the new Port Center of Livorno is born with the specific objective to approach the port the city



If one of the main scopes of the Port Center is that to make to approach and to make to comprise the port to the city that accommodates it, that inaugurated today to Livorno has had as first outcome that to make to meet to average road the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Giuliano Gallanti, with the mayor of the Four city of Mori, Filippo Nogarin. Difficult to say if the appointment has allowed also to stimulate a mutual understanding of the parts, but if only it can be the first step on the road to cover in order to overwhelm the discords emerged in the last year between the harbour Authority and the city administration.

A distance that can be under way only if the intention is had to reach the scope. Today Nogarin has expressed its absolute goodwill: I hope - it has asserted - "that the Harbour Authority of Livorno and the Municipality can work more and more arm in arm for the good of the territory. Livorno - it has added the mayor - is the example of as integration and the cultural contamination can reach levels of excellence and the Port Center is an instrument important in order to establish a constant dialogic relationship between the port and the city".

From when one takes care to administer Gallanti ports have placed to the center of its politics the necessity to make to converse port and city in order to assure a fruitful cohabitation. "It is useless to turn around - the extraordinary commissioner of the Leighorn harbour agency has restated - the modern ports to us are today an annoyance for the citizens". Neither it is convinced now that it is to Livorno, but of was sure also how much presided the Harbour Authority of Genoa: "memory for example - Gallanti has confirmed - as consul Batini, historical personage of Genoa, it regretted the times in which were the goods the several and not cursed boxes of metal that they have then begun to crowd the docks of the ports. I say clearly: today - it has emphasized Gallanti - it is more the port to need the city that not vice versa: Port Authority must often be confronted with the great international operators and if it did not have the city behind would risk not to count absolutely nothing".

Who knows as Gallanti, banquet as it is that between city and port must be symbiosis, judges the pieces and the rough drafts of the project of reform of the norm in harbour matter, legislative program in course from an eternity and that it seems is converging towards the confidence of the ports to a president-manager of governmental nomination, satisfying the expectations so of which they estimate the main ones you carry which strategic infrastructural assets the whose management must necessarily be under responsibility of State and of those who assimilate the ports to a company, than as such must necessarily be guided with I take entrepreneurial. Both visions that do not seem to at all hold account of the relationship between the port and its city, with first that they do not seem to understand that the harbour port of call cannot be a mere servitude for the city and with the second ones that does not give the impression to become account that the port can yes be compared to an engaged entrepreneurial group in the most varied activity fields, but that with the exception of any great multinational the port is confronted only and daily with a single territory and its community.

In the course of the inauguration of the Port Center of Livorno to evidence the important economic-social aspects of the relationship between port and city Umberto Masucci has thought us, national president of the The International Propeller Clubs, organization that he represents more than 1.300 present associates in the fields of the logistics, of the shipping and of the transports: "the Censis - it has remembered - has as soon as delivered us 5° the Relationship on the economy of the sea, explaining us as the marine economy produces more of 2% of the GDP and appoints to a job beyond 500 thousand people. Creed - it has found Masucci - that this aspect cannot be scisso from the topic of integration between the ports and the cities: it is necessary that ones and the others learn to respect themselves".

The new Port Center of Livorno is accommodated in the Mansion of the Captain inside of the Old Fortress. A prestigious container, word of one of the numerous visitors which reached foreign countries of exception in occasion of the inauguration: "what you have realized to Livorno - has commented the director of the Port Center of Antwerp, Philippe Demoulin - is something wonderful. Difficultly you would have found a place more apt of the Old Fortress in order to accommodate your Port Center, that it is to the center of the city and that today allows to still approach you more the citizens the harbour truth".

The new Port Center, that the beginning of the next year will be totally operating beginning from, will be technology concentrating, without for this the historical roots are forgotten about the Leighorn port of call. The origins of the port and its history, in fact, will be told to the public one through a multiprojector mounted on the ceiling of the room that it will make to rain on the visitors the salient moments of the history of the port, everyone symbolized from iconici elements that then will resort in the preparation.

Al center of the exhibition room the visitor will then have on hand "live one map" of the port that will visualize the traffic of the floating ones. On this virtual map it will be possible to consult the data updated relative to the single ships, to their route and speed.

It will be I placed possible to discover which are the types of goods of reference of the livornese port of call and the how many enlivened volumes of traffic. The visitor will find in fact, had on an appropriate exhibitor, a series of "narrating" objects, everyone chosen one in order to exemplify the various merceologiche categories of which it is wanted to be told origin, modality of storage, conditions of transport and volumes. The objects, enclosed in transparent cubes, contain to their inside an emitter of sign to radio frequency. Moved the object from the exhibitor to the central base, a video is activated that tells the origin of the goods, the relative volume of traffic and their displacements inside of the port.

In the Port Center moreover an emplacement entirely dedicated to the container will be prepared. A great projection video will show a Time lapse with the refuel/defuel of a container vessel, while to side one of the containers will come open and to its inside a display device from 32 inches will show of the relative contents to the history of the container.

Other panels will introduce to the visitor the several passages of the harbour and customs process, showing of its main elements, and will be also available an interactive videoproiezione in a position to describing the main aspects of the traffic of passengers in the port of Livorno, the interactions between the port, the city and the outback, the connection with main the logistic aces and the main harbour trades.

"In order to realize the Port Center of Livorno - the leader has explained promotion and studies of livornese Port Authority, Gabriele Gargiulo, that she has directed and followed the work of realization of the new exhibition center - we have reached to the best present experiences world-wise: Ashdod, Antwerp, Rotterdam have been only some of our points of reference. With this exhibition didactic center we want to try to astonish the visitor, putting it in condition for rediscovering own port and for appreciating it. We hope - one has hoped - than the public answers positively accorrendo in mass".

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