The Port Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea has welcomed the proposal formulated in recent days by the association of freight forwarders of La Spezia., through the president Alessandro Laghezza, about the opportunity to identify buffer areas serving the ports of La Spezia and Marina of Carrara useful for decongesting the main access routes to the two port ports. Highlighting that the port authority is to be time alongside hauliers, the extraordinary commissioner of the Port Authority, Federica Montaresi, specified that the proposal of the is "in line with the initiatives that the Port Authority has been carrying out the issue for some time road transport".

The port authority recalled that in recent years, even thanks to the tracking system by means of buoys installed at the Stagnoni gate in the port of La Spezia and useful for measuring the time of permanence of heavy vehicles in port, has carried out surveys that highlighted all the main issues and provided a useful tool to be able to deepen analysis and build solutions also in terms of digital services to support of road transport, some of which have already been tested and implemented. In addition, the body recalled that it has launched initiatives on several fronts, to formulate answers that integrate aspects of a with innovative technological solutions, capable of support the port system in all logistical phases of the and to achieve a degree of efficiency such as to minimize the costs of their transfer, progressively reducing the time taken to permanence of heavy vehicles in port. "In recent years - he highlighted the Port Authority in a note - have in fact been budgeted about two million euros for the implementation of some projects European funds (Ursa Major neo, MERIDIAN, ACCESSMILE, Easy2Log) and funds PNRR and PCS, in the field of the digitalisation of road transport, making it possible to create: a new camera system intelligent monitoring of the square in front of the Gate Stagnoni; a system for punctual detection of vehicles to and from Santo Stefano Magra in the logic of the Single Customs Window and Controls (S.U.DO.CO.) and the Service of General Interest of the port-inland port road shuttle; the creation of a module dedicated to road transport within the services offered by the Port Community System platform; An experiment, thank you to some road haulage companies, the management system of advance notice of arrival at the port that allows you to exchange, in advance, information on the goods and flows arriving at the port".

"They are currently in the development phase - continues the note - the sharing of new travel information through the PCS module dedicated to road transport and the creation of a new data aggregation system that allows to be able to carry out the management of warnings more effectively, monitoring the entry and exit of goods through the gate Stagnoni. Finally, during 2024, the Port Authority implemented a study aimed at identifying available areas in the vicinity of the port and the hinterland of Santo Stefano di Magra in order to be able to expand the range of services to goods in transit by road, always with the aim of speeding up operations and reducing the time of waiting for heavy vehicles. Some areas have been identified, intermodal platform under the responsibility of the Port Authority which, if suitably equipped, could represent a possible buffer area for containers arriving at the port of the Spezia, facilitating loading and unloading functions in areas not affected by congestion, allowing it to be subsequently transfer to the port at the time of actual embarkation or in time slots, day or night, not affected by flows significant vehicular vehicles. All this for the benefit road transport, port terminals and the environment".