The Harbour Authority of has signed an agreement with the Interporto of the Central Tuscany of Prato



In recent days the Harbour Authority of and the Interporto of the Central Tuscany of Prato has signed a protocol of understanding with the objective to improve the competitiveness of the system port/to interpose to you and, more in general terms, than to strengthen the intermodal logistic system of Italy center-northerner.

From the operating point of view the understanding, undersigned from the president of the harbour agency Lorenzo Forcieri and from the interportuale president of the company Angelo Pezzati, will lead among other things in the promotion of a service of rail shipment with the institution of shuttle trains between the port breaks and the interporto of Prato. Moreover it will be worked in combined way for the optimization of the railway draft La Spezia - Pisa - Prato - Bologna, in has gone that in return, to the aim to strengthen the ties of logistic nature between the harbour system of Alto Tirreno, the interportuale platform of the Italy center and the adriatic depositor.

Harbour authority of and Interporto of the Central Tuscany will be engaged also to jointly carry out a work of political sensitization in every context on the opportunity of use of the system iron in the transport of the goods and to search partner constituted by ready railway operators to carry out a service of transfer of goods and container.

"We are constructing - Forcieri has declared - a driven in net of relations with the main ones to interpose you of the east center-north of the Country in order to support the intermodalità and to strengthen connections between port and retroporto, also in relation to the perspectives of increase of the traffics. A New contained objective also from the Slowly National one of the Logistics managed from the government whom it pushes to implement the use of the transport goods on iron. A within in which our port is already competitive on a national level".

"Our port of call - spezzina has remembered the president of the harbour authority - enlivens 30% of the traffic total on train, against an average national that is of about the half. A already extraordinary performance that we intend to ulteriorly develop until to arrive to 50%, contributing to lighten the pressure on the net of street transport, online with the trend of other European Countries in the discouragement of the emissions of co2 in the field of the transports".

For the port of the Tuscany represents one of the main markets inland of reference (15% of the containerized trade in/out) is for geographic position and road and railway connections, are for the logistic platforms of which it is equipped that the shunting and the distribution of the goods in all afford Italy. In particular, the Interporto of the Central Tuscany with its 700,000 square metres of surface, a logistic platform of 83.000 square metres, with six railroads of length everyone of 650 meters and a efficient connection with the train station of Prato represents one of the platforms intermodal platform better equipped for the arrival, the departure and the shunting of the goods.

While past friday the president of the Harbour Authority of, accompanied from the managing director of La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), Marco Simonetti. it has welcomed to the Maersk Seville, portacontainer from 8.500 teu of the Maersk Line, Danish company that after years is returned to scale from Liguria port newly.

Draft - it has emphasized Forcieri - of "an important event. I am satisfied - it has added - that so a prestigious operator has chosen our port. This means that the reached efficiency and competitiveness more and more are recognized to international level. And the engagement for our part is that to work in way more and more which convinced in order to realize the previewed necessary works from the Portuale Town development plan, in order to allow with our port of call of being able to express all at best its potentialities".