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Completed the work of dredging to the Tuscany Dock of Livorno
the backdrops are deepened to -13 meters
May 23, 2016
The Harbour Authority of Livorno has announced today the completion of the work of dredging to the Tuscany Dock, work of deepening of the backdrops that - it has emphasized the agency - is the more realized important in the last few decades.
The participation is carried out in little more three months, from on 17 February today, the temporary association of enterprises that the contest, constituted from the Italian Society Dredgings and the Labromare has won, that it has employed the Marieke dredge in order to remove about 700 thousand cubic metres of sediments. The dredging has allowed also to reach another result: as a result of the realized banchinamento last year, in fact is activated to the root of the east side of the Tuscany Dock the new one approaches 15 and.
"Thanks to the dredging of the Tuscany Dock - the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority has explained, Giuliano Gallanti - all the destined watery mirror to the container vessels now has a depth of 13 meters. As we have many times over restated, in these years we have not hesitated to invest million and million euro also to modernize the existing port of call. Now we are able to receive without problems the ships from eight thousand teus and to face at best it anticipates in waited for that come true the Europe Platform".
The ambient leader and safety of the harbour agency, Giovanni Motta, have remembered that the participation in Tuscany Dock will not be the last operation of dredging of this year: "soon - it has specified - we will take part also on the mouth south of the outer harbor. The objective is to remove about other 300 thousand cubic metres of sediments and to so allow a easyr transit with the ships of large tonnage, also in difficult conditions weather".
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The Harbour Authority of Livorno has announced today the completion of the work of dredging to the Tuscany Dock, work of deepening of the backdrops that - it has emphasized the agency - is the more realized important in the last few decades.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
