“Genoa needs a truck park worthy of the name, not a lorry parking lot in operational areas, but a place where truck drivers on a break can find a refreshment point, toilets and everything needed for a dignified stop.”
This is stated in a note released by Marco Gallo and Leonardo Cafuoti of Filt Cgil the day after the concession was granted to Trasportounito for parking areas on the port elevated road and commenting on the recent announcement on the matter by Matteo Paroli, president of the Genoa port system authority: “In recent days, talk has returned to the truck park intended for heavy vehicles; this time, however, no longer in the so-called former Ilva areas of Genoa Cornigliano but at the state-owned areas authorized for container storage called Erzelli 2 (currently managed by the Spinelli Group, with a permit expiring at the end of the year, ed.)” the note explained. The area in question was identified as a truck park already in the extraordinary plan for port works drawn up in 2019 by the port system authority following the collapse of the Morandi bridge.
“Erzelli 2 is an area located in a strategic position adjacent to the commercial port and is used to supply drivers of heavy vehicles with empty containers needed for daily export operations, and within those spaces, the workers who are part of the depot operate” the Filt Cgil unionists however objected, asking for “the creation of a real truck park (perhaps expanding the current parking lot already present in the airport area) and not a lorry parking lot wherever it happens, and certainly not replacing it with one of the rare empty container terminals remaining in the area, which if dismantled would force drivers to commute to other regions to obtain the containers needed to carry out their daily work”.
The conclusion of the two unionists is that “the need for a Truck Park in Genoa is beyond question and indeed Filt has long been urging its creation with all interested parties, from institutions to employers’ associations. The need, however, is to identify a true ‘Centre Routier’ and not a simple parking lot with spaces for heavy vehicles, but a place where those who find themselves staying in the city do so not in makeshift areas but in spaces duly equipped for hospitality”.
