the Harbour Committee of Livorno has given the go-ahead free to the cession of the quotas majority of the Port of Livorno 2000



Today Srl, the fleeting society that the traffic in the Leighorn port manages, and to the allocation of a harbour area to the enterprise Masol Srl of the Indonesian group Musim Mas.

In the course of the reunion the president of the Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti, has emphasized that "on the iter of dismissione of the quotas majority of Porto 2000 not he has been, by the authority, no acceleration suspects, indeed - he has specified - we are behind schedule regarding the previewed times". "Already seven years ago - Gallanti has remembered - the ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports prefigured the hypothesis of a not majority participation by the Harbour Authority in the society that manages the cruises to Livorno. Today we are moving exactly in this direction". "We are simply - he has added - giving execution to previewed how much from the Triennial Operations plan: the first stage previews the choice of a advisor independent that estimates in objective way is the value of the society that of the reference market. After that we proceed to the indiction of a public contest for the real cession of the quotas. But it will be the same one advisor to advise to us than to come down regarding the majority quota".

Specifying that they will want some months to us before this phase bes exhausted and that the sale of the quota is not imminent, the general secretary of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Massimo Provinciali, has evidenced that it is however necessary "to not only begin with an appraisal of maximum in reference to the present value of the society, but also regarding the future investments in the crocieristico section previewed from adopting the Portuale Town development plan". "We cannot wait for - Gallanti has confirmed - than the PRP definitively is approved of. We must be put online with how much it is asked by the ministry. And the appraisal of the advisor is the first important step aerobic".

The deliberation that it gives sent to Gallanti for the choice of the advisor, is adopted unanimously by the Harbour Committee, that it has received also the proposal of the president of the Province of Livorno, Giorgio Kutufa, to insert, between the elements of address to give to the advisor, that of the timing: "the adviser financial - she has found Kutufà - does not have to only give an esteem to us of the value of the society, but to indicate us which she could be best time in order to sell the stopped quotas majority from the Harbour Authority. Meantime, but – it has added - goes clarified the position of the Chamber of Commerce. What intends to make Nardi? It wants to exercise the preemptive right on the quotas that the Harbour Authority will offer for sale". "Limiting us to the formal actions - the mayor of Livorno has remembered, Alessandro Cosimi - the Chamber of Commerce in 2006 it had expressed the intention to yield own quotas, not to buy of others. The position of the Chamber of Commerce must be clarified for the profitable prosecuzione of the negotiation". From part its representative of the workers Claudio Picchiottino has proposed of "intavolare confronts with the institutions, in order to clarify which will be, also in occupational terms, the fallen back ones of this type of operation".

Moreover, to seven months from the request introduced from the Masol society in order to realize in the port of Livorno a system of biodiesel and, successively, a palm oil refinery, the Harbour Committee has newly adopted unanimously the deliberation that authorizes the Harbour Authority to assign in rent for 30 years a surface of 10 thousand square metres in the Former area Seal, on the East Side of the Tuscany Dock, to the new Milanese society, that it is under responsibility of the Indonesian group Musim Mas specialized in the production, treatment, distribution and commercialization of the palm oil. "The acceptance of the lease request - Gallanti has explained - is conditioned to the respect by Masol than defined from own industrial plan. Investments for 55 million euros, and a directed and induced occupation are previewed between of 285 people".

Musim Mas previews to enliven to Livorno a flow of annual traffic pairs to 600 thousand tons of goods (is raw materials that biodiesel), volume currently already enlivened in Italy from the Indonesian group through situated systems of storage in other national ports and that Musim Mas has the intention of concentrate exclusively in the Leighorn port. "Once settled to Livorno - it has emphasized Gallanti - the Masol makes of our port a real international pole for the producing commercialization and the production of deriving from the palm oil, it is in the alimentary and pharmaceutical within that in that of the correlated biocarburanti and fields".

The request introduced from Masol is however relative to harbour areas and marine state property areas for beyond 30 thousand eventual square metres and other areas of not inferior surface to 25 thousand square metres. "The negotiation with Masol - Massimo Provinciali has explained - went ahead from last June. Our offices have sifted their demands, and how much today we feel ourselves to grant to the society it is I yield of a careful job of mediation and preliminary investigation. It is a matter of course that this is only the important first stage of a long and complex procedure: Energy of the ministry of the economic Development will be up to the Direction to express itself in the merit of the sustainability of the industrial plan".

The Harbour Authority has specified that the decision to assign to Masol 10 thousand square metres of the area of the former Seal is assumed to the term of a comparazione between various requests of made concession and lease from several subjects and that the procedure has been concluded with the location of the best introduced entrepreneurial project from the Indonesian society, that has guaranteed investments for 55 million euros and the employment to full regime of 55 direct dependent and 230 indirect ones. Between the competitors - the harbour agency has announced - societies T.L.R.P figured also. Spa and Base Spa, that they had introduced jointly question for the lease of total areas for 20 thousand square metres on the Former Seal for the realization and the assemblage of blocks of industrial carpentry. The harbour authority has specified to have however appreciated the introduced industrial plan from these societies and it has been said disposed to find, inside of the port, suitable areas to the development of activity tied to the realization of works of metallic carpentry.