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(ANSA) - GIOIA TAURO, MARCH 30 - The Port Authority of GioiaTauro is distributing ten thousand face masks and 200 containers of disinfectant gel to the port degliscal communities of its competence. They were donated by the company Suardi spa of Bergamo, as a sign of concrete and direct proximity to the workers of the ports of Gioia Tauro, Crotone and Corigliano Calabro. The Authority itself makes this known.
"In recent weeks, in fact - it is written in a note - the Body, led by the extraordinary commissioner AndreaAgostinelli, has put in place every possible action to ensure, in the most timely manner, the supply of the 'Personal protection devices', to be delivered port companies and, through them, their workers.
The operation was successful thanks to the sensitivity shown by Guglielmo Suardi, managing director of Guardi Spa in Predore, in the province of Bergamo, operating in the Gioia Tauro area for some maintenance work within the terminal, which took over the inter-supply , delivering the DPs to the hands of the extraordinary commissioner Andrea Agostinelli this morning ".
Specifically, these are disinfectant gel and facial masks that comply with the contents of circular no.
3572 of the Ministry of Health, adopted on March 18, in the matter of derogation / simplification of the authorization procedures for the production of such devices, valid for the duration of this specific emergency period, which will be distributed in the ports of jurisdiction at the request of the cluster until stocks are exhausted. "The objective - it is written in the note - is to proceed to an equitable distribution for the port interacommunity, guaranteeing, however, the priority coverage of the requests for the benefit of the port workers. In this way, the carrying out of the working activities inside will be guaranteed. of the port, in the collective productive interest but, above all, the health of workers will be protected. The supply of PPE is only one of the points of the opinion that is preventive for the spread of the contagion in the port area that the Port Authority has prepared and that the operator immediately shared with the social partners ".
The terminal operator MCT, concludes the note, has so far maintained full employment even at the cost of a decrease in its productivity equal to about 40 percent.