In the port of Genoa the societies SECH and Saint George Terminal ask delay for 40 and 30 years of the respective concessions



Others two of the main terminalisti that operate in the port of Genoa have introduced request in order to obtain delay of the expiration of the concession contract. After the demand introduced in recent days from the group Joints ( on 16 September 2015), in fact the requests introduced from the Terminal Containers Port of Genoa - SECH and from the Saint George Terminal are published, that they have introduced question of extension of the duration of the contract respective for a period 40-year-old and 30-year-old.

Terminal Containers Port of Genoa - SECH manages the container terminal to Descent Health and is concessionary of areas and buildings for 184 thousand square metres until on December 31, 2020. In the 22 years of management by SECH the terminal - the society in the request of delay of the concession introduced to the Harbour Authority evidences - is passed by an enlivened traffic pairs to 250 thousand teu in 1994 to a volume pairs to 455 thousand teu in 2014. and the company has carried out investments for a total of beyond 69 million euros.

With respect to the future investments announced from SECH in the document, the specific company that are planned valued investments "in order more than 120 million euros, attended to next the 30 years to the aim to allow some I re-enter in the 40 years demanded for the new term of concession". Relative draft of investments to the single terminal of Descent Health.

In fact in request SECH it remembers to make also part with a quota pairs to 35%, currently through controlling own Seber Srl but shortly in via direct, of the Bettolo Consortium beside the consorziata Marinvest of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that it stops a quota pairs to 65%. "The Harbour Committee, in the sitting in date 30 April 2014 - specific SECH - has deliberated of giving sent to own president to manage the substitutive action of relative concession to the called marine state property compendium as Which dropped Terminal Bettolo in favour of the Bettolo Consortium" and is previewed - continues the company - "than said action it is finalized shortly with duration already deliberated to all 2045. It achieves some - SECH finds - that in immediate prosieguo consorziati the Marinvest and SECH they will have immediately to program the necessary investments for the preparation of the new terminalistica portion, investments also purely structural and estimated altogether to the state in about 130-140 million euros, with quota at the expense of the moment at least 40-50 million euros; besides this - the terminalista company specifies - SECH will be able to operate currently on such new compendium "in extension" regarding the compendium in its concession (Which dropped Health) also with own staff (v. sentence REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Liguria n. 747/2012)". SECH evidences therefore that 120 million euros of previewed investments are relative to the single terminal of Descent Health, with exclusion than will be invested in the terminal of Bettolo Descent, and this - the company specifies - against a state property concession with expiration in date 31 Decembers 2020, investments and engagements regarding which SECH observes to consider of "having to have some "certainties" between which, priority - the company emphasizes - that which already since this moment necessarily is redefined the final term of own concessorio title".

Also the current maturity date of the concession which released to the Terminal Saint George (TSG), society of the Gavio group that work a multipurpose terminal on the docks of Bridge Somalia and Ponte Libya (on these last ones through the temporary association of enterprises with Ignazio Messina & C. with concessorio title until the date on December 31, 2035), is fixed in order on December 31, 2020. The society has introduced request in order to obtain a delay of the expiration of the contract that returns it concessionaire of areas and buildings for 61 thousand square metres to Somalia Bridge until year 2050.

In the request introduced to harbour agency TSG 2006 remember to have beginning from invested in the port of Genoa 34 million euros, of which 23,4 million in period 2011-2014 and to have last year increased the enlivened volumes of traffic carrying them to beyond 3,6 million tons, with an increment of +105% on 2011. The company has a plan of ulterior investments that previews expenses for 83,4 million euros in machinery, equipment, crane and means of large square and for other 23,4 million euros in structural participations for the improvement of the areas in concession and for the recovery of currently not usable areas. Moreover a steady increase of the volumes of traffic with consequent increment of employee staff (+27%) and of indirect staff CULMV (+48% is previewed).

In the request the company signals among other things "that in bordering ports to that of Genoa, and in particular also in terminal live competition with that managed from TSG, is received requests of renews somewhat of state property concessions for temporal intervals consisting, also to how much consta - the society of the Gavio group emphasizes - against remarkablly inferior investments to those which TSG is engaged".