Gioia Tauro candidate for the Polo Dri of the former Ilva: 7 billion of investments and 2,500 jobs. Urso: “Complete decarbonisation in eight years”

“In the project that we illustrated to the unions and local authorities, the amount of the necessary public investments and then, subsequently, private, to carry out the four dri hypothesized in eight years, is equal to about 6-7 billion euros with an occupation in the realization phase, of at least 2,500 employed as well as those who will then have to be used for the activity of the dri”. The Minister of Business, Adolfo Urso, said this today, in the visit to the port of Gioia Tauro, regarding the hypothesis of building the pole of the preridotto of iron (dri) of the former Ilva in Calabria as an alternative to Taranto, where the plants of the same ex Ilva are based. The first 2 dri specified Urso, “they will have to be made in the next 4 years simultaneously with the extinguishing of the first altherhorn in Taranto and the realization of the first two electric ovens, one in Taranto and the other in Genoa. Then – added Urso – the third dri in the following 2 years, when the second altherhorn and Taranto would be turned off, the second electric oven would be made, and the fourth dri in the next 2 years. Over eight years – said Urso – the whole steel plants of the former Ilva will be fully decarbonized “. Consider for the possible investment also came from the top of the Calabria Region, for which the Polo del Dri in Gioia Tauro” could find concrete implementation and an institutional context only in the hypothesis that Taranto was decided not to welcome the line. «The cold plate will be there when there is the terrestrial regasifier, which is a work that this regional government has very pushed. It would give us the opportunity to have a cold plate here capable of placing a district of agro -industry and frozen the products of agriculture – noted the president of the Calabria region, Roberto Occhiuto, on the same occasion -. The government, already a year and a half ago, declared this strategic work, so those who made it, could have the shock absorbed work through the adjustment of Arera. The regasifier – added Occhiuto – is important for us, strategic, and in order to attract investments to Gioia Tauro we would also be available to start with a re -enactor ship in the first phase. The port of Gioia Tauro is the first port in Italy for container numbers, it has made 4 million and 200 thousand containers, but the positive externalities for Calabria are very few. A port of transhipment does not generate wealth for Calabria. If this large logistical asset can be used to populate the retroportual area of strategic investments, which the government already has in mind to do, we speak of billions of euros in addition to that of national FSC already engaged for this activity, I believe it is a good thing for Calabria “.