To Livorno it is being thought to anticipate the start of the realization of the terminal ro-ro of the Europe Platform



The Harbour Authority of Livorno is estimating the hypothesis to anticipate the performance the second phase of the project of the Europe Platform. The first phase previews the construction of a container terminal with an investment of 866 million euros, work for which is on a public debate ( on 1° March 2016), and the agency is taking in consideration the opportunity meanwhile launch a ban of contest for the construction of according to destined terminal to handling of the rotabili. The extraordinary commissioner of the harbour agency, Giuliano Gallanti has announced today, participating to the table of the unitary assets of the delegates of the unions Cgil, Cisl and Uil.

Gallanti has found that if in the city episodes of social alarm are recorded still today legacies to the business crises, in port is happening an increase of the activity that has carried in the first trimester of this year an increment of the traffic of the container pairs to +14%. Gallanti has evidenced that such development is yields of the job carried out in these years: "we have approved of the Portuale Town development plan - it has remembered - and are continuing to invest hundred of million euro in the current port and soon all the commercial port of call will have backdrops not less than -13 meters, what this that allows us to receive without problems the ships from 7-8mila teu".

Gallanti but has specified that the port anticipates of the infrastructural limits that stop the potentialities of some merceologici fields, as note that of the rotabili, one of the Cores business of Livorno. The Leighorn port of call, for its same conformation, does not have in fact many approaches poppieri to put on of the ships ro-ro. From the hypothesis to reduce the times of realization of the second phase of the Europe Platform here.

"The destined terminal to the rotabili - the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority has explained moreover - would have much inferior costs of realization regarding that of the container, wants because for the ro-ro large investments of equipment are not necessary, you want because the outer works we will already realize them during the first phase of the Europe Platform".

"We are estimating the situation - it has concluded Gallanti - shortly we will make of the concrete proposals".