the port of Livorno has examined the possibilities to increase the traffic of the forest produced ones



The port of Livorno has explored today the possibilities to increase the traffic of the forest produced ones, than already today it is one of the main segments of activity of the port of call with a volume enlivened in the 2014 pairs to 2,1 million tons of which 1,4 million not unitizzate and 700 thousand in container, in the course of a specific organized workshop from the Harbour Authority of the Leighorn port of call.

"The numbers - it has emphasized managing promotion of the harbour agency, Gabriele Gargiulo - explain more than every other thing the potentialities of Livorno. The port is always more one of the points of reference of the countries of South America, as Uruguay, Chile and Brazil, than in the 2014 they have had an incidence of 56% on the forest quota goods altogether enlivened to Livorno. Our force - it has remembered - is represented by the relative vicinity to the paper factories and by the availability of covered warehouses, beyond 200 thousand square metres of areas between port and retroporto".

Gianpaolo Vitali of the IRCRES, the institute of the National Research Council that has realized with the harbour authority a study detailed on the perspectives of development of this type of goods, has evidenced the occupational fallen back ones generated by the traffic of the forest ones: "more than 500 workers - it has emphasized - they work full-time in the several phases of the working cycle in which it can be subdivided handling of the forest one". Draft moreover of an esteem for defect, than does not consider the generated indirect impact on the remainder of the city economy from the involved harbour enterprises neither takes in consideration all those which work in the paper factories.

The representatives of the operating ones have found the imbalance of the traffic between import and export: the forest produced ones are in fact mostly goods disembarked in the port of Livorno from the ships breakbulk, while export activity is not previewed even if in future the loss of balance could be reduced: "Italy - it has observed the vice president of the association of the livornesi shipping agents Asamar, Enrico Bonistalli - has an excellence in the working of the raw materials and can reach high levels of quality on the finished product one. The export it becomes one of the challenges for the future".

The necessity is found also to strive in order to maintain the traffics existing: "we have necessity - for Italy of the company of Norwegian navigation Grieg Star has explained vice-president, Lucia Filippi - of quality of docks, with adequate draught and above all of bonded warehouses nearby of the dock for the immediate shelter of the goods, that he is sensitive to the conditions weather".

In its participation the president of the association of the livornesi shippers Spedimar, Gloria Dari, has announced of having to the examination with the Harbour Authority the hypothesis to reduce the harbour taxes for the row of the coming forest produced ones from the European Union, with the objective to return more competitive the Livorno port regarding the ports of call of the Europe North. "We hope - it has specified - to succeed to already reach a concrete result for the next year".

Targe Bock, logistic manager of Fibria, Brazilian group that is one of the main actors of the market of the forest produced ones, has confirmed the primary role of the Leighorn port of call in this field: "Livorno - it has asserted - is one of the four ports of which we use in the Mediterranean, strategic area which we assign 25% of our total cargo. Livorno in perspective can become our hub model".

Of the same Raimond Montt warning, logistic director and transports of Chilean CMPC, also it between the main operators in the section of the forest ones and the cellulose, that it has emphasized as "n Italy Livorno does not have competitor that they can put it in difficulty, the competitors - it has specified - finds in Europe, is with they that it must get to terms".

Also Yari Nieminem of Finn UPM, primary company of the same field, has spoken about the strategic role of Livorno: "in the first nine months of the year - it has announced - we have made to embark for Livorno 144 thousand tons of goods, against 207 thousand tons altogether sent in 2014, and 122 thousand tons of 2013. As it can be seen, we have diverted on the Leighorn port of call increasing volumes of goods, to new evidence of the importance that the port covers for our company".

Between the advanced proposals in order to allow an ulterior development with Livorno of this segment of traffic, that of Giorgio Neri, managing director of Sea Black, society of shipments and harbour activities, previews "a forest new great area for and the goods several on the side the West of the Tuscany Dock" once realized the project of the Europe Platform.