MSC provides the Calabria cruise ship as a floating hospital

The MSc will put 'at the disposal of Calabria to be used as a cruise ship as a floating hospital emergency linked to the epidemic of coronavirus. The news, communicated yesterday to the mayor of Gioia Tauro, Aldo Alessio, who had asked the owner Gianluigi Daponte for the initiative, is applauded by the unions. “We want to express - write the regional and territorial secretariats of Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl and Ugl mare - public appreciation for the adhesion of the owner of MSC, Gianluigi Aponte, to the proposal of the mayor of Gioia Tauro, Aldo Alessio, to provide a cruise ship in the port of Gioia to be used as a hospital for the Covid emergency19. Thanks to the availability of Aponte, therefore, as was done in Genoa, even Calabria will be able to use a cruise ship with approx 1000 beds to deal with any emergencies. We expect - the unions conclude - that the President of the Santelli Region will express his assent soon ". The MSC group is already present in Gioia Tauro, where it controls the port terminal.