The Harbour Authority of will arrange of the areas of the port of call goods of S. Stefano Magra



Today the Logistic managing director of FS, Gilberto Galloni, and the president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, the lease contract has undersigned thanks to which the harbour agency will be able to arrange of the areas of the port of call goods of S. Stefano Magra of property of the company of the group Italian Railroads of the State.

"The action today - it has emphasized Forcieri - represents a fundamental passage for the start of the relative project to more complete and profitable I use of these areas, to which customs administrative division will be extended. Here the activities of control and verification of the goods coming from the port will be concentrated all. This will afford to free fastly the spaces on the docks, being increased the potentiality of the port of call and reducing the times of wait. Now we hope that the government can finally create to the customs only door, for informatizzare and velocizzare all ulteriorly the procedures".

"The retroportuale area of S. Stefano Magra - it has continued the president of the Harbour Authority - could represent for our port and the entire territory a great opportunity that but never is not picked fully, because up to now that to the creation of true retroporto with the development of activity and logistic services has been thought more to the real estate aspect. The various start of and the most intense one I use of the railway platform can be I prime in order to develop it of fully to all the potentialities, putting finally to system port and retroporto".

Forcieri has evidenced also the requirement to rethink the role of the SVAR, the Society for the Valorization of the Aree Retroportuali constituted in 1996 on initiative of the Municipality of Santo Stefano Magra: according to the president of the Harbour Authority (agency that stops 6.6% of SVAR) is necessary to transform it "from real estate to society of management and development of the logistic and retroportuali activities. It is necessary, to my opinion - it has specified - to think to a project of more general, able interest than to attract investments and to develop to occupation, taking advantage of the connected presence of the port and activities. In purpose we are in contact with some important national and international groups".

"That of S. Stefano - it has concluded Forcieri - is a project that spouse therefore with the others our numerous undertaken actions in order to obtain an always greater efficiency of our port, and thanks to which we count of being able to attract new and to important investor on our territory. We also count on the collaboration of the municipal administration whose role is essential for the realization of every project of development".