Request of the group Joints for the extension 40-60-year-old of the expiration of the concession with which work in the port of Genoa



As anticipated in recent days as a result of a clarification demanded from the president of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, to the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports in topic of delay of the harbour state property concessions, clarification as a result of which the genoese agency has announced that for giving of to maximum publicity and transparency it would have published for a period of 60 days the single advanced requests of delay from the terminalisti ( of the 26 agpsto and 2 september 2015), the genoese authority has begun the publication of such requests with that advance 21st July from the society Rebora Industries of the group Joints.

The group Joints, through the society Rebora Industries that object of a fusion for incorporation in the society is time Srl Joints, manages from 2001 Genoa Port Terminal (GPT) and is concessionary until on December 31, 2020 in the genoese port of call, for the exercise of terminalistiche activities (former art. 18, law 84/94), of areas and buildings for 149,325 square metres between former-Idroscalo Bridge West and Massawa Descent.

Rebora industries have introduced request, that it will be affissa to the white one of the Municipality of Genoa from on 19 September on 19 November next, in order to carry out infrastructural participations with connected delay of the concessoria expiration for the duration of 60 or 40 years, according to the participations eventually authorized. In particular, precise Rebora Industries that the limitation of the maturity date of the concession to a duration 40-year-old is relative to the hypothesis "in which the new Portuale Town development plan was not approved of that allows the realization of the filling of English Descent".

In the request it is evidenced that last year Rebora Industries have enlivened in the terminal a traffic pairs to 366.169 teu, with an increment of +23% on 2013 and that on 31 December the society has carried out investments for beyond 38,2 million euros. For 2015 it is previewed a traffic pairs to about 400.000 teu (in the first five months of the year is recorded an increase of +16%) and within 2019, on the base of a medium rate of growth of the field of the +4-5%, an increment of the traffic until about 480.000 teu is attended with consequent progressive saturation of the terminal.

On the base of such forecasts Rebora Industries a project of optimization of the current storage capability and handling has elaborated let alone of widening of the areas and docks useful to tackle to the natural increase of the market and to acquire ulterior quotas traffic. Such plan of enterprise operatively previews a development of the activity of the genoese terminal with an increase of the traffics and the occupation, reaching to a annual handling pairs to teu and a 610.000 force job of 232 units regarding current the 150.

In the request Rebora Industries it explains that in 2014 it has not been able to satisfy ulterior questions of traffic for 100,000 teu that - emphasizes the company - in case of realization of the participations indicated in the enterprise plan, they represent instead a perspective of sure increase for the future years.

The enterprise plan includes a plan of investments of 270 million euros (with 116 million in the first 12 years), of which initial investments for 67 million in harbour infrastructures, 42 million in parainfrastrutturali participations (transtainer shod - RMG) and 35 million in equipment (machinery, equipment, crane, means), to which they join with the plan of enterprise developed for a span of time 60-year-old - specify Rebora Industries - investments for beyond 126 million euros for the replacement of immobilizations and in order supporting the increment of the volumes.

In the request Rebora Industries it remembers that requests of analogous content "already are received in the ports of La Spezia and, more recently, Trieste with the consequence, among other things - specific the company - that is lawful to expect by the concessionaire a parity of treatment and a homogenous application of the law parameters; the same Harbour Authority of Genoa, moreover - it remembers Rebora Industries - has opportunely granted to the management of the Port of Voltri for a duration 60-year-old" and this - the society of the group emphasizes Joints - against parametrabili investments, in connection with the extension of the areas, to that object of the plan of enterprise introduced from Rebora Industries with the request. It comes moreover asked the reduction for the state property canons through deduction of the carried out investments.