More pragmatism and less theory. So it can
the request for a revival of the port of La Spezia, which
the local port community directs the Port Authority to
Port System of the Eastern Ligurian Sea, with which - specify
In a note, La Spezia port operators - commit themselves "to
fight in close symbiosis", ready - specifies the president
of the Association of Shipping Agents of La Spezia, Giorgia
Bucchioni - alongside the president of the AdSP, Mario Sommariva,
targeted and effective actions that are consistent with history and
the expectations of the city's port.
According to the port community, the guidelines to be pursued
are those aimed at making the port of La Spezia the terminus of
new intra-Mediterranean trades, to intensify efforts to
a revival of the leading container sector through new
forms of synergy with industries, especially in the Emilia area
Romagna, to aim at the conquest of plant engineering and
of exceptional loads, also with a view to a reconstruction
strategic areas of the Mediterranean and to establish a
with cruise lines to offer a range of
destinations for passengers who go ashore.
For Bucchioni, it is necessary to avoid "dispersing
resources': 'The time is right, also in the light of the
Risk of credibility crisis looming over the port sector
and in particular the Ligurian one - he explains - to roll up their sleeves
and also on the marketing front, recover seriousness and
effectiveness. That La Spezia port system that was a symbol
of the success in past years must return to the field and must as before
What to prevent processes from being stopped, what is to be done is to prevent them from being stopped?
infrastructural interventions, which the professionalism of which the
Fortunately, Spezia is gifted, they are not suffocated in the
mare magnum of polemics, inquiries and a vision
destructive of the economy."
"Never before - adds Salvatore Avena,
the CEO of La Spezia Port Service - the community
La Spezia is called upon to make a common front and
with the Chairman of the Port System Authority,
targeting traffic targets that are within reach, too
in the strategic container sector. Objectives that risk
disperse in the great chatter about maximum systems as well as
in political clashes that the port of La Spezia cannot
allow the luxury of facing and even less of considering
priorities for its future. We need to recover," Avena continues
the roots on which in the past decades - concludes Avena - the
Porto has made its role flourish, which is also unique in the panorama
and thus relaunch an equally unique message
efficiency and concreteness, strengths that are more necessary today
than ever in the panorama of uncertainty that characterizes trade
maritime maritime by sea, but also port governance
national level'.