Request of Royal Caribbean and MSC in order to manage the crocieristico traffic in the port of



The Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Oriental has announced that in recent days to the agency a request by the crocieristiche companies Royal Caribbean and MSC is introduced Cruises for parternariato a public-private face to the taken one in cargo of the services to the section of the cruises in the port of.

"The introduced request - Carla Roncallo has announced, president of the AdSP - previews that the service comes at first carried out thanks to the current structures, constituted from the Garibaldi Pier side the west and the existing terminal cruises. Afterwards, as soon as realized the new pier, the service will be widened and will be able to leave the proposed investments, relative to the construction of a new one and more wide terminal, functional to the necessity to widen the service more ships, comprising also a multifunctional building that will be used after parkings, you space for services technical-nautical, you space for charterings of car, motion and bicycles. With the new structure, they are previewed also you space dedicated to the exercise of sport activity, through the realization, always by proposing, of a city park dedicated to the sport. The hinge between the two buildings, will be constituted by a cover much wide, than, above all in absence of ships, as often it happens evening in time, it will constitute a great covered space, of public valence, for concerts and manifestations of any genre, with I use analogous therefore to that of other similar truths".

Roncallo has specified that the documentation will be necessary to verify "the thoroughness of all, so as expected by the enforced norm, and will be demanded integrations if necessary. In any case - it has specified - in next the ninety days we will have to carry out a groundbreaking job in order to examine the economic plan financial and in order to estimate the project of feasibility proposed, acquiring on this also a preliminary matter to seem from the Municipality and the subjects publics you premail".

"We will express ourselves however within such term - it has added Carla Roncallo - about the declaration of public interest of the proposal. In case positive, as expected from the norm, a contest procedure will set off, to which all the subjects interested in possession of necessary requirement will be able to participate. Entrusting the service to the new subject that will adjudicate the contest we will be able among other things, to proceed to the mass in liquidation of APLS and Discover".

Emphasizing that on the topic of the cruises, than to the territory they break are carrying wealth and tourism, "is gone ahead therefore", the president of the Authority of Harbour System has evidenced the necessity of "being fast in the realization of the structures, way - it has explained - to achieve the intentional result to consolidate the fleeting traffics shortly and to make them to grow as soon as the new pier and the new terminal will be completed. This - it has continued - is an element a lot important, that at all it was not discounted, also in consideration of the great investments already previewed in the bordering ports, elements these that, in lack of interests as that object of the introduced request, in the time could radically have reduced our competitiveness in the crocieristico field".

Roncallo has concluded manifesting more the weever satisfaction for a proposal that, considers, it will not be able that to carry great benefits to the economy of the territory and that - has remembered - "draft of an important dowel of the waterfront, initiative that will see protagonists is the Municipality, is the Authority of Harbour System, within a wider project, than, personally I imagine light and above all respectful of the general context within which it is set and that indeed it can give back to the city I put forward it to sea that today in that zone it is precluded to them".