In the first semester of the 2015 port of Livorno it has enlivened beyond 380 thousand container (+37.5%)



The Harbour Authority of Livorno has announced that in the first semester of the 2015 Leighorn port of call it has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to beyond 380 thousand teu, volume that are not still pairs to beyond 400 thousand teu enlivened in the first semester of 2008, own when the economic crisis was being sharpened world-wide, but represents however a decided increment of +37.5% regarding the first six months of 2014. The harbour agency has specified that the data of the first half of this year, moreover, is temporary as the enlivened containerized volumes from some terminalisti lack to the appeal.

The harbour authority has evidenced that in according to trimester of this year port it is successful to still more better make regarding the trimester precedence when 172,322 teu (+32% were enlivened) and that, regarding the results achieved in the period January-March of 2015, they have contributed to the boom also handling of full containers (+4.7% in general terms and +8.7% to the boarding), while the handling of the empty containers has been reduced that is come down from +23.9% of first trimester 2015 to +18.4% of entire the first semester of the year.

The statistical data reveal moreover that the increase regarding the first six months of 2014 is not determined only by the transfer traffic, than are also increased passing from 10% last year to 25.7% of the first semester: to clearly of the operations of transhipment, the relative traffic containers to the period January-june of 2015 is making for the moment to mark a +7.8% regarding the first half of the 2014 (in the first trimester 2015 increment had been of +5.2%).

To the increment of the traffic containers it has made followed also an increase of the number of the ports of call: regarding the first semester last year, in fact, they have been the 488 container vessels landed to Livorno, that is 81 units in more regarding the 407 last year. Regarding the first six months of 2014, the ships full hand container have always grown, as well as in numerical terms, also with reference to the total tonnage (+5 million tonnage regarding how much recorded last year) and to the tonnage medium unitarian (+5,443 tons). The medium ability to these ships is increased also: those with a advanced cargo ability to the 5,000 teu are increased very 30 units.

"Livorno - it has emphasized the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti - is the port that has grown per cent more in the first six months of the year. If we will maintain this rhythm also in the second part of 2015, we could succeed to exceed the historical records of 700 thousand annual handlings totaled in 2007 and 2008. The Leighorn port of call returns to being in the Mediterranean a port of international level".

The general secretary of the harbour agency, Massimo Provinciali, has specified that to push on the strong increase of Livorno they have been, among other things, the return in the Leighorn port of call of important companies of navigation as MSC, UASC, ZIM and Evergreen. "He breathes himself around the port - he has found Provincial - a new climate of confidence. I like to be able to think that a small part of merit we to us have also: the Town development plan Portuale finally approved of, the executed dredgings and those under confidence, and the hope of the Europe Platform has projected Livorno directly towards the future. I add since me it is particularly to heart because it does not regard the goods, but the workers: the days worked from ALP, death society at the end of 2014, are passed by the 224 of January to the 749 of june. A confirmation of the goodness of the strategy put in field".