to the survival and autonomy of the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia figure vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, Antonio Leone, apulian and exponent of the Party of the Freedom, than yesterday has promoted an encounter with prints on the topic “the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia: today and tomorrow”. Lion has rejected to the hypothesis of cancellation of the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia and the widening of the jurisdiction of the Harbour Authority of the East to the which resurfaced port sipontino as a result of the presentation, 29th February, of a interrogation to the government from the deputy pidiessino Michele Bordo in order “to speed up the closing of a which lasted commissariale phase beyond six years”.

Answering some days before to the interrogation on the nomination of the organisms of the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia, the undersecretary to Infrastructures and the Transports, Guido Improta, it has remembered that the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia, instituted by the law 24 Decembers 2003, was placed in liquidation with presidential decree 12 October 2007 for deficiency of quantitative requirement of the goods enlivened regarding the parameters from law 84/94 and that, adverse such I decree, was proposed resorted near the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT of the Latium from the commissioner and the added commissioner of the harbour agency of Manfredonia and successively from some harbour operators. With sentence of 1° December 2011 the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Latium had judged illegitimate the abolition provision and adverse such sentence was proposed appeal to the still hanging Council of State.

“The jurisdictional events - the Improta undersecretary has explained - have unavoidably conditioned the initiatives of the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports times to define the composition of the ordinary organs of the agency. In fact, in slope of a definitive judgment on a provision that arranges the abolition of the agency, it would appear incautious from the administration to proceed to the nomination of organs so important in order then to be eventually forced to declare of the destitution in force of a sentence that totally recognizes the validity of the theses on the abolition of the same agency. Whereby, at last, legitimacy of the cited one is recognized presidential decree 12 October 2007 - it has specified Improta - will be proceeded to extend the limits of administrative division of the Harbour Authority of Bari to the port of Manfredonia, as had from the enforced one I decree 19 November 2007, that is, in case the Council of State considers to confirm the motivations of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Latium and therefore it decides for the maintenance of the agency, provvederà to start the procedures for the constitution of the previewed ordinary organs from the law n.84/1994”.

“In the within of the initiatives of rationalization of the expense in head to the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports - it has concluded the undersecretary - one of the areas of criticality characterized is without a doubt the reduction of the number and the requalification of the Harbour Authorities; therefore the issue raised from the interrogating member of parliament could however be usefully faced in the within of the procedures of review of the public expense”.

Michele Bordo has emphasized that, with such retort, the government has been declared “oriented to cancel the Harbour Authority sipontina in order to extend administrative division of the Authority of the East also to Manfredonia, like already asked opportunely from the local authorities and the Region Apulia”. The deputy of the Party Democratic has raised the price the dose accusing the Harbour Authority of Manfredonia of being “a ghost agency, that he manages the most modest traffics and he wastes public money in order to pay the ndemnities of commissioners of partitica nomination in charge from many years without they have completed a single action in order to improve the operativity of a Commanded strategic infrastructure for the entire one”.

From part its vice-president of the Chamber Lion has defined groundless and not truthful the affirmations of the appointed colleague Bordo and has evidenced that Manfredonia does not run the risk to lose its Harbour Authority. Lion has emphasized the potentialities of the port of Manfredonia and sped up the local authorities and trade associations to make team in order to promote the increase of the activity of the port of call.