Agreement of collaboration between interporto of Bologna and the port of Livorno



Today the Interporto of Bologna and the Harbour Authority of Livorno has signed an agreement of collaboration focused on the development of the traffics goods, containerized and not, between two infrastructures, on the promotion of the relations of traffic between Spain and Italy and these last and countries of the Africa North, let alone on the sharing of the initiatives and the solutions adopted with respect to the railway and intermodal services.

The understanding has been undersigned to conclusion of an encounter between the president of the Interporto of Bologna, Alessandro Ricci, and the commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, to which it has participated, between the others, the general manager of the Interporto, Zeno D' Augustin. During the reunion the necessity is put in evidence to manage a detailed analysis of the traffic flows in order to characterize the actions to undertake to the aim to strengthen the intermodal relations and, in particular, it is emphasized the requirement to optimize the management of the railway services favoring a joint action Harbour Interporto-Authority.

Interporto of Bologna has explained as the partnership more complex joins in a strategic optical very that it sees the interporto engaged in widening the borders of its area of reference and in coupling infrastructures in a position to feeding its role of concentrator of traffic flows to throw again towards the Europe North. "Emilia Romagna - he has observed Alessandro Ricci - is a region with strong supported logistic potentialities from strong local politics who goes there favoured with individual strategies of wide breath where the market guides you towards logical functional of cooperation within more and more flebili geographic borders". "He is undeniable - he has added - that initiatives of that sort very simpler if would be inserissero in an adequate context of national planning and online with the fast changes of the market, but in the wait is sure very more productive the technique than to put to factor common own specializations in order to amplify of the effects".

"The Interporto of Bologna - Giuliano Gallanti has declared - is one of the more important platforms of Europe, demonstrates its abilities to it to create a driven in net of railway connections with some between unwinds to it fundamental of the European market: you see Zeebrugge in Belgium, you in the Netherlands see Rotterdam and Patrasso in Greece. Here, we must succeed to insert Livorno inside this vituous circuit. But in order to make it we must first of all resolve the problem of the railroads cargo. They serve new infrastructures and serves a unitary management of the service of maneuver and railway traction from the station of Calambrone to the single harbour terminals. Today there are too many subjects that concur to the development of the maneuvers cargo, with a useless increase of costs also in head to the same terminalisti".

One of the obliged step aerobics in order to improve the intermodalità of the system port-interporti - according to the commissioner of Port Authority - is that to verify the possibility to not only inside manage the customs inspections of the port, but also near the railway port of call Calambrone: "only so - Gallanti has explained - we will be able to think to rationalize the transport costs, being eliminated the dead times that become so much more at least efficient and fast are the controls".

Gallanti has said that integrated intermodalità, fast customs inspections and development of the international traffics "are three objectives important in order to reach which - it has explained - we count also on the contribution of customs and the interporto of Guasticce. With they and with the Interporto of Bologna we will try to in concrete terms realize an extensive logistic platform that makes of Livorno the point of main connection with the markets of central Italy and with those of northern Europe and center oriental".

"Bologna and Livorno - the president of from Bologna Interporto has confirmed - can truly contribute to create a multimodale corridor between infrastructures, being favored a logic of net cooperation that previews also the involvement of Guasticce and Prato". Curls have emphasized that "from Bologna port of call work still too much in a regional dimension, also having, if it is only thought to its geographic localization, an international vocation; this - it has concluded - will be for us the future: to transform a vocation in a fact and obviously the very functional collaborations to such objective come all".