the Harbour Authority of Livorno has realized a mission to New York, that she is the first commercial partner of the Leighorn port of call, through which every year they journey 74 thousand container teu from and for the East Coast the USA, of which 30 thousand from and for the Great Apple. Draft of a volume that represents almost 30% of the total traffic of the containers enlivened annually to Livorno. The mission has been organized from the harbour agency with Tuscany Promotion, Tuscan Port Authorities (Piombino, Livorno and Marina Carrara) and to the Chambers of Commerce of Livorno and Carrara.

To New York the delegation of the Italian harbour agency, formed from the leader external promotion and reports Gabriele Gargiulo and from civil employees Francesco Ghio and Roberto Lippi, it has met the representatives of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, Robert Lamura and Bethann Rooney, with the scope to update to the old protocol of understanding undersigned to November 2000( 14of November 2000). At a distance of thirteen years from the signature of the first agreement in fact the necessity is emerged to revitalize the relations between the two ports and is placed the accent on the opportunity to find a synergy on safety, topic a lot felt in the United States.

During the day the livornese delegation has met also the summits of Mediterranean Shipping Company (the USA), which the plans of infrastructuring and the works of dredging are introduced that over two years could deeply change the face of the port of Livorno returning it suitable to receive ships of greater dimension regarding those current ones. The access to the Tuscany Dock, the increase of the basin of evolution and the railway connection directed between the port and the tirrenica net has been some between the details of the informative material with which the Leighorn delegation has introduced itself to the exhibition center which put on from the Italy-America Chamber of Commerce (IACC), an organization been born with the scope to promote the relations between Italy and the USA.

the president of the IACC, Claudio Bozzo, has emphasized as the mission has revealed "smash hit". "It has made me it like - he has specified - than a port as Livorno has known to represent so the Tuscany well. Never seen a presentation with a participation so high" Al road-show of from Tuscany port of call there was in fact all the gotha of the shipping international: from MSC to CMA CGM until the UASC and the logistic company Kuehne & Nagel. You anticipate also many notes shipment houses like Savino of the Good, Giorgio Gori, Of Corona and Scardigli, Shipping Service and Laviosa.

"With today - Gabriele Gargiulo has commented - we have demonstrated that the port of Livorno can still play a not secondary role in the within of the business between the two Countries. We have strengthened the relationships of cooperation with the newyorkese Harbour Authority and the international operators and have thrown the premises in order to revitalize our commercial exchanges with the continent American; it report, these, that they become fundamental to light of the infrastructuring works that we are realizing to Livorno".

Francesco Ghio has explained that the operators have shown also a great attention "for 26 billion euros of investments that hence to the 2030 European Union he will use in order to modernize the trans-European nets of transport; under this point of view - it has found the representative of the Harbour Authority of Livorno - our port can acquire a strategic importance, being inserted in Core Network of the European marine ports of call. The nets TRY are not only an European business, but an important channel for the transit also of the goods beyond the ocean".

Of the livornese delegation has taken part also the president of the Interporto Vespucci: to New York - it has evidenced Federico Barbera - "we have introduced ourselves like an important arranges logistic integrated and we have demonstrated that port and retroporto can and must make job of team in order to win the challenges of the globalization" .