The sole director of the company does not have the reputation of a spendthrift. Last March 23, in Manfredonia, an Apulian appendage of the Gargano, to found the "Green Port Italy", he paid the treasury just one thousand euros. His partner is no different. To control 60% of the team, she paid the "beauty" of 1,500 euros. A total of 2,500 euros for an unknown and historyless company with one ambition above all: to "take over" the port of Arbatax, an arm out to sea in the Ogliastra hinterland.
Manfredonia & Arbatax
At the Apulian Chamber of Commerce they write everything down: tax office via Stella 40, Manfredonia, province of Foggia. The entrance to the restaurant is anonymous, walls devastated by humidity, an aluminum door, a sort of basement on the ground floor. From March to today, Viviana and Antonio Francesco Prencipe, the former born in 1989, the latter in 1967, have not yet found the time to pay up all the ten thousand euros envisaged by the share capital. In the meantime, however, in record time, they have presented an application to manage for a four-year period none other than port operations on behalf of third parties at the Arbatax port. A request as anomalous as it is mysterious, given that the port of Ogliastra has already been covered for some time by that service of loading, unloading, transshipment, storage and movement of goods and any other material. A landing in Sardinia that conceals a plan unknown to most, deposited last April in the offices of the Port Authority of Sardinia. Eloquent and shocking documents that we have come into possession of. A plan as explicit as it is superficial, devoid of any support capable of certifying what was declared in those papers. They make no secret of it: the Apulian landfall in Sardinia is linked to the wind power business, both on land and at sea. They write it bluntly: "In support of the technical, operational and organizational capacity of the applicant, we inform you that contracts have been signed for the handling at the port of Arbatax of an important number of wind farms, some already being unloaded". Statements as approximate as they are surreal given that to date no new wind farms, either land or sea, have been approved. However, the Apulian wind in Sardinian land and sea seems to distinguish the entire mission in the Port of Arbatax. They add in the operational plan: "In addition to these plants, other contracts have already been concluded and launched with arrival in March 2023. We also have a commercial agreement for the handling of wind farms also for 2023, 2024 and 2025". But it's not over. The next paragraph is a declaration of war: «The port company is in the tender for the construction of an off-shore wind project in the Gulf of Arbatax».
The paddles in the Gulf
Statements that leave you dumbfounded, with a reference to "tenders" that do not exist on a procedural level, let alone an invasion of wind power in the gulf of Ogliastra. This statement on the wind turbines in the Gulf of Arbatax would be enough to render the request inadmissible, given that there is no project, not only approved, but not even presented.
Port yellow
The twist, however, happens in the advisory commission of the Port of Arbatax. Last June 28, most of the members reject the proposal without appeal, but the report drawn up by the Port Authority reports, instead, a unanimous approval of the authorization for one year to the Apulian company. As soon as the report is circulated, the reaction is triggered. With an official communication, most of the components put the truth on paper: we did not vote in favor of that practice. The Apulian yellow in Ogliastra is only just beginning.