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The from Liguria ports to the fair of the logistics of Monk in order to convince the operators to take advantage of more the ports of call of the south Europe
New opportunities offered from a plan of investments that has a total value of beyond 2,2 billion euros
May 6, 2015
The from Liguria harbour system, under the standards of the alliance Ligurian Ports, has been introduced compact to the international fair Transport Logistic di Monaco of Bavaria, where this morning of a round table centralized on the ports of Genoa, La Spezia is carried out and Savona which gateways for the Europe North, with the scope to explain and to promote the alternative of the ports put forward on the Mediterranean for those loaders and shippers of the Europe center that still today prefer the ports of call of the Northern Range.
Besides the characteristics of from Liguria the harbour and logistic system, to the relative data to the total traffics, the strengths and the efficiencies of the three ports of call, in particular the perspectives of from Liguria ports are illustrated that can count on a conspicuous package of investments pairs to beyond 2,2 billion euros, under realization and of authorization: Savona has in yard works for 800 million, Genoa for about 1,1 billion and Spezia for beyond 400 million.
As for the port of Genoa, the president of the Harbour Authority of the capital of Liguria, Luigi Merlo, has emphasized that the port of call "is anticipated today at the market international of the logistics as one of the European harbour excellence is in terms of structures that of efficiency. A port - it has evidenced - multifunctional and multigoods that the great challenge of the development has collected and that today it is candidated to become the gateway privileged for the goods directed in Europe". Merlon has specified that in occasion of the fair of Monk it has found a great interest of the operators also for the new Portuale Town development plan and the project of the Print Blue di Renzo Piano.
The president of the Harbour Authority of, Lorenzo Forcieri, has found that "the moment has reached to break old outlines and prejudices on our Country and our harbour system. By now - it has explained - not there are more reasons because the ports of the side south of the Mediterranean, and that of in particular, cannot be chosen as doors of market access of Centro Europa. We lead the way in the informatizzazione processes, with the preaclearing we have halved dwell the Time, we have upgraded the intermodalità and we are competitive with the costs. Thanks to the trade-union peace and to the social cohesion that reign on the docks we work 365 days the year". For Forcieri, "it is therefore possible to re-balance the difference between north and south Europe, at least in terms of harbour traffics. It is this - it has confirmed - the objective, ours and of the entire Country, for which we are working, and the results begin to see themselves".
"The development strategies continuations from the Harbour Authority of Savona in these years - the president of the agency has rimarcato, Gian Luigi Miazza - have in some way precourse in existence the times, putting initiatives in order to value the strengths of the port of call and the surrounding territory; beyond the deep backdrops, railway lines towards the hinterland with good margins of ability and you space retroportuali available for logistics activity. So the project of the platform multipurpose to Vado Ligure joins, a terminal container to completion of the offer available for the great ships and projected towards the market of the south Europe through independent a railway service. The analysis recently costs benefits developed from the Clas group has quantified the economic advantages for population and enterprises pairs to about a billion of euro and in about 465 million euros the environmental and climatic benefits".
To Monk they were you anticipate also representatives of from Liguria terminalisti that have evidenced the efforts completed from the operators for being ready to pick the challenges of the future of the international markets.
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