It is very reassuring indeed to learn that the breakfast meeting opened yesterday in Rome by Minister Frattini to take stock of the Unicredit Project, aka "Superporto regional Trieste - Monfalcone" was used to break the deadlock and has registered the interest of Maersk, the largest global player in container traffic. Eivind Kording, CEO of Maersk, confirmed the strong interest of the giant multinational Danish megaterminal future management of the container (the new terminal at Monfalcone + doubling of Molo Seventh Trieste). Would have already decided to integrate it on the front rail, and already Frattini promises to present the draft at a meeting of the Council of Ministers in mid-November. Moreover, it would already decided to appoint a commissioner for the project, despite the absence of a legal and regulatory framework (national and regional) that currently allow this type of solution.
Then there is another factor, significant for those who are closely following the evolution of the so-called Project Unicredit (we believe that journalists should be more careful categorized), which covers the ballet numbers already begun before the project is actually sketched: it is started with the sounding of a prophecy superporto 3 million TEUs, heedless of the concerns of those who stated (and continues to report) that the figure is completely unrealistic. Today it is said that Maersk is bringing a half million TEUs (three are at the half, but still too many), mostly diverted from the ports of northern Europe.
The same Maersk, which is involved even on a draft plate logistics in Vado Ligure (Savona and Genova), is the announcement in the nineteenth century and "Shipping on line" of 1 October, would have difficulties to ensure the 750,000 containers per year are necessary to secure financing platform Vado Ligure and should therefore already woven into negotiations with Cosco (giant Chinese container) to be able to fill the spaces in the design of the new quay.
At this point, some questions naturally arise: Why did the first amateur company in the world can not fill the needs of the Ligurian terminal (Tyrrhenian Sea) and easily be able to move one million and a half containers on Monfalcone and Trieste? Why Cosco, which is probably the biggest competitor of the Danes, should enrich their work and its contribution to the Maersk container own?
At the risk of again being accused of defeatism that we would like to sponsor some of the enlightened superporto (ministers, politicians, bankers, businessmen, trade unionists, journalists), sure they understand more than we do, we'll explain a little 'why numbers of these dancers. Maybe we can convince that the project exists and that it is not, as we continue to believe, words and, above numbers (TEUs) in freedom ...
Trieste, 12.10.2010
Igor Kocijančič
Regional Councillor PRC - SE
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