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In the port of Livorno "Mediterranean" the floating dock has returned in activity
Restarted the contest in order to establish who will have in concession the compendium of the basins
December 14, 2018
In the port of Livorno "Mediterranean" the floating dock has returned operating: the normal activities of towage suspended from August 2015, that is the day of the incident to the ship are in fact resumptions Uraniums. The summits of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea have announced today Northern, of the Municipality of Livorno and of the Harbour office announcing also the ripartenza of the public contest in order to establish who will have in concession the compendium of the basins, procedure announced publicly initially in the spring of the 2015 that is shared last week after a long period of stand-by that had seen the block of the floating dock because of the endured damages as a result of the incident. The AsdSP in fact has already sent the communications to the whom prequalified competitors, that they will have time until the end of January in order to send the demanded documentation.
While, in the blackberries of the allocation of the contest for the basins, the Benetti Yard has asked the local institutions a support in order to proceed from the next weeks to the launch operations and preparation in sea of three giga yachts of beyond 100 meters of length, than after four years of construction work, of huge investments for new infrastructures, potenziamento of the services, with some 800-900 people occupied and beyond five million hours worked, will receive their baptism of the water for being then delivered to their shipowners. As a result of the launch on "Mediterranean" the floating dock, the three ships will be moored along the dock of Large Basin (so-called 76), that it will come soon freed from an old crane of 80 meters that until today of it has interdict the use. In these last months the Adsp in fact has developed to a plan of mass in safety of the area, starting a procedure for the demolition of two harbour cranes outside service, it finds on 76 dock and the other on dock 78. In particular, the yard for the removal of the crane to the 76 already is prepared. The operation will allow to revoke the interdiction decree that until now prevented the use of the dock. The phase of preparation and test of the three giga yachts will engage some 300 people to floating for a period that varied between the six and seven months from the single launch.
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