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The port of gets ready to close the 2018 with a traffic of the container record
To Carrara +8.6% are enlivened 57 thousand teu (). In the 2019 reduction of the additional one on the harbour tax
December 20, 2018
The port of gets ready to close year 2018 with a traffic of the container that in all probability will reach the level record of about 1,48 million container, with an increment of +0.5% on 2017 when the precedence was established peak with 1,47 million teu. The previewed total of enlivened containerized trade 2018 is announced today by president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Orientale, Carla Roncallo, than with the general secretary Francesco Di Sarcina it has illustrated the representatives of prints the main activities carried out from the agency in the course of this year.
Relatively to the traffic of the passengers, this year to the passengers in transit have been 471,652 (+3.7%), while those previewed for the 2019 will go up to about 750.000, with 186 confirmed ports of call.
As for the port naval of Carrara, also it administered from the AdSP of the Liguria oriental, in the 2018 traffic of the container has been pairs to about 57 thousand teu (+8.6%), on a total of the traffic of the goods pairs to 2,5 million tons (+9%), and that of the passengers to beyond 23 thousand people (+32%).
"On the whole, therefore – it has emphasized Roncallo - the Ligurian Sea Oriental boasts turned out a lot important, especially in the within of the containerized transport with beyond 1,5 million teu enlivened that they place it to the first places in the panorama of the national portualità".
The president of the AdSP has evidenced that the consolidation of the volumes of traffic of the 2018 is reflected also on the course of the taxes and the harbor dues that also this year, added to the state property canons, will exceed 30 million euros, with a remainder financial current previewed in about 13 million euros. "Therefore, and to the aims to increase the international competitiveness of our system – he has explained - he has decided himself, for year 2019, experimentally, to reduce the additional one on the harbour tax, than currently he records at the expense of the cargo/disembarked in the measure of 30 cent/ton. The additional one will come therefore capacity for the next year to 15 cent to ton".
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