A Dutch diplomatic delegation visiting to the port of Livorno



Today a Dutch diplomatic delegation has met the summits of the Harbour Authority of Livorno in occasion of the initiative "Olandiamo in Tuscany" that the Dutch embassy has organized in order to promote relationships between institutions, civil society, world of the culture, the enterprises and the search. The objective has been that "to speak about opportunity of collaboration between the port of Livorno and the Low Countries, with particular reference to the contracts publics, harbour infrastructures and the logistics in the Leighorn port of call".

In the center of the Harbour Authority to Rosciano Palace the Dutch ambassador to Rome, Michiel den Hond, the economic attache' to the embassy, Chris Schoenmakers, and the Dutch consul to Livorno, Alberto Batini (brother of Nicoletta, which candidated from the mayor of the Leighorn city to the presidency of the Harbour Authority) has met the extraordinary commissioner and the general secretary of the agency, Giuliano Gallanti and Massimo Provinciali. In the course of the reunion it has been discussed among other things about the development plans of the port stopping itself in particular on the Europe Platform, on the project of railway infrastructuring of the Tuscany Dock and on that relative one to the realization to Livorno of modern a hub for the distribution of the which liquified natural gas.

Referring to the new container terminal of the Europe Platform that will behind rise of the Terminal Tuscany Dock, den Hond has found that draft of "an important work. Your port - it has added - can indeed aspire to become an excellence port of call, above all if it succeeds to equip itself, as I have felt, of a modern railway net that directly connects it to national the road net". The Dutch diplomat has evidenced the possibilities in order to increase the commercial exchanges with Italy through the port of Livorno: "we export every year in Italy - it has explained - 22 million tons of goods via truck, while we import eight million. We could work entirety because those trucks do not return empty in Holland".

The ambassador has observed that currently Rotterdam is the chosen port from the enterprises of Milan, affirmation that a stimulus constitutes more rather than a critic in confronts of the Italian ports: he is - in fact he has specified - for a single reason: it is more convenient to send the goods in Europe oriental, or elsewhere, passing from the Dutch port rather than from a any Italian harbour port of call. If Italy - it has concluded den Hond - succeeded to exceed own gap, investing on the technological innovation and the intermodalismo, it could try to invert this tendency".