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Signed the convention for the connection of the port of Livorno to the high railway speed
The understanding has been undersigned from Tuscany Region, Railroads, Harbour, Common Authority and Province
December 14, 2011
This morning to the Municipal Palace of Livorno the operating convention for the realization in the Leighorn port of the railway works of potenziamento of the railway connections Livorno Pisa has been undersigned finalized to create a connection directed between the Tuscany Dock and the net of Alta Velocità/Alta Capacità through the line of Florence with a previewed investment of 40 million euros, of which 33 million distributed from the Region through deep European and seven from Italian Railway Net ( on 1° December 2011).
The convention, that it defines tasks, roles, times and responsibles for the realization of the works, that they must be completed within the first semester of 2015 and rendicontate to the European Union within the end of the same year, is signed, to the presence of the alderman to the Agreement of Program, Bruno Picchi, from the technicians of the Tuscany Region (Stefano Agati), from Italian Railway Net (Gianfranco Mercatali), from the Harbour Authority of Livorno (Massimo Provinciali), from the Municipality (Gianfranco Chetoni) and the Province of Livorno (Stefano Simm).
"The action undersigned today - the city council member Bruno Picchi has declared - is most important to the aims of the competitiveness of our port of call. To this it will follow, in the next few days, the agreement of program for escavo of the Scolmatore (and the realization of the armed river mouth), stiff safety element to eliminate the current difficulties due to the sand fill of the port".
"That signed today - the new general secretary of the Harbour Authority has confirmed, Massimo Provinciali - is a fundamental agreement, than it joins inside a perspective of increase of the port. I have informed the managing director of the Railroads, Mauro Moretti, that I have come to Livorno with clearly the attempt of giving a contribution under this point of view. We confide, therefore in the full support by FS to all those projects that can contribute to make of our port of call one of the best railway ports of the peninsula".
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This morning to the Municipal Palace of Livorno the operating convention for the realization in the Leighorn port of the railway works of potenziamento of the railway connections Livorno Pisa has been undersigned finalized to create a connection directed between the Tuscany Dock and the net of Alta Velocità/Alta Capacità through the line of Florence with a previewed investment of 40 million euros, of which 33 million distributed from the Region through deep European and seven from Italian Railway Net 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
