Published the ban of contest for the purchase of 66% of the Port of Livorno 2000



Today on the "Italiana Gazette" the ban of contest for the purchase of 66% of the capital of the Port of Livorno 2000 is published, the society controlled from Harbour Authority and Chamber of Commerce of Livorno that manages in monopoly regime the services of acceptance to the passengers in the port of the Leighorn city. The current associates of majority will maintain everyone 17% of the property.

"We are satisfied", the general secretary of the harbour authority has commented, Massimo Provinciali. "However behind schedule regarding the forecasts, but with remarkable engagement by the competent offices that have worked untiringly morning and evening to the drawing up of a complex and articulated contest - it has explained - we are today in a position to being able to start the iter that hence at the end of the year it will afford us to yield the control of Porto 2000 and to throw again, with it, the traffic of the cruises".

Between the conditions in order to participate to the contest, the candidate must cover the quality of manager of or more terminal dedicated to the field you ferry and/or cruises, with a not inferior volume to four million passengers and must have a relative turnover to such species of traffic, achieved in the three antecedent fiscal years the expiration date of the participation question, at least 22 million euros. Besides this the competitor must possess one of the others obligatorily three requirement: to cover the quality of manager, in the five antecedent years the expiration date for the presentation of the question, of navigation lines that have as prevailing activity those ferries and/or cruises; to cover the quality of shipping agent or raccomandatario in favor of lines of navigation of primary importance dedicated to the cruise and/or the ferry traffic of, with a turnover achieved in the three antecedent exercises the expiration date for the presentation of the question at least 2,5 million euros; to be a tour operator in the crocieristico market with a turnover achieved in the three exercises precedence not inferior to 30 million euros.

In order to acquire 66% of Porto 2000 they will serve 7.986.000 euros, that it is the amount made up of contest. The new appraisal, supplied from advisor KPMG - it has explained the Harbour Authority - is tied to the hypothesis of a delay of the maturity dates of the concession, that so it will be extended not beyond 2030, with expiration beginning from on January 1°, 2016. The perspective of a delay of the concession, whose lasted effective however it could be established in definitive way only on the base of the investments and the previewed occupational levels from the introduced Industrial Plan from the winner, the second Provincial is a certainty.

Provincial he has specified that a certainty is also the fact that the future associate of majority of Porto 2000 will go to operate on an immense area that goes from the side north of the Elba Pier to the Carrara Descent, with the addition of the Pisa Descent, Bordering and of approaches 46 and 47 of Alto Fondale. These last ones, today consented in concession to the Cilp society - it has remembered - already widely are used, in the passed years, in order to make to disembark the tourists of the colossus of the sea and today they are destined from the single Town development plan and only to the crocieristiche activities. To such purpose, an agreement with the same Harbour Company is reached in recent days in order to define the times and the modalities for the offshoring of the activities of handling of the forest produced ones to the Italy Pier, so as expected from the PRP: "We are - it has specified the general secretary of the Harbour Authority - in order to sign an understanding protocol that engages the parts to respect prescribed how much from the Portuale Town development plan. The understanding previews that to the Cilp equivalents to those today stopped and only partially compensated by the spaces on the Italy Pier are recognized operating areas".