Gallanti: the port of Livorno needs a terminal for the cruises



The port of Livorno needs a terminal for the cruises. It has emphasized today the president of the Harbour Authority of the Leighorn port of call, Giuliano Gallanti, participating in the center of the agency to Rosciano Palace to the international seminary on the topic "the resource of the cruises for Livorno and the Tuscany. From the port to the city and the port to the organized territory" in the within of the European project "Seatoland".

Gallanti has explained that in 2011, on a total 497 cruise ships that have called at single Livorno 161, hardly fifth, have berthed to the real port fleeting, while the remaining 336 are landed Alto Fondale (158), to the Pier Italy (122) and to the Dock Tuscany (57). They are the numbers of a port, than with the current spaces on hand - it has emphasized - "ago not to offer to acceptance and services to us in areas purposely dedicated", that's why - it has added - it is essential that the Leighorn port of call "has a terminal cruises to the height and a town development plan that rationalizes I use it of the areas available, in order to make it to grow in efficiency". This - it has specified Gallanti - in order to collect yields of a section, that crocieristico, than in the Four city of Mori has made to record during the last few years increases remarkable percentages. It is necessary - it has observed - than "the harbour community begins to reason in an integration perspective. The port and the city must know to collect, with, the occasions of development of the cruises, that they are popular".

"Rotterdam - it has continued the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno - is even being equipped of a terminal in order to receive the cruise ships. We, that we have behind the Tuscany, cannot lose other time. We must capitalize to the maximum the potentialities offered from the presence, to our shoulders, of some between beautifulr Italian cities of art, known in the world as well as how much it is Rome. Obviously, at the same time, they will have to be safeguarded the commercial traffics, than with the new Town development plan they will find all an adapted positioning".

Gallanti has been stopped also on the issue of the Fortresses: "to Livorno - it has specified - we have two architectonic complexes of high historical virtue, the objective is that to value them. For this we have decided, together with the Municipality, to invite the next month some architects of absolute reputation because they say something to us in more on the advantages that would derive from use it of the two valuable manufactures. After that we can also think to organize a competition of ideas for the realization of a project that together holds city and port in the optical of politics of the acceptance".

To such purpose the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Livorno, Roberto Nardi, also emphasizing the procedural difficulties that up to now have returned an administrative distance of valorization of the two Fortresses much damaged, has been said disposed to give a contribution, also economic, to the project: "we are available - it has confirmed - to supply ideas and resources for an obvious and clear distance that affords to the tourists to know the quarter of the Venice and the complex of the fortifications". "The commercial operators - he has added Nardi - look with diffidence to the field of the cruises, but they know that the crocieristico traffic, in continuous increase, could guarantee new developments well and new you rearrange entrepreneurial. Task to Porto 2000 and the privatization. Certainly, there are solutions alternatives and, above all, various models of privatization, but to prescind from all this, what it counts is that Livorno has a terminal cruises as must"

On the hypothesis to realize a new crocieristico terminal Giovanni Spadoni has stopped itself, technical responsible and commercial of the Port of Livorno 2000, the society of the fleeting Harbour Authority that manages the port constituted by the terminal cruises to the Descent Frank Point and by the terminal you ferry to the Marine Station. Broadswords have introduced a complete project that previews the transformation of the current Taf warehouse South, located to Alto Fondale, in an area dedicated to the acceptance of the passengers: "the terminal - it has explained - is planned in order to accommodate cruise ships with boarding previewed until 4.000 passengers; the manufactured one will have a covered area of 4.500 square metres. In the 11,000 adjacent square metres the areas of parking for the buses and a covered parking two-floor for vehicles of the passengers (about 400 places are previewed car)".

Al convention has participated also to the operating director of MSC Cruises, Luigi Pastena, the president of Porto 2000, Roberto Piccini, Gianfranco Chetoni of the Municipality of Livorno and the president of the Confcommercio, Giannantonio Cesari.