the contest for the cession of the quotas majority of the Port of Livorno 2000 will be published at the beginning of March



At the beginning of the next month the contest for the cession of the quotas majority of the Port of Livorno 2000 will be published, the currently controlled society from the Harbour Authority of Livorno that manages in regime of monopoly the services to the passengers in the Leighorn port. It has announced today to the Harbour Committee the general secretary of the harbour agency, Massimo Provinciali, than he has apologized for the accumulated delays in these months justifying them with the complexity of a procedure to triple object, that he regards the cession of the quotas the society, the extension of the concession of the management service of the marine station and the extension of the state property concession of the instrumental areas of service.

Elsewhere "while we are accused for presumed the excessive haste with which we are proceeding to sell the quotas the society - it has asserted Provincial - mine I worry it is exactly the opposite one and it is that, that is, not to have ago published the ban already two months". "It sticks to the rules to add - it has remembered - than shortly could be launched from the Council of Ministers the assumed bill on the competition, which previews that former concessions art 6, codicil 5, as that in head to Porto 2000, cannot be postponed. If this bill were approved of and became law before the completion of the contest - it has specified the general secretary of the harbour authority - we would risk not to be able to postpone the concession beyond the previewed term on December 31, 2019".

Provincial it has among other things announced that the value of the society quantified from advisor KPMG in seven million euro about could increase: "we have asked advisor - it has explained - a simulation on the value that Porto 2000 would acquire if its concession were extended on December 31, 2030. The new simulation will be ready for the next week and will be part integrating of the contest ban. It is in fact famous that we will not be to indicate the term of the concession, but the candidates on the base of the introduced industrial plan".

The general secretary of the Harbour Authority has preannounced also three considered elements particularly characterizing and that they will be part integrating of the contest procedure. First it is the profile of the candidates: imagining that to the contest mainly temporary groupings of enterprises will participate, he is previewed as obligatory requirement that the candidate has matured a experience as manager of a crocieristico terminal whose volumes of traffic are not inferior to those of the port of Livorno (in last the five years the Leighorn port have enlivened from a minim of 626 thousand fleeting recorded last year to a maximum of beyond a million in 2012). With this requirement he is previewed that the same candidate, or directly or indirectly through the temporary association of enterprise, has also a proven experience or as manager of a navigation line ferry-cruises or as shipping agent in the field cruises or as tour operator. In the grill of the scores particular relief will be given is to the industrial plan, that it will have to preview actions of marketing and management of the stiff societies to increase traffic volumes, than to the plan of the investments, with which they will have to be realized the forecasts of fleeting the relative Portuale Town development plan to the port. In the ban a safeguard clause will be present also that you engage the private one to maintain occupational the levels existing. "We must hold to mind - it has specified Provincial - than we are not selling Porto 2000. We are simply dealing in order to acquire a new associate inside a society that remains identical, identical to as we know it today, also to occupational level. Moreover, the minority associates will not be excluded by the decisional processes, being previewed for charter the qualified majority of the ballots for the decisions that impattano mainly on the future of the cruises".

Provincial it has anticipated that from the moment of the publication of the ban 37 days for the acceptation of the manifestations of interest by the interested subjects will be necessary. Then it will want another month to us about in order estimating the suitable candidates. The subjects that will exceed the phases of prequalify will receive invitation letters and will have others 60 days of time in order to introduce the proposals. "I confide - it has concluded the general secretary - than for june we will have all the offers on the table. Our hope is of being able to adjudicate the contest for the first days of september".

In the course of the reunion of the Harbour Committee the general secretary has announced that also the contest for the consent in concession of the dry docks and docks 76,77 and 78 is practically ready: "we have exceeded last the problematic ones - it has specified - and soon will acquire all practical the documentary ones that are today necessary in order to manage the attached technicians. Between fifteen, twenty days we confide of being able to publish it on the Gazette".

The consent in concession of the basins will be bound to the repairs of fleeting and mercantile ships ordinarily of medium dimension, with the maximum width of 24 meters, limit tax from the impossibility to work a ship with greater width to the preparation dock n. 76 without to interfere with the functionalities of before destined dock 75 from the PRP to the nautical one from diporto.

The leader of the harbour agency Matteo Paroli, in charge of the procedure, has clarified that, however, the lacked respect the enforced and in environmental matters sanitary norm for how much object of the contest with the contiguous residential anthropic activities concerns the compatibility of the industrial activities to the compendium of the dry docks will return the offer not valued. Moreover the enterprises you candidate will have to develop activities that do not prejudice the future use of the basin in masonry for the activities of repair of the ships, also of great dimension.

The contest will be put into effect with a procedure in two phases: to the action of the publication of the ban the terms for the presentation of the interest manifestations will be defined; in the second phase the invitation to contest to the competitors turned out suitable in relation will be transmitted to the selection criteria. The competitors will be able to introduce themselves in temporary groupings of enterprise, according to prescribed how much from the norm on the contracts.