The port of Civitavecchia anticipates a development plan that previews investments for beyond 650 million euros



Today in opening of the manifestation "the 2 days of the Mediterranean", under development in the port of Civitavecchia, the president of the local Harbour Authority, Pasqualino Monti, it has introduced the development plan of the Latium port of call, that it is supported by an investment program already executives in new harbour infrastructures for a total value of beyond 300 million euros and that previews investments for a total of beyond 650 million euros.

Emphasizing that "Civitavecchia has all papers in order in order to claim an insertion in Core Network of the projects IT TRY", Monti has announced that the port nozzle real "a new deal" in the financing of great infrastructures, not only conquering the role more important station contracting out in the field of the Italian portualità, but especially putting operatively a new formula that the directed co-financing by the Harbour Authority of the works in a position to producing previews, on the financial base of a plan ad hoc, an economic return certainly of the carried out investment.

The plan previews in fact is a solid participation of private capitals is an innovative form of co-financing that sees the Harbour Authority to place side by side decisively to the financings publics through an activation of resources that will be generated by the conquest of the new traffics. This - it has specified the Harbour Authority - has realized in 50 million euros of the harbour agency in the first lottery of the strategic works of the port of Civitavecchia (the new dock ferries entitled to Sant'Egidio with nine approaches for ro-ro and cruises, of which this morning to the presence of the president of the Community of Sant'Egidio, Marco Impagliazzo is placed the first stone, let alone the dock services and the extension of the detached mole) and in 70 million euros in the construction of the new port of Fiumicino, without to count the effort in order to realize in the historical port of most evocative Civitavecchia one of historically fascinating it plays hooky of the Mediterranean.

Monti has specified that the development plan not only prefigures at least three objectives to high strategic valence for the port, but for the entire area of production and consumption (second for importance in Italy) that he comprises the region Latium, but also the near regions, Umbria and Marche, placed on an ideal corridor Tyrrhenian-Adriatic, destined to break the chronic incomunicabilità between the two seas.

The first objective is that to reply in the goods and in the logistics the "completed miracle" from Civitavecchia in the crocieristico traffic, making of the Latium port a hub for container and other types of goods, putting for the first time to common factor the availability of harbour areas back for beyond five million square metres, approaches in only deep waters in Italy (22 meters) and therefore able to today receive the larger ships in exercise on the routes of the traffic container and infrastructures of terrestrial connection (railway and highway) that after decades they have exited from the dream book: in particular the Tirrenica freeway, but also Orte-Mestre.

According to objective of the plan it is represented by the realization of the new commercial port of Fiumicino (managed as also Gaeta from the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia within a regional Network) with the scope to make some according to crocieristico port of call of world-wide level in a position to developing on four approaches a traffic of beyond 1,8 million additional passengers regarding the 2,6 who today Civitavecchia (leader in the Mediterranean) receives in its harbour river bed.

The third objective consists in making of Civitavecchia a pole of planning of business in the field of the cruises and the freeways of the sea.