The Port Authority is no longer Spinelli’s friend, on the contrary it requires him to vacate two areas for which he has the concession, by Monday, denying him renewal and extension. One of the two areas in question is that of the Ex Carbonile, for which Spinelli, Toti, Signorini and Piacenza are under investigation for corruption. According to the prosecutor’s office, Spinelli had occupied the area without having yet obtained the renewal and Piacenza, knowing about the issue, had done nothing.
According to Spinelli’s lawyers, this would have happened due to the criminal investigation in which he is involved, as the Palazzo San Giorgio official herself, Antonella Montano, also confirmed.
Spinelli, however, doesn’t agree and appeals to the TAR. The entrepreneur’s lawyers Giovanni Gerbi and Ilaria Greco explained that the subsidiary Genoa Port Terminal, holder of a concession until 2054, extends for over 160 thousand square meters between the Inglese and Massaua bridges and the Ethiopia and former Idroscalo bridges. But the 27 thousand square meters of two areas, Ex Carbonile and Nbtc (Nuovo Borgo Terminal Container), whose concessions expire on 17 and 30 June 2024, are indispensable for Gpt’s activity. They also specify that they have requested in advance of upon expiry, the renewal of the aforementioned concessions. The company would have requested it on 27 June 2023 for Nbtc, asking for “assent” until 31 December 2056 and on 31 August 2023 it would also have done the same for the Ex Carbonile area. This can be learned from the precautionary decree with which the TAR rejected the request for suspension by the terminal operator of the documents.
The company was therefore confident in the positive response from the Authority, but this did not happen. On May 23rd the eviction injunction arrived, motivated by the failure to renew requests presented in due time, which would be 120 days before the deadline. A sign that the tide has changed after the investigation.
