For a day to Livorno the debate on the port has been moved from material infrastructures to those immaterial ones



If in the last weeks to Livorno the topic of the portualità perlopiù is centralized on the project for the realization of the new terminalistica area of the Europe Platform, today the argument has been moved on immaterial infrastructures and it has been spoken about innovation, solutions INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY for the marine transport and nets wireless based on the wi-fi. The occasion in order to move the attention on these aspects of the modern portualità is offered by the second edition of the "Port Innovation Day", the organized workshop from the Harbour Authority of Livorno in collaboration with the National Consortium Interuniversitario of Telecommunications (CNIT) that it has engaged for all the day operating international and expert of field in a debate that has had to the center of the reflectors the experiences of innovation of the European ports and those of the Leighorn port of call.

The challenges and the opportunities offered from the new technologies are very anticipate to the Harbour Authority: "the challenge to win for the next years - the general secretary of the agency has confirmed, Massimo Provinciali - is that to create a Harbour Authority of system that it knows to answer as fast as possible to the market requirements, that it knows to develop innovative solutions that they facilitate the synergies with infrastructures of the hinterland and that it knows to share services and info-structures with near ports. Under this point of view - it has emphasized Provincial - I can assert with a pride touch that the Authority is succeeding to become the pivot of the system of the enterprises, of the institutions and the academic world in the field of the technological innovation".

Also the mayor has evidenced the importance of innovation the variable technology as heavy in terms of enterprise: "often - it has found Filippo Nogarin - the great visions of the future are born from a simple intuition. Task to 3M, society that has become famous thanks to the invention of the Post it note: a simple, banal draft of idea, that but an age has revolutionized. Here, today I am happy for being as watching here in order to understand which of the intuitions in technological field introduced by the Harbour Authority of Livorno will have the force to revolutionize the way to make enterprise in the port of Livorno. I have the hope that this day becomes flies in order to throw again a new idea of community that sees the administrations and the companies engaged in a distance of requalification of the Leighorn port of call".

"From La Spezia to Piombino - it has observed the leader strategic Development of the Harbour Authority, Antonella Querci - the Leighorn port of call is in the middle of a cluster whose nodes are equalizzati along the same director TRIES. The cluster of Alto Tirreno can today aim at to become an important point gateway, of unwinds of the goods towards the markets of Europe center-oriental. To head at the technological innovation wants to say to return this point attractive gateway, wants to say also to put in Livorno correlation with physically far ports, as those placed along the side south of the Mediterranean, with which we are realizing strong synergies". The participation of the Harbour Authority of Livorno to the commission ad hoc of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) for the innovation in the European ports, the collaboration with the National Consortium Interuniversitario of the Telecommunications and with the ETSI (European Telecommunications Institute Standard) on the front of the standardization of the informative systems of the ports and the numerous initiatives promoted in the field of the INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - Antonella Querci has rimarcato - is the aces on which investing in order to make of Livorno a port smart, connected, standard and technologically advanced.

Own with these objectives today the Harbour Authority has undersigned with Livorno Confindustria the protocol of understanding "Industrial Port Innovation: agenda of the innovation for the future of the port of Livorno. Infrastructures, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY and ITS for a port of new generation". With the agreement the parts have been engaged to equip the port of a net of wired communication to high speed to support of the industrial and logistic activities, to structure in port new systems of measure founded also on the development of a sensoristica not still commercial and to develop the already existing platforms of type Port Community System (PCS) and of type Port Monitoring System (PMS), with the aim to equip to the port of a center services and control.

"The protocol - Simone Genovesi has explained, president of Innovative Terziario of Livorno Confindustria - takes to the way from a logic bottom up of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, that it is that to put itself in listening of the enterprises". "This understanding - it has added the president of Livorno Confindustria, Alberto Ricci - strengthens the collaboration between Authority and confindustriali. Through the technological innovation they can be reached turned out important in the row of the logistics".

In the course of the today's encounter it is remembered that own in order "to make system" the Harbour Authority of Livorno has elaborated services for the harbour community as the Tuscan Port Community System, the modern computerized platform that affords to all the interested subjects to communicate from each other and to follow carefully the distance of the goods, from the ship to destination. The TPCS - it has announced the responsible Ufficio strategic projects of the harbour agency, Paolo Scarpellini - has been time enriched of new functionalities that return it interoperabile with the platforms of the Mediterranean area in order to support the lines of traffic with the greater ports of the Africa North. The objective is to guarantee progressive integration with the European intermodal corridors of transport, is through the net of the Port Community System is with the computerized systems of the multimodali logistic platforms iron-rubber.

During the last few years Livorno also has succeeded to improve the services of traceability of the goods being instituted controlled corridors that they allow to by sea clear the produced ones in arrival during the transport from the port to the hinterland. "The secure corridor - the responsible Ufficio has said innovation and technologies of the Harbour Authority, Francesco Papucci - will be a truth for Livorno in the next few months thanks to the understandings developed with interposing to you and thanks to the collaboration with the Agency of Customs". Under this point of view, two are the fronts opened from the harbour agency in the within of integration between port and retroporto: the Platform Port Monitoring System, that the positioning of the ship, the directory of the dangerous passengers affords to visualize in technology 3D various useful data which and the goods and the level of maintenance of systems and infrastructures, and Medium, a platform to low cost for the traceability of the trucks, the towings, you semitow and reserviors in the within of the established intermodal corridors between European logistic subjects.

Moreover, in railway field, the Harbour Authority works in order to get in touch the TPCS with the integrated platform logistic of the group Italian Railroads of the State, with the scope to eliminate the missing links, lacking connections is on the side of import (the composition train, coupling wagon-train, etc) that on that of export (the reservation trains in arrival, window operativity ships, etc) and to return competitive Livorno for when the works of railway infrastructuring of the commercial port are realized. Integration iron-sea is one of the priorities of the harbour agency, that it has the objective to above all increase the percentage of traffic on track in import.

Taking part to the debate on the "Scenes, perspectives and proposals for European politics of innovation of the ports", the civil employee of the Harbour Authority, Francealberto De Bari, have specified that the innovation is not but only a technology problem, but also of politics and governance: "the European ports - De Bari has remembered - are introducing as ESPO their requirements in topic of INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY in order to do so as that the EU values the ports more and more. The harbour ports of call are not alone infrastructures key of the European industry (not port, not industry), but also volani for the introduction of technological solutions advances destined then to transform the face of the logistic systems, the cities (smart cities) and of same ours draft of life".

The conclusive session of the Port Innovation Day, coordinated from De Bari, has seen the participation of all the more important institutional players: the Tuscany Region, the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, ESPO and the EU commission.