The Savona-based Funivie spa will go into liquidation. The shareholders’ meeting of the company, in fact, ordered the liquidation of the company, with effect from 1 January 2022, “due to the objective impossibility of achieving the corporate purpose”. In other words, the transport, carried out under state concession, from the port of Savona to the Italian coke of Cairo Montenotte, of approximately 600 thousand tons of coal a year e 150 thousand of other bulk, moved first on conveyor belt in an underwater tunnel and then on trolleys, by rope.
The stop after the flood
The service stopped in 2019, when the flood caused the fall of some pylons of the cable car and prevented the cable car from working. Since then, the transport has been carried out daily by truck (and a clear increase in pollution).
Paolo Cervetti CEO of Italiana coke and so far also of Funivie, was appointed liquidator of the spa. “The company, albeit in liquidation – he says – will still be able, but necessarily for a short time, to continue to manage the complex and residual shunting activities, management of the Cairo railway junction and management of the depot park”.
67 workers go to the checkout
«We hope – continues Cervetti – to be able return the company compendium to the state property, which we have been keeping responsibly for almost two years, still intact, including the 67 workers currently in force (who are guaranteed the recently arranged redundancy fund) “.
This, concludes Cervetti, “in the hope that, at the same time, the recent parliamentary and administrative initiatives which appear to have been undertaken, can give continuity to the effort made so far and a new course to the cableway activities, completed the restoration of the line by the administrator of the public works ».