Investment of 40 million euros in order to create a connection directed between the Tuscany Dock of the port of Livorno and the railway net



This morning, in occasion of the inauguration of I climb over of the knot to high speed of Castle, to Florence, has been undersigned a protocol of understanding between Italian Railway Net (RFI), Tuscany Region, Province, Municipality and Harbour Authority of Livorno with the objective of the strengthening of railway infrastructures to service of the Dock Tuscany of the Leighorn harbour port of call and the realization of a connection directed between the port of Livorno and the Rome-Genoa line, Pisa side.

Draft altogether of an investment of 40 million euros, of which 33 million put on from the Region. With the understanding, undersigned from the president of the Region, Enrico Rossi, from the managing director of RFI, Michele Mario Elia, from the president of the Province, Giorgio Kutufa, from the city council member to the Program and the public works of the Municipality, Bruno Picchi, and from the president of the Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti, the signers has engaged itself to sign within next 15 December an implementing convention in order to define the necessary actions to the respect of crono the program of the participations, that they will have to be completed within 2015, while the first verification on state of the art of the work will be made within the next freedom of expression.

In the course of the encounter it is remembered that the times are tightening and must be respected also in order to avoid that 33 million the Region, that they are at the expense of the deep ones of the Regional Operating Program of the Tuscany, is diverted elsewhere. Remaining seven million the project will be poured by RFI and already are inserted in the program contract 2007-2011 undersigned between the same Italian Railway Net and the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports.

"It is an agreement - it has emphasized the city council member Rossi - crucial for the economy of the Region. With the connection directed between the Dock Tuscany and the Tirrenica, Livorno can aspire to assume a central role in the Mediterranean. I thank the Harbour Authority, than in these months it has been engaged so that it was arrived today to the signature of the agreement".

"After job months - the president of the harbour agency Gallanti has confirmed - we have reached an important result. The agreement in being allows us to exceed the problem of the breach of cargo to Calambrone and to create a connection directed between the Tuscany Dock and the railway net. In this way the goods will be able to reach more fastly, and with greater the market, economies of scale of Alta Italia".