Conferenza stampa Pasqualino Monti

It starts with the instrumental use of wiretaps that have no criminal relevance because they are excerpts from wiretaps concerning investigations from three years ago, closed investigations that were concluded. They take only those snips, they mix them, just as in other cases. Later I will go into detail, I will demonstrate it to you by reading you passages of phone intercepts, and they write them by putting together the complete opposite of everything, taking the first lines and adding them to the last, creating a mix completely unrelated to the reality of the wiretaps themselves, of which I am proud. Everything I have done was done in the general interest. Now, the first to demand justice regarding all the complaints I have filed against certain individuals is Pasqualino Monti himself. It is I myself, and I forcefully demand that justice, all the more because in the truth of the facts, what has happened and what is happening to me is totally illegal and must be punished. Today, whoever touches or has touched certain interests linked to those consolidated powers in this territory becomes the object of what is happening to me. And since this productive reality, this city, Civitavecchia in particular, deserves more and deserves to leave this context of personal and family powers, it is time that someone knows that I do not give up in the face of this filth.

They took some scraps of conversation in which it was said that Monti Pasqualina considered the Costa Concordia an environmental bomb. Well, they took the scrap of a phone conversation, but then I put into the same phone conversation what I actually said. So it was said that Monti does not want the Costa Concordia because it is a mental bomb, a terrible nonsense. Monti said: 'I am the president of the port. Since the nearest port, let's say, to Piombino, if Piombino were not ready, and Civitavecchia, I find that Civitavecchia should host the operations of the Costa Concordia.' However, I point out that I represent the port, not the private companies, and I have no contact whatsoever with the private companies that want to work by choosing the port of Civitavecchia and making an offer that, as per the phone intercepts, turned out to be about double that of the private companies that took the ship to Genoa. Someone tried to make people believe that I am against work. The demonstration of how attentive I am to the policy of work in this port, and later we will come to other issues, is precisely given by the presence here today of the Port Company, which is a beneficiary, working daily and representing a medal for the port of Civitavecchia, working daily on that traffic that has been guaranteed to allow the company to recover its turnover compared to a terrible crisis that also hit our port, as it hit the rest of our country, and which even led, in a period of extraordinary crisis, the Port Company to make permanent hires. Ask CIMP and ask the company how many men work today on the automotive traffic, Pizza Connection here.

Excuse me, I open and close the parenthesis because I am truly ashamed. 100,000 pages of wiretaps, and I even had to protect myself with legal counsel. They take ten lines in which the tariff of the Port Company, the Emel discount, 800,000. The Port Company is called upon to make a discount from 0.38 to 0.30, a mediation also with the skill of the president, in agreement with the president of the company, settles at 0.35 for the work. And what do I do? I who have given heart and soul because I believe in the Port Company. Someone wants to set me against the Port Company. You disgust me, you should be ashamed. And also those who, despite the facts, believed these nonsense should be ashamed. There are other excerpts in which I say: gentlemen, the future of Civitavecchia cannot be about dealing with emergencies; it must be about planning its future in a scientific manner. If we want a dry dock, we must build it. Wiretap: 'let's build a dock that brings end-of-life ships.' I am more for work, so that traffic arrives, so that development and economy come, so that employment comes to our port, and I will continue to do so as long as the minister calls me to do it. When the minister tells me I am done, I will have finished my experience with Civitavecchia. I don't want any medals; I was well paid to do what I did. I did it with my heart, with all possible commitment, and the results are the direct consequence.

They should be ashamed, not so much those who do it as a job and are paid for it, but those who in their life are called to Parliament to do something and come to tell me how jobs are given, or come to exploit work by saying '300', spitting on 300 jobs, lying knowing they are lying. But when have you given 500 jobs, 1000? I remind you that our port community—come and compare the numbers—that our port community has grown in the last 5 years like no other port in Italy in terms of employment. The truth eventually comes out; if not today, tomorrow, and history will tell.

The Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port System Authority, the traffic of the first semester of 2016 shows Civitavecchia +6%, Gaeta +35%, Fiumicino -13%. There is an overall growth of 8.5%. Why Fiumicino -13%? Because Fiumicino today has exclusively, in its entirety, the oil traffic. So, Total. You know how things are, how things went. Moreover, since in the past someone spoke precisely about TotalErg regarding the possibility of an appeal to the Council of State for a suspension, I want to say to those who were not worried about the future of Civitavecchia but wanted to enjoy a possible defeat of the port authority: that case has been concluded, and the appeal presented by TotalErg was rejected by the Council of State two days ago, in the first 6 months of the year.

8.18 million tons of liquid goods, oil. Honestly, between you and me, a hose is a person. Now, I don't want to justify where the 2% is lost, but one must understand the type of traffic. When we talk about liquid goods, we talk about a hose, we talk about fuel, diesel, jet fuel, we talk about oil. So clearly, the tower sends into the oil pipeline, and clearly sends less because perhaps on land, in the distribution in Lazio, less fuel is needed because less is consumed. So total liquid goods -2%. Traffic increases by 88%, 500,000 tons more handled. Dry goods grow: bulk +12%, general cargo +4%, 10% goods transported in containers +9%. The number of ships embarked and disembarked — I recall that the port of Civitavecchia handled 12,000 containers in 2011, today it exceeds 70,000. Those who today say 'I have no work, I have no employment' should not worry about who is working and worrying about giving them work, but should worry about those who in a disgusting way are making sure to deny them a future. Fertilizers: +39%. Solid bulk: 65,000 tons more, +24%. Chemical products: +14%. Number of dockings: +18%. Line passengers: +28%. Total vehicles: +21%. Vehicles accompanying passengers: +80%. New cars: ... cruise traffic: 84.58 units as of June 30, that's 166 cruise passengers fewer than 2015. I'll give you a reason: it's 166 fewer passengers, I'm sorry, but they are compensated by that +18% that, thank God, we are doing on the motorways of the sea.

I wanted to reason with you and I ask you to make a clear distinction so as not to overshadow the numbers. I always ask you, for professional ethics, to separate the two issues. I am convinced, I repeat, that that site, for where it is positioned, remembering always that here one should understand who brought the privilege C, so the concession. Now, the concession as of today: there is a bankruptcy trustee, there is a court. I cannot, let's say, revoke the concession; it's not up to me, I am in... I repeat. That is, now the expression of interest privately: someone will express it to the trustee who is working, who has already convened the body that is the creditors' committee, called the creditors' committee, and said to the creditors' committee, 'Look, there is this proposal, so I am carrying it forward.' And this is the expression that, in full autonomy, the bankruptcy trustee of the court of Rome, regarding Civitavecchia, is carrying forward. I clearly do not get involved in those things for obvious reasons of legality. However, certainly, when I am the president of the port, I want to understand this time because now I am responsible. It is not 2007, I was not responsible in 2007. Today I am responsible. As long as I am responsible, I want to understand what the industrial plan is of whoever makes that offer.