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Gallanti: the European ports are not ready to the arrival of the large ones portacontainer of the new shipowning alliances
"If we continue to ignore the problem - it has emphasized - the phenomenon of naval gigantism delivers to the history not winners and losers but died and survivors
May 15, 2014
"I have remained surprised that in the session dedicated to the impact of the stars alliances on the portualità nobody has represented the point of view of the European ports". It has said Giuliano Gallanti, vice president of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) and president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, taking part today to before the two days of the conference anniversary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) that he is carried out to Goteborg.
Participating to the session on the topic "the ports they are confronted with market forces in increase. For the ports draft of a race downward or a thrust for the competitiveness? ", in the course of which it has been discussed about the impact on the European ports generated from the new great shipowning alliances and the great container vessels that are putting in service, Gallanti has evidenced that the majority of the European ports "cannot physically receive these giants of the sea". "We want some to speak" it has added. "If we continue to ignore the problem - it has found Gallanti - the phenomenon of naval gigantism delivers to the history not winners and losers but died and survivors. Here it is on stack not only the efficiency of the harbour ports of call of the South, but their survival".
"Naval gigantism - it is emphasized - risks to condemn the ports to an inexorable one and slow decline" and, in particular, "the Mediterranean could be transformed in a lake, a big ones lake, on which at the end the cruise ships will journey only".
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