Last reunion of the Harbour Committee of Bari before the birth of the Authority of Harbour System of the Southern Adriatic



Today, in the course of the , the president of the agency, Francesco Mariani, has traced the results of the last recent management of the authority, concluded ideally with the today's approval of the Relation Anniversary 2015, and that less recent one under its conduction to the rudder of the port of Bari, that 2005 are begun in December.

Between the results reached in 2015, illustrated in the report, the increment of the commercial traffic of about + 6.6% in the ports of Bari, Barletta and Monopolies that a total of 5.975.000 tons of goods has reached enlivened. The esteem for 2016, on the base of the consolidated data on 31 August, confirm the trend of increase with an ulterior increment of + 10.8%, that it would make at the end of the year to exceed the threshold of the 7.000.000 of tons of goods 2016. Determining for this result the strong increase of the traffic container, that it is increased of about +67% in 2015 regarding 2014 passing from 35.932 to 60.009 teu, and of another +27% in the 2016 regarding the year precedence with a total handling estimated to year-end of beyond 76.000 teu. Important also the data on the rotabili that to end 2016 could increase above all of about +5% graces to the more and more intense traffic of trailer on the line ro-ro of freeways of the Venice-Ravenna-Bari-Patrasso sea.

For how much it concerns to the results of the single ports in 2015, the ports of call of Bari and Barletta have followed the same trend of increase of the traffic goods with increments respective pairs to +8.8% (with a total of 5,07 million tons) and to + 6.7% regarding the year precedence. Instead the data for Monopolies it has recorded a decrease of about the -17% probably - it has explained the Harbour Authority - caused from the lacked consolidation new traffic that was managed in the year precedence, that it has brought back the total data to the medium values of the 2012/2013.

In chiaroscuro the data brought back in the report relatively to the number of passengers enlivened in season 2015, with a practically analogous data to 2014 for the quota ferries with beyond 1,1 million passengers, but in bending (- 34.5%) for the cruises, with a total of 368 thousand fleeting, that it has carried altogether to a reduction of the -11,5% of the traffic total that has been pairs almost 1,5 million passengers. Sundries - it has specified the harbour agency - the causes of such decrease, the first between all difficulties for the shipowners to in existence put an adequate programming of the landings place for effect of the problem of the transit of the great ships in the Lagoon of Venice let alone because of persisting of the political-environmental criticalities in the depositor oriental of the Mediterranean Sea. The authority has emphasized that the data for the year in course are however very comforting, that they make to preview for entire a 2016 increase of +15% about of the crocieristico traffic and +6% about of that of the ferries that, altogether, will allow to almost recover integrally the decrease of passengers last year. Still better they are the perspectives for 2017, with Costa Crociere whom the next summer its presence to Bari with neoClassica Costa will increase, using the port of call of the chief town of touched only region as Italian with home functions port.

The Harbour Committee has then approved of the arrangement and a variation of the budget of forecast 2016, necessary in order to deliver to the future management the opportune resources in order to face the next months of the year. The Harbour Authority has evidenced that the participation on the budget, approved of unanimously also with the favorable opinion of the College of the revisers of the accounts, has confirmed once again good state of health financial of the agency, with indices of efficiency and satisfactory abilities to investment, taken into consideration the limitatezza of the resources available also in the presence of a good quality of the offered services and rates and lower burdens of concession of the average.

Al term of the reunion all the members of the Harbour Committee, in representation is of the institutions that of the operators and the social forces, have thanked Marian for the great job carried out in these years.