Transit Trieste

published on Colors Magazine

We are in Triestre the city that for centuries has marked the edge of the ever-contested European Frontiers.

The crane outlines set the stages for the perpetual drama of moving machinery. There in the harbor, characters from all over the world wave their stories together with an international language gesture, lights and sound-signals, cueing the crossing of traffic through the harbor entrance and marking the movement of transports equipment.

Ships from allover the world dock in this harbor every hour of the day and of the night. Unloading and loading operations are performed as fast and efficiently as possible to allow the ship to take sail to its next destination, while an army of truck driver mostly from the Middle East and West Asia, restlessly moves about the harbor preparing for their next trip. Truck driver traveling in and out of the harbor are addressed by passport number or customs papers code such as 34BD227893, TEH536432; or by ticket number 34 NY101 or cargo ID UHE37. To economize on food they shop together, cook their own dinner on a camp stove and set their dinner table on old cardboard boxes.

The theater of life is now open The samovars are heated to prepare the tea, friends have gathered, provisions have been inspected and the tables have been set. The fragrance of the dinner envelops the parking lot and permeates the streets of the harbor. Someone calls the family on his cell phone someone takes on a few glasses. Allah is far away THE536432, 34BD227893, 34 NY101 e UHE37 and many more like them hidden in the shadows of this parking lot, began to have a name and raise before us to tell their stories of mans.