The long season of state shareholdings, with large factories swarming with blue-collar, is now a faded postcard. Good for a museum of industrial archeology. But to raise the anchors are also corporations that have blocked the gates of their production sites yesterday, with France's Saint Gobain, with Tubighisa Cogoleto, today, Americans of Houghton, who are emptying the old plant in Val Polcevera. Sure, it took many decades by Sampierdarena times when crossed by a long series of warehouses, we have the title of Manchester of Italy. But only a few decades have elapsed since Genoa held a summit of the industrial triangle and the whole of Liguria, from west to east, was a balanced mix of activities related to the economy of the sea floor and solid industry.
Now the "great mother" industry, in regional analysis of the macroeconomic framework, seems on track to assume the role of Cinderella, in Liguria, only 13% of employees engaged in industrial activity. And, like rain in the wet, City, Region and Province had to cancel due to a tender suspicious, the Management Board Development Genoa public-private company whose mission is to initiate the reuse of old industrial sites. An alarming situation in the eyes of Liguria Confindustria and the unions that decided, for the first time, to march in ranks to restore light and compact breath in a productive increasingly suffocating (see Il Sole 24 Ore September 11). "Better late than never - says, with a touch of melancholy, Flavio Repetto, owner of the Novi-Elah-Dufour who, after pointing out in the eighties marks historic Ligurian confectionery industry, have pitched their tents in the nearby Piedmont investing resources in a factory at the forefront. "Better late than never - repeat Repetto - but the reality reported today by Confindustria and trade unions, was clear from a quarter century ago when Genoa was channeled to the decline, losing no less than 250 thousand inhabitants, and all the infrastructure nodes, which contributed to the de-industrialization, they were confined in hundreds of conferences and slogan in the election campaign. " Thus, Repetto has crossed the Apennines in the footsteps of Saiwa, which moved production from Genoa to Piedmont. And before long, will follow Andreina Boero, heir to an ancient lineage entrepreneurial Liguria, president of the paint factory, which is preparing to inaugurate a plant in Rivalta Scrivia.
The owner of the Novi-Elah-Dufour is also president of the Foundation Carige the entity that has control in the belly of the Savings Bank of Genoa, the largest bank in Liguria, led by John Berneschi. Streetwise banker and long-standing, Berneschi has sharpened the view over the remainder of the industrial landscape of Liguria. Aware that the depletion of productive assets, the bank would have relegated to a marginal role, he piloted the Berneschi Carige beyond the narrow borders of the region, acquiring branches in the richest areas of the country, the strongholds of the media and small business.
And the race to reverse the decline in the walls of the house, the president of Carige is engaged in on a pressing public administrators, central and local, to put the great works in the pipeline which is discussed years: third pass highway and gutter, in the head. "The Liguria - Berneschi says - it must break the isolation, recovery efforts and attract new blood through appropriate road and rail infrastructure that can be linked, in quick times, with the Po valley, which remains the heart of the hinterland." Railways and highways
braces. But airport. Difficult to attract resources in Genoa and Liguria when you are present in the system of international business with an airport that traccheggia floating on a water line on one million per year, or slightly more, of passengers handled. On this side is right, perhaps, time to turn the page. The Port Authority of Genoa, which has control of the airport operator, is issuing a tender for the privatization of the airport.
is the lack of infrastructure and efficient transport links with neighboring areas and with Europe was one of the reasons why the Great Escape from Genoa, in the latter part of last century, the business centers of some large companies, from Genoa, pulled the strings of production activities in Italy and spread throughout the world. The headquarters of the diaspora has had starring Ip Eridania, Piaggio, Mira Lanza and Americans of Ppg.
The long wave of industrial decline has not spared the other provinces of Liguria. "Starting dal'area Savona - remember Sergio Migliorini, Secretary Regional CISL - who lost settlements in chemistry, such as Acna Cengio and Agrimont of St. Joseph of Cairo, and has been scaling the pole and the car industries in the glass industry. " Regardless of the game, the outcome still uncertain, being played on the future of Ferrania. So that the governor of Liguria, Claudio Burlando, urged the intervention of Labour Minister Maurizio Sacconi. Despite the signing of two agreements aimed at relaunching the program, the company remains at the pole and finished with most of the workforce in layoffs.
Even the area of \u200b\u200bLa Spezia has had to deal with layoffs and divestitures as companies that have decimated the ex Ceramica Vaccari or small businesses like the corner of San Giorgio, once a prestigious white appliance made in Italy. It is a drastic slimming nuanced contours of the oil industry in the district of Imperia where names have disappeared from the scene as Berio, Sasso and Borelli.
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