the Tuscany Region confirmation the intention to cover a quarter of the costs for the construction of the Europe Platform of Livorno



The president of the Region Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, has confirmed that the agency could participate to the financing of the construction of the Europe Platform in the port of Livorno, project that will allow in the first phase to realize a new container terminal on earthwork south, in order to allow with the Leighorn port of call to receive already most modern portacontainer in service of the length of about 340 meters and of the draught of -14 meters, in a second phase to prepare the new dock oils and part of the earthwork north that will be completed in the third phase and that it will accommodate a new terminal for the freeways of the sea.

Announcing a special project yesterday for I throw again of Livorno, that it among other things previews the development of the city port, the Tuscan governor has confirmed the intention to assign to resources to the harbour new work. "In order to complete the Europe Dock - Rossi has explained - I am available to assign an important figure, a regional participation never carried out, but - it has specified - I will only make if there will be the full involvement of all the social forces for the development of the competitiveness of this infrastructure". The president of the Region has specified that the agency could assign beyond 160 million euros to the operation, having asked the government to put of as many and to the Harbour Authority to make the same one, while remaining 150 million the 650 total ones would have to arrive from the project financing. This - Rossi has explained - will be before the demands who the Tuscan ones will carry to the national table previewed within December the Ministry of the economic Development, the first point of that agreement of program that social institutions and parts have been said available to agree together with the government.

Yesterday, in the course of an encounter to which they have participated the mayor of Livorno, Filippo Nogarin, the president of the Province, Alessandro Franchi, the mayor of Collesalvetti, Lorenzo Bacci, the provincial and regional representatives of Cgil, Cisl and Uil, the Harbour Authority, the Chamber of Commerce and the exponents of the productive categories, the president of the Tuscany Region said to consider indispensable, also for I throw again of the port, the completion of the coastal corridor. From the moment that it is gone towards an adaptation of the Aurelia until Fonteblanda and the realization of a highway feature in the last feature to Rome - it has found - the Region only asks guarantees on the times for realization for the work so as on the exemption from the payment for the toll for the residents and has sped up the involvement to the table of the Municipality of Pisa "for the obvious connection that is between the port and the airport".

The intention of the Region is that to ask the government a contribution for the areas for crisis on the had model for that for Piombino, to which to add concerted European financings with the State.