And here it is necessary to consider three factors: the concession should have expired in 2056, thus justifying the return of the investments also employment made by the German company (more than 1200 employees 90% of which engaged in Genoa; Instead today, Hapag Lloyd manages to work and host his ships on about 5 °% of the terminal managed by the Spinelli group of which Hapag herself (well before Genoa was overwhelmed by investigations) holds 49%.
The second consideration relates to the sentence of the Council of State according to which this concession is nothing because it does not respond to the rigid criteria for using docks and squares on the basis of distributions and functions (various goods but only in a small part the containers) set by an old and exceeded port regulatory plan.
The third consideration concerns the inevitable intervention of the Prosecutor who at the request of a competing operator, considers the presence of the group holder of the concession Like an abusive occupation.
Three factors that summarized together produce only one question: but why should a great international investor invest in Italy and what protections do the institutions guarantee an investment that must provide for operational returns but also a return of the spent capital?
While in recent days the item of an ad hoc article had spread in the infrastructure decree aimed at healing and keeping investors at home which, as in the case of Hapag, have been the first customer of the port of Genoa for years, was wrecked under the fire of controversy and accusations of favoritism, today Hapag Lloyd who manages Terminal all over the world and has more than 16,000 people, Explicitly: in Italy we are there and we want to stay there also because we believe in the development of the Mediterranean and Genoa has been appointed manager of the Company’s Southern Europe but … we can develop the business, employment and grow only as long as we have reliable rules, regulations and contracts. Otherwise? To the reader, the answer.
“Hapag-Lenyd is the German shipment and logistics group listed on the stock exchange, with shareholders such as Kuhne Maritime, CSAV (South American compañia de Vapores), Qatar Holding, Public Investment Fund and the city of Hamburg, figure among the main international investors who have chosen-reads a note-and are ready to renew their trust in Italy. With employment levels. doubled from 2018 (today are 500) and with the company that has taken on the direct responsibility of 700 another workers in the port terminal and in the interconnected logistics, today we are ready-underlines Hapag -erd Italia-to reaffirm ours choices strategic. Precisely for this reason we seek the highest level of transparency in relations with the institutions, as part of our right and duty to protect our investments and, by extension, our shareholders “.
And in that clarification “law and duty” is synthesized what the mantra should be in relations between the Italian state, its institutions, and international investors.
“We are confident and confident in the excellent collaboration in progress with the Italian government, as a basis to overcome the misunderstandings, reactivate the concession and put the premises for the development of traffic through Genoa as well as for the growth of employment”.
Now the ball passes into the field of institutions, of the government and … even a little, coincidentally, in that of the judiciary.