Gallanti (AP Livorno): "the Harbour Authorities must be endowed of a greater contractual force"



Taking part today to Livorno to the convention on the topic "the town development plan of the port of Livorno. From the existential certainty to the organized development" from the Order of the Engineers of the Province of Livorno, the president of the Leighorn Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti, has defended the acts of the agency for the approval of the new programmatorio instrument of the port having emphasized that "what we had to make we have made it, and we have put ourselves less than nine months in order to realize it".

"On the tempistica - it has specified Gallanti - we cannot stuffed nothing, interferes there that which English call Red Tape, the excessive bureaucracy". Contained Sul of the Portuale Town development plan pre-adopted in Harbour Committee last month (inforMARE on June 20, 2012), instead, Gallanti has not had uncertainties in evidencing the goodness of the adopted pianificatorie choices: "with the Prp - it has explained - we have tried to concentrate the business activities of the port of call in little great specialistic areas. The modern port must have terminal with determined dimensions, is obvious that mega the ships that are about to arrive in the Mediterranean will need adequate spaces". Gallanti has specified that one of the great emergencies that the Leighorn port of call must face in the immediate one is that of the railway connections and has drawn the attention on the important agreement reached in the past few months with the Tuscany Region and RFI for the railway infrastructuring of the docks: "between a lot - it has remembered - finally we will not be connected via iron to the main markets of reference and Livorno could truly become the first Italian railway port of call, a little as Antwerp in Europe north".

More in general terms Gallanti has evidenced the currently crossed critical phase from the Italian ports in matter of governance of the ports of call: "in Italy - it has found - this is happening today that in the ports of call of the Northern Range it is by now the norm: the great financial institutions, trusts and the banks are acquiring the great terminals. The Harbour Authorities - it has emphasized - must be endowed of a greater contractual force". In Italy - it has added - "there are two schools of thought: according to some, the authorities they must be of the simple administrators of apartment house, managers of the public Federal property, second others would have instead to be business oriented and to have the faculty to make investments to out of the harbour area. I am in favor of this last thesis".

"The ports of the Europe North - it has continued Gallanti - have understood before we that a marine port of call is not a simple port store, but a ring of a complex logistic chain: for this they have begun to invest on inland the terminals, being made them to become of the real manipulation and triage centers of the goods. And it is one of the reasons of their smash hit: they have navigable rivers, very they are connected to the reference markets and have to interpose to you efficient".

According to the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, moreover, the voice of the Italian portualità does not arrive oltreconfine: "Italy - it has said - is little anticipates in Europe, nevertheless the directive on the concessions that is about to be managed promises to have a devastating impact on local the political balances".

"A few days ago - it has concluded Gallanti - I have read the study on the Italian portualità elaborated from Cassa Warehouses and Loans: a famous thing is read to you, and that is that the ports of reference for Alta Italia (Po Plain) is not Genoa, Livorno or La Spezia, but Rotterdam, Antwerp, Amburgo. This must make us to reflect, so as it must make us to reflect the fact that not even a container disembarked in one of the ports of the peninsula does not reach Switzerland or Bavaria".