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From the next month to May 2012 the port of Livorno will be opened to the city
In program a series of free initiatives between which guided tours to the terminals, the ship yard Benetti Azimut and interporto Amerigo Vespucci
October 11, 2011
To Livorno the fifth edition of the manifestation "Opened Port", the project of opening of the port to the city that aimed to facilitate the acquaintance of the main economic engine of the territory, will hold from the next month to May 2012 with a series of free initiatives between which guided tours to the terminals of the Leighorn port of call, to the ship yard Benetti Azimut, the port of Capraia Isola and interporto Amerigo Vespucci let alone the discovery of the future of the port through the instruments of programming of the Harbour Authority (from the Triennial Operations plan to the Portuale Town development plan) and the development of articulated critical investigations on sometimes little clear concepts or ideas, as the logistics or the "Green Port".
The project is moreover proposed to diffuse the harbour culture leaving from the young people, to involve the harbour workers and operators in an operation that creates a sense of belongings to the harbour community and to promote the culture of safety and the quality.
"Today - the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti has commented, introducing the initiative - the ports must be more and more accessible, visible and attractive, it is necessary an imaginative effort that it goes beyond consunte the strategies of promotion". "I wish - it has added - that with Open Port the citizens can rediscover truly everyone own port, seeing it not only as the main one flies economic of the territory, but also as a made truth of people and soft values, light values, in fact".
The project is promoted and organized from the Harbour Authority of Livorno in collaboration with Tuscany Region, Municipality of Livorno and Centro Risorse Educative and Didattiche of the Municipality, Municipality of Collesalvetti, Municipality of Capraia it isolates, Harbour office of Livorno, Agency of Customs, Provincial Scholastic Office of Livorno, Society Port of Livorno 2000 and Society "Tourism and cruises", Interporto Toscano "To. Vespucci", Stella Maris Association of Livorno.
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