In the 2015 port of Livorno it previews to enliven 700 thousand crocieristi



This year the port of Livorno previews to enliven a crocieristico traffic fleeting pairs to 700 thousand thanks to the ports of call of 367 cruise ships, with a rise regarding 626 thousand fleeting totaled in 2014 (- 15% on 2013). For 2016, then, a traffic of 816 thousand is attended crocieristi. These forecasts are formulated in forecast of the participation of the Harbour Authority of Livorno and the Port of Livorno 2000, the society of the harbour agency that manages the traffic of the passengers in the Leighorn port of call, to the Cruise Shipping Miami, the main international exhibition manifestation on the cruises that are in program from the 16 on 19 March next ones to Miami.

"That American - the regional leader of Tuscany has declared Promotion, Alberto Peruzzini, in sight of the participation to the American manifestation - is between the markets on which we will work with greater intensity for this year. The Tuscany presence to the Seatrade is a fundamental point of the strategy of tourist promotion of our region. The forecasts of the field experts, in fact, speak about a 2015 from record. For the first time the passengers could be old 23 million on the cruise ships, of which almost 11 million boarded or in transit from the Italian ports. We are convinced that the strategy which set up with the Tuscan harbour system goes in the just direction in order to make of the 2015 year of the carried out one for the crocierismo in Tuscany".

While the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, in representation of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), has taken to part to Brussels to the first Pan-European symposium on tourism and cruises and the relationship port-city promoted from the EU commission. "I believe that with today - has commented Gallanti - a new collaborative season between the ports and the industry of the cruises in Europe can leave. Al summit - it has explained - is characterized six thematic points on which the EU commission, ESPO, Assoporti and the stakeholder of field will work in the next few months. The objective is to create a common picture that it acts as do not give barrier, but from motor propeller to the development of the crocierismo of the Union". "Come Assoporti - it has specified the president of the harbour agency of Livorno - we will intensify our efforts near the European institutions and the ESPO in order to guarantee the prosecuzione of the increase, supported and sustainable, of the crocieristico traffic. We believe is by now necessary to define models of sustainable development in which the port and the city they can grow in sinergico way. It is necessary to rediscover this correspondence, following criteria of efficiency, aesthetic usefullness but also of and integration with the urban fabric".