the regional council of the Tuscany has approved of the Portuale Town development plan of the port of Livorno



This morning the regional council of the Tuscany has approved of unanimously the Portuale Town development plan of the port of Livorno. Draft - it has emphasized the regional city council member to Infrastructures, Vincenzo Ceccarelli, of "an historical passage for port and city of Livorno. A beautiful page for infrastructure Tuscan". A plan - it has evidenced - that it will guarantee development to the infrastructure and the consisting city thanks to investments to which participates also the Region with 200 million previewed from the regional Financial institution for the port, besides 33 million public resources allocated for the realization of the railway connections.

"We have faced the crisis port - Ceccarelli has explained - giving perspective, giving the instruments for a quality jump that will afford the development and the requalification of the port, having equipped it and returning it competitive for the future challenges. This will return to advantage also of a part of the city, that it will come in its turn requalified".

Illustrating the innovations previewed from the new Portuale Town development plan, the city council member has specified that "modification the access by sea, guaranteeing more safety for the income of the great ships. Moreover - he has added - we will have the new Europe Dock and a better infrastructuring, besides the connection directed with national the railway net and the interporto of Guasticce, than developing at best its vocation of retroporto, he will give its contribution to optimize the logistic platform Tuscany. A efficient and functional system, that it will return very attractive Livorno".

Also the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, has spoken about "historical day for all the city and the port". "For a long time - it has remembered - we waited for this moment. Besides the protagonists of this last phase, first of all the president of the Region Tuscany, Enrico Rossi - Gallanti has said - I want publicly to thank also who has followed with generosity and engagement all the iter, from the members of the Harbour Committee to the precedence city administration. In particular, graces sincere go completely to former mayor former Alessandro Cosimi and deputy mayor Bruno Picchi, that they have believed in the goodness of the project of widening to sea of the port of call, supporting to us".

"We are all many satisfying - it has continued Gallanti - in almost four years we are successful to carry an important result at home. We are spold from the beginning because the Leighorn port of call exited from sand banks of the do-nothing policy and a long and suffered crisis. Now, with the Europe Platform, we can truly return to being protagonists and on a national level international".

Iter of adoption and the approval of the Portuale Town development plan in fact it is begun in 2011 and it has arrived to the first turn of buoy two years after when the document is adopted for the first time in Harbour Committee. Then to October of 2014 the green light also by the Higher council of the Public works has reached. The last stage, before the ok of the Region, has been the approval of Varying to the Structural Plan by the Municipality.