First appraisal of the opportunities offered from integration of the ports of La Spezia and Carrara



Today to a convention has held in order to make a first appraisal of the opportunities offered from the amalgamation of the Harbour Authorities of La Spezia and naval of Carrara, encounter that has been organized from the associations of the shipping agents and the shippers of and from the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Oriental, the agency who has been born from the fusion of the two harbour authorities, aggregation - it has evidenced in the course of the Ivano Russo convention, adviser of the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, that it constitutes "the outpost of the correct application of the reform".

According to president of the AdSP of the Ligurian Sea Orientale this integration constitutes "an optimal opportunity": I do not have doubts, but it is logical that it is so, than - it has specified Carla Roncallo - us will want some time in order to realize it compiutamente, even if I am convinced that the entered road is that right one".

The presidents of the associations of the shipping agents and the shippers spezzini, Andrea Fontana and Alessandro Laghezza, have stopped themselves on the too many administrative and bureaucratic barriers that prevent to the performance of the reform (customs competences, of professional reference, Chambers of Commerce), so on the concrete perspectives of this integration. Laghezza has thrown again the concept of "laboratory", emphasizing the requirement that the territory and the local community is benefitted of the fallen back ones of a traffic that cannot be only of fast transit of the goods. Fontana has emphasized as the complex denomination of the new harbour Authorities of system (included that of the Ligurian Sea Oriental) is preposterous from the point of view of the international marketing, launch the idea of a competition of ideas for giving a name to the new Authorities.

Stefano Zunarelli, teacher to the University of Bologna and between the greater administrative experts of the field you transport, has supported the possibility for Italy to ask as system country the European Union the authorization an Economic Zone Special collective for its arranges harbour, because of the persistent economic crisis of the country or, in alternative, to proceed to an operation of filings and adjustment in local center of the norms in order to return these logistic areas more convenient for the international investor.

In the course of the convention the project of development and environmental and architectonic compatibility of the new logistic pole of Santo Stefano di Magra is introduced by the Authority of Harbour System, project written up from the Dad of the University of Genoa (Carlo Alberto Cozzani and Massimiliano Giberti).