the institutions of the Tuscany and Livorno have undersigned an understanding for the Leighorn port



Yesterday to Florence the city council members of the Tuscany Region to the Urban planning, planning of the territory and landscape and Infrastructures and transports, Anna Marson and Vincenzo Ceccarelli, the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, deputy mayor of the Municipality of Livorno, Bruno Picchi, and the city council member to the territorial Programming, you transport, tpl and ports of the Province of Livorno, Piero Nocchi, have undersigned a preliminary understanding for the agreement of planning for the port of Livorno.

Draft, has explained the regional city council member Marson, of a "substantial stage in the procedure previewed for the contextual definition of the Portuale Town development plan, of the card of the Masterplan of the Pit and the communal town-planning instruments. An understanding reached thanks to the strong coordination of all the competent agencies, that it will assure a consistent development to the port of Livorno, putting to system with of territorial equipments that characterize it. The transformations regard the commercial port, and therefore the future manufacturer of Livorno, but an accommodation - and she is an important action also - for the nautical minor expelled from the medicea dock has been found also who we are sure will be appreciated by the livornesi citizens". "As for the times for the approval - it has added the city council member - the understanding must be approved of from the Councils, then is adoption of the respective actions of planning, therefore the publication, the observations and the controdeduzioni, until the definitive approval. But the engagement is to proceed how much more quickly possible one".

"The port of Livorno - the regional city council member Ceccarelli has commented - must remain in the series To of the ports, the Region wants that it is the diamond tip of what more and more it must be shaped as a Tuscan harbour system. The new Portuale Town development plan will allow to realize the activities necessary in order to return possible the access to the great transport ships and to give to a definitive and independent positioning for the landing place of the cruise ships, implementing the most important infrastructural participations that they have already taken start or that they will take it in the next few months. Task in particular to the direct connection of the port with national the railway net, to I climb over of the Calambrone that the port with Guasticce will connect directly, shaping this area more and more as retroporto, and increasing the competitiveness of the same port, a fundamental operation that allows answers in terms also of infrastructural potenziamento and therefore of increase of the competitiveness. Necessary conditions because the port of Livorno developments ulteriorly; we know how much the portualità is fundamental in order to shape the Tuscany as access door also towards Europe. The understanding not only gives start to this fundamental distance for the city of Livorno and the coast, but for the all the Tuscany".

According to Giuliano Gallanti, "this agreement attended from decades is the Bible of the port for the future. Every participation - it has found the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno - will have in fact to be coherent with the design programmer that we have traced. The central elements are the amalgamation of terminal for the freeways of the sea, finally a enough large terminal for the cruises, and a development of the activities for the container in the Europe Dock that together with the other dock will have the advantage of being connected directly with the railroad, that it will make of Livorno the first if not only truly railway port of the Mediterranean".

"That today - it has declared deputy mayor of Livorno, Bruno Picchi - is a extremely meaningful moment. The started procedure, that it redesigns the relationship between city and port, allows us to project the livornese port of call in the future challenges of the economy and the job".

For the provincial city council member Piero Nocchi, "this action projects the Tuscany towards the 2020 and nozzle the port of Livorno a lot beyond the daily management in a Mediterranean context, creating the premises in order to couple the escape from the crisis".