the Harbour Committee of Livorno has adopted unanimously the new Portuale Town development plan



To a year and means from the green light preliminary, today the Harbour Committee of Livorno has supplied unanimously to the adoption of the new Portuale Town development plan. The much satisfied president of the Harbour Authority: "draft - Giuliano Gallanti has commented - of epochal carrying out. The port of Livorno has all papers in order in order to return to propose itself as one of the more important carries of the Mediterranean".

"the PRP - it has added the general secretary of the agency, Massimo Provinciali - is the result of a team job which they have contributed all. Between september of the 2011 and February of the 2012 numerous encounters with the institutions have been carried out, the harbour community and the social organizations, and after months of arguments also ignited finally we are landed to the definitive version of the plan. I thank all for the collaboration".

Full satisfaction is expressed also by the vice mayor of Livorno, Bruno Picchi, that it has spoken about a new model of interlacing between port and city: "9th December - it has remembered - the Town council has approved of anticipatrice varying to the structural and the town-planning regulations, necessary plan to the adoption of the Portuale Town development plan. Municipality and Authorities have made job of team to go to this important result. Now we can proceed quickly towards the approval of the PRP and Varying".

To the reunion of the Harbour Committee it has participated also professor Alberto Noli, ordinary of marine Constructions near the University "the Wisdom" of Rome and associate of the Modimar, society that is charged to support the Harbour Authority in the planning of the document: "until little time calls - it has evidenced - Leighorn appeared to the eyes of the observatories as a patchwork, a messy jumble of areas and functions disposed to case on the map of the port. I must say that president Gallanti has made a dear job of rationalization of the existing and has accorpato the functions. With the town development plan we make a step forward: Livorno is one of the ports that in Italy it has put up perspective of development".

The new document will be time examined within 45 days from the Higher council of the Public works and, after the warning of publication on the Regionale Gazette (60 days maximum) for the relative observations to Strategic the Environmental Appraisal, the programming instrument that will redesign geography of the port could be sent to the Tuscany Region for the final approval.

The new Portuale Town development plan is illustrated to the members of the Harbour Committee by Marco Tartaglini, only administrator of the Modimar society. The support column of the PRP is represented by the Europe Platform: "the objectives - Tartaglini has explained - were clear: we wanted to develop two traffics, the containers and the rotabili; we wanted, moreover, to move away the terminal oils the city and to integrate the tourist portualità with a nautical infrastructure dedicated to the social one". The Europe Platform has been born in order to develop the first two requirements: it is extended to north of the port, has a terminal dedicated to the container (two lateral docks of 1.200 linear meters, a frontal dock of 600 meters, 72 hectares of large squares and backdrops to a -16) and other dedicated to the rotabili (a linear dock of 1.200 meters, large square from 56 hectares and six moorings frontal side for ships from 240 meters). The new Dock completes the infrastructure Oils, equipped of four moorings, of which one for ships until 200 meters, two for ships of length until 240 meters, and the quarter for the oil tankers of great dimensions.

An other innovation of the PRP is the tombamento of the access to the Tuscany Dock through the famous Doors Vinciane and the realization, little more to south, than a dock with a wide mouth 130 meters, an outer harbor, a dock side south of 789 meters, a dock side north of 466 meters and at least 100 meters of width. "In correspondence of the River mouth of Calambrone - it has specified Tartaglini - a Fluvial Dock is previewed that, besides to constitute the income in port for the channel of the navicelli, it will be able to become a terminal for fluvial navigation". In the new infrastructure all will find space the barges and the boats that can navigate in the scolmatore. "The new infrastructure - it has added Tartaglini - will give to an answer to the problems of burial of the backdrops of Terminal Tuscany Dock and to the requirement to maintain to the connections between the port and the shipbuilding Pisan".

Moreover for nautical the social one, in Bellana resort, beside the Morosini dock, the realization of a protect watery mirror is previewed where the dedicated structures of mooring will be installed.