An ordinance of Court of Gorizia show the red light to the Fincantieri plants in Monfalcone e it seizes four areas intended for the sorting and storage of waste products from processing waste. In particular, these are areas where all the waste deriving from work on ships carried out on behalf of Fincantieri by subcontracted companies is collected.
The provision of the Isonzo court comes after the sentence of the Court of Cassation which expressed itself in favor of the initial request of the public prosecutor which, in principle, was rejected by the investigating judge. The proceeding was opened in May 2013 and also led to the denunciation of seven people, including officials and managers accused of illegal waste management.
The Carabinieri del Noe, who yesterday carried out the order to seize the areas, specified that production activity in the Monfalcone plants will be able to resume when the situation is regularized and the waste is taken out of the areas. The group specified that these are processing waste that is not harmful to health.
The company defines the seized areas as "strategic for the smooth running of the production cycle". And it has therefore decided to suspend the activities by stopping 4500 people between direct employees and contracted companies involved in the production cycle of the Monfalcone shipyard. Only plant maintenance workers, about 100 people, will be able to work. Furthermore, a press release states, Fincantieri will urgently take all appropriate legal action in order to obtain the revocation of this measure, which it considers particularly burdensome also due to the damage that the persistence of its effects could cause.
In the Monfalcone shipyard they are in construction of some large ships and a few days ago work had begun on the MSC Seaside. Orders in Monfalcone have also returned to the pre-crisis level of 2007. The reaction of Confindustria leader Giorgio Squinzi was immediate: “I would say that it is another Ilva case, another case in which it seems that companies do not want to operate in this village. And this is a particularly serious thing”.
