Nencini: the reduction of the Harbour Authorities alone not enough



"The reduction of the Harbour Authorities goes in the direction of a reasonable simplification of the current picture but alone not enough". The vice minister to Infrastructures has said today, Riccardo Nencini, in the course of an encounter with the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, in the center of the Leighorn harbour agency to Rosciano Palace. "Upstream of this - it has specified Nencini - trasportistica politics serve national that from each other coordinate the projects of development of the Italian ports".

In I confront with Gallanti the vice minister has admitted to look with increasing worry to the phenomenon of the market penetration of Italy by the markets of the Europe North, to the fact that Rotterdam, beyond to being the port of Milan, is also one of the points of reference of the interporto of Novara, of which is acquiring of the areas. An alarming situation that, according to the vice minister, can be only exorcised through a radical change of the current harbour ordering, change that the same Gallanti wishes can tomorrow prevent to the Italian ports to decide in full freedom, without a coordination on a national level and without not even not to consider the risk of the productive sovracapacità, which and how many infrastructural projects to promote.

Nencini and Gallanti moreover have stopped on relevant issues the port of Livorno, which the Portuale Town development plan - than for the vice minister it is "a priority to evade the first possible one" - and the Platform Europe, the work of expansion to sea of the Leighorn port of call for which the vice minister has shown a remarkable interest, are with reference to the total costs of the work that to the times previewed for the realization.

During the Nencini visit it has moreover put the accent on the necessity to develop to regional level politics of flat system that makes hinge on the wide hinterland and which Livorno enjoys and that it includes the airport society Sat in an integrated logistic vision.

The vice minister to Infrastructures has at last shared the necessity that the ministry of the Atmosphere signs as soon as possible decrees implementing for the passage of the competences of the dredgings in the port of Livorno to the Tuscany Region. "Without I decree signed - it has emphasized Gallanti - we cannot today start the new projects of dredging of the port, comprised that of the access channel".