Today in Livorno, during the performance of the second day of the seminar held at the Lem (Livorno Euro-Mediterranean Foundation) on "Livorno Port Gateway, the development opportunities and cooperation with Morocco," the president of the Port of Livorno, Julian Gallanti, and the director of the Agence Nationale des Ports (ANP) of Morocco, Nadia Laraki, have signed a collaboration agreement based specifically on the development of the competitiveness of ports and, in particular, the definition of infrastructure solutions and the establishment of joint tables technical object of which two chains: the refrigerated and the market for new cars factory.
"The agreement between Morocco and Livorno - said Gallanti - is framed with a view to cooperation in the development of markets of both countries.The collaboration between ports is not only important but necessary especially in a globalized environment, where the attractiveness of a project is defined by its ability to promote an identity of territory more and more macro-regional level. "
Stressing that the road towards the realization of full cooperation between ports is very bumpy and is now hampered by a competition without rules, Gallanti found that competition between ports, or even within a port must be otherwise regulated likely to be detrimental to the interests of the same country.
During the meeting scheduled for today, the second of three planned by the seminar, attended by the Under Secretary for Infrastructure, Bartolomeo Giachino, the president of Assoporti, Francesco Nerli, the leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate Transportation Committee, Mark Philippi, Vice President Confindustria infrastructure, Cesare Trevisani, and city councilor of Livorno to promotion of knowledge, Joan Colombini, president of the Port of Livorno has called for a revival of the role of the Port Authority by giving them "a political role and autonomy more ».Thought to be fully shared Nerli and Philips, for which no financial autonomy continues to cast a dark shadow of the provisional time announced reform of the law 84/94.
Welcoming the agreement between Morocco and Livorno, Undersecretary Giachino showed that "our future has two landmarks: Europe and North Africa. Italy - added - must continue to play its role as a hinge between the two continents does not want to lose more of the ports of the Northern Range. "
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