“There is a real risk that the rules established by law 84/94 for the protection of workers and safety would not be respected”
Fiumicino (Rome) – Pd and CGIL say no to the project to build a large tourist port – which includes a berth for cruise ships in Sacred Island Fiumicino, included among the “essential” interventions that can be financed with the Pnrr. A meeting organized by the Democratic Party took place yesterday in Fiumicino which called into question the project which envisages, the unions accuse, management outside of law 84 which regulates Italian ports. The Filt CGIL of Rome and Lazio went on the attack, renewing the request for clarification from the institutions. ”We are worried about a project that has highly critical elements, starting from a concrete risk of failure to apply the Ports Law 84/94. There Fiumicino Waterfront, as executor and financier, and the Municipality of Fiumicino itself, proposer and implementer, have to date presented a technical and economic feasibility project which does not clarify and does not overcome our doubts”. The national Democratic Party is also on the same wavelength, sending a message through Davide Gariglio, head of the Transport Department of the Democratic Party. “It is unthinkable to allow the construction of a commercial port that does not comply with the rules regulating port work and navigation safety provided for by law 84 of 1994. It would represent a terrible precedent, capable of undermining the structure of Italian ports”.
In short, there would be a more than real risk of creating new precarious jobs, devoid of rights and protections, precisely because they are outside the system of rules that Law 84/94 guarantees.
There is also a firm no from the regional Democrats, as explained by Marta Bonafoni, regional councilor and coordinator of Elly Schlein’s national secretariat: “The Democratic Party, at municipal, regional and national level, is committed, alongside the citizens of Fiumicino , to prevent a pleasure port project from being transformed into a port for large cruise ships with the stroke of a pen”.
