the president of Confindustra Ravenna rejects the adopted strategies in order to safeguard the competitiveness of the city port



Yesterday taking part to Ravenna to the workshop on the topic "the management of the dredging mud. Strategic element for the development of the national portualità" the president of the association of the manufacturers of the city has launch sinks against the subjects premails to safeguard and to promote the activity of the port of Ravenna. The accusation is to have neglected of protecting the economic interests of the port, that they coincide with those of the city. Negligence to which now it would be being been trying to place remedy, but with determined delay.

If from a part the rebuke of the president of Ravenna Confindustria seems not to be express in confronts of the current management of the city Harbour Authority, that it is presided by 2012 by Galliano Di Marco ("in the past couple of years - has specified the president of the manufacturers, Guido Ottolenghi - are made many efforts in order to recover the lost time, guided from a renewed vision of the Harbour Authority"), from the other seems to call in cause the harbour authority directly as Ottolenghi has supported that consisting economic resources and organizational they would not be invested whereby necessary, but in the realization of works that would not have produced the waited for results.

Ottolenghi has emphasized that "the port is the first industry and the first employer of the province, but is less and less competitive in order to hold international the naval traffics of great tonnage". The decreasing competitiveness of the port of call is determined in the first instance by the delay in the effettuazione of the participations of dredging necessary in order to allow with the port to receive the great ships currently employees in the international traffics. "Today - Ottolenghi has said - we have therefore the urgency to deepen the backdrops in order to maintain - and to possibly increase - the attrattività of our port, in a race against the time in order not to see to vanish the deep ones obtained".

The president of Ravenna Confindustria has not limited himself to once again evidence the main factor of risk for the competitiveness of the port, but the reason has wondered for which it has been arrived to this point: "before the voices of the committees did get up of Not, than usually they arrive to the final beaten ones of a project - it has denounced - as we have accumulated this delay? I believe that it is honest to say - has explained - than are intentional many years because the Harbour Authority and the city arrived to giving priority to this topic. Meantime consisting resources, not only economic, but also of organizational and political engagement, have been employees elsewhere".

According to Ottolenghi, in fact, a determined action is not persecuted in order to safeguard the development and the competitiveness of the port, but rather it has been a waste of resources. "City and authorities - it has clarified - would have to always remember a simple business lesson: every enterprise must think to its future and find new producing or new services, but it cannot neglect the activities that it gives to eat every day. So it is well that the harbour community has studied in these new years ideas for the port, as the nautical district of, Marine or the development of the cruises, but has been badly not lend equal attention to maintain the port to the step with the markets, or also only to manutenere the backdrops and the docks that every year receive and send million tons of goods and that the city appoints to a job every day. The citizens - he has added Ottolenghi - would have to wonder and then to ask the institutions if the public funds and the energies for the new initiatives guarantee, at least in perspective, a concrete return for the territory. The district of the nautical one - it has accused the president of the manufacturers - has not come true, has absorbed many precious energies and years, but not many deep ones. On Duffle-coat I leave to others the judgment. The terminal cruises is operating, but 38 million euros have cost up to now and other 22 million euros are in programming for a marine station. It costs every year beyond 170.000 euros of money publics and in 2013 two the million about Venice or Genoa have received 97,000 passengers against".

"The priority given to the new topics - it has continued the president of Ravenna Confindustria - has left for too many years the development of the traditional traffics in second floor. The for the time being modest answer of the new initiatives, and the competitive degradation of our port in the goods traditional and the container, has revived in the harbour community and the institutions the attention to the importance to maintain and to increase the backdrops and in the past couple of years many efforts are made in order to recover the lost time, guide from a renewed vision of the Harbour Authority, and supported from all the involved actors. Such efforts - it has specified Ottolenghi - meet but with the fact that the little cases of overwhelmed available are full (mainly of escavi for the terminal the cruises), and that autorizzative oppositions various and uncertainties are in order to empty the existing cases and to create some of new. The passion for the quibble, the dialogue not always fluid between institutions, the legal bulimia of our Country has prepared the land for the oppositions of the committees, sometimes made of confuseed and honestly worried citizens, talaltra only from interests of visibility individual or worse than convenience. This happens to us while other Italian ports resolve, also in complex conditions as to Venice or Livorno, the topic of the escavi and while jurisdictions with a advanced environmental credibility to ours (also towards the citizenship) as the Dutch or the German, manage with much more efficiency and less complexity the sand of the dredgings, using it also with minors it wastes for the collectivity that at the end pocket wage always own the account of the conflicting norms, the delays and the refusals to assume responsibility. The sand of the dredgings is all things considered a useful and precious resource, perhaps and to call it mud does not evidence the positive value that it has. Also zones of the world in great expansion and with by now advanced standards of living to ours, as Singapore, recognize the strategicità of the port, invest ceaselessly in order to develop it and to improve it, with dredgings and fillings (the port of Singapore, that it covers thousands of hectares, entirely is constructed on the water with dredged or imported sands). Such experiences cohabit with high quality of the life, are to little kilometers from tourist and residential attractions and answer to the requirements of development in little month, while if we left tomorrow we would have the port only renewed in 2019. From we, instead picking the opportunity inborn in these processes - Ottolenghi has criticized - an excessive negatività is exalted, and they are not valued best the experience national or communitarian, neither the university competences that could transform the controversies on the dredgings in increase occasions".

"Mine therefore more than a contribution - he has concluded the president of Ravenna Confindustria - today he is a directory of questions, than the industrial woven one of our territory, and the citizens who depend some, turn you. You are in fact that you have the instruments and the talent in order to characterize I walk that allows to face in more methodical and less dramatic way the topic of sands of the dredgings, having to mind that it will propose itself with regulating regularity fintantoché Ravenna will be a port".