Renewed for 53 years the concession to La Spezia Container Terminal



Today the Harbour Committee of has given the go-ahead free to the request of renews last January anticipated of the concession introduced from La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), the society of the group Contship Italy that manages the main container terminal of from Liguria port. The Harbour Authority of has specified that the request, by the moment of its presentation, is published on all the official organs and publics and that, not being advanced some observation neither introduced some concurrent question, as a result of a deepened examination of the proposed plan of enterprise is decided to receive it.

The investment previewed by the terminalista society is of 200 million euros. In particular, against a concession 53-year-old, LSCT it will invest in infrastructures, equipments and great means and the main investments will be realized in the first 6-7 years. LSCT provvederà to the lengthening of the Fornelli Pier in order to allow the contemporary berthing of ships of new generation, will construct the new dock to the place of Marina of the Narrow channel and will rationalize the Fornelli Pier through other participations. The Harbour Authority has emphasized that, on the total of the investments, about 80 million they will be dedicated to civil works that therefore, to the term of the concession, will be confiscated by the public part.

Draft - the president of the Harbour Authority has commented, Lorenzo Forcieri, of "a message of hope for the economy not only regional but of the entire Country. With the investments previewed from LSCT and already indicated from the Portuale Town development plan, the company, one of most solid in the national panorama, will widen its presence in our port of call with obvious positive glares on the occupational economic plan and. It will increase the ability and the attractive force of the port breaks to about 1milione and 800 thousand teus with an increment of the attache's pairs to about 50% of the current ones". "It is first time - it has added - that in Italy a work of this type is realized entirely with private capitals without employment of public resources, than today moreover are devoid".

The managing director of LSCT, Marco Simonetti, has emphasized that the objective of the society is "to maintain and to increase to places of vanguard. With these works - it has explained - we will acquire important new market shares and we will still root ourselves more in this territory in which from always we believe".