the Harbour Committee of Savona confirmation the ok to the Harbour Authority for the purchase of 64% of the Interporto di Vado



The Harbour Committee of Savona has approved of the deliberation of acquisition by the Harbour Authority of the package of control of Interporto di Vado Spa (VIO), the society that manages the logistics center of Vado Ligure and that currently it is participated with 7.99% from the same savonese harbour agency that possesses 462 thousand sets in action of the company.

The operation previews the purchase of other 3,7 million common stocks of VIO, pairs to 64% of the share capital, currently stopped from society GF Portem Srl (CF Group - Orsero group) for a not advanced fee to 23 million euros. Remaining 1,6 million the actions of VIO are of Freeway of the Spa Flowers, controlled highway concessionaire from the Gavio group, that it stops 1,6 million sets in action, pairs to 28% of the capital.

The Harbour Authority has explained that the new deliberation is introduced to the Committee after the introduced normative variation from the Law of Stability 2015 that if of social participation by subjects publics it demands the criterion of "indispensability", modifying the normative principle on which era set up the voted substantially analogous deliberation positively from the assembly on 15 September of last year. The Committee restating the positive opinion therefore has newly given the mandate to the president of the Harbour Authority to perfect the buying and selling negotiation with a limit to the acquisition: the total sum will not have to exceed 23 million euros.

"The passage in Committee - it has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority, Gian Luigi Miazza - represents an ulterior guarantee care full legitimacy of our action the deliberating action will be sent to the State Audit Court before the definition of the real operation of purchase". "The objective - Miazza has restated - is to complete the development of the logistic and intermodal system. Operation VIO respects the normative opinions and answers to the indispensability criteria that demand the law: he is in fact indispensable to the perseguimento of own institutional purposes, the more important of which is to guarantee a "governace public one" to all the complex of investments that are coming true in the harbour within with to the center the platform of not only Go but".

The harbour agency has specified that "the VIO has in fact the areas that will be destined to the realization of a more complete and rational railway terminal, that it will be able to carrier language meaningful quotas traffic generated from the platform. The interporto of I go is moreover a central element of the transeuropea net of transport (IT TRY) being included in the directory of the nodes "approved of Core" from the European Council. The presence of the interporto in the adjacent areas to the port of call - it has explained the agency - allows to approach the more conspicuous part of deep that the EU puts on for the completion and the development of the net TRIES for the financing of the regarding participations the intermodal connections between port, interporto and the net of transport".

"We will be able - it has concluded Miazza - to improve the competitiveness of the harbour system of Savona and the Liguria; we will favor the increase of the traffics of the goods and will facilitate the intermodalità with railway connections that will transfer from the rubber to the railroads a high percentage of container. We will make to grow the commercial exchanges and therefore the occupation; we will construct to a harbour and logistic system with investments not only private publics but also. Factors that are the main pillars of the announced one, next logistic harbour reform and that Savona is already realizing".