Difficult mobility and the absence of investments to improve it remain the main Achilles heel of Sannio: an area with excellence in the industrial and environmental fields, but with atavistic infrastructural deficiencies that make it difficult to promote its development. This is the photograph taken by the president of Confindustria Benevento, Oreste Vigorito, on the day of the annual Assembly. A framework on which, among others, the mayor of Benevento, Clemente Mastella, and the president of the Province, Nino Lombardi, also joined.
Excellent businesses, few road links
“Benevento has an endowment of motorways equal to 2% of the region’s total – added Vigorito – it has no direct connection either with Naples or Salerno”. Vigorito lists the excellences of the Asi areas of Benevento. Companies operating in sectors such as aeronautics, automotive, and mechatronics. And he goes on to talk about the important progress made in the sector of energy production from alternative sources, primarily wind power, in which the same company from Vigorito, IVPC, was a pioneer. «Today Sannio, where the first wind farm in Italy was built, is seventh in Italy for quantity produced from renewable sources and is the leader of an important ITS“ Energi Lab ”. It is a pole that plays a driving role in Italy ”, underlines the president of the Samnite industrialists. But the same territory still shows many signs of fragility such as population density, per capita GDP (a per capita income of 15,900 euros compared to 27,000 in Italy), employment (in the last 10 years the Sannio has lost 16,000 jobs), the road endowment index. Vigorito points his finger strongly on the delays in the implementation of the Zes.
High speed Naples Bari
Ciro Napoli, Project Manager Naples and Naples – Bari itinerary, who spoke during the public assembly in Benevento, confirmed that by 2027 the works on the railway line will be completed. “Almost all the planned works are in progress – he says -. The last lots are missing for which the assignments will be completed by this summer. Meanwhile, feasibility studies are underway for two logistic terminals to be connected to high speed which will be based in Irpinia in Valle Ufita and in Sannio in Ponte Valentino ».
The meeting was also attended by Piero De Luca – Pd Deputy, Giuseppe Romano, Commissioner of the Campania SEZ, Edoardo Ronchi, president of the Sustainable Development Foundation, Vincenzo De Luca, president of the Campania Region.