The Neapolitan shipowner group Grimaldi, through its terminal company Terminal Darsena Toscana (TDT), has submitted an application for the construction and management of 50% of the Terminal Darsena Europa, the new platform in the port of Livorno which in the first phase of the project involves the construction of a container terminal and in the second of a terminal for the traffic of passengers and rolling stock.

This was announced yesterday by the Authority's extraordinary commissioner of Port System of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Luciano Guerrieri, on the sidelines of the Management Committee which approved the final balance sheet and the annual report of the entity. The Port Authority has specified that the subject of the request states that the request of the Grimaldi Group's terminal operator is aimed at ensuring the operational continuation of the terminal activity, in particular related to a project proposal for the reorganization of the areas and docks under concession. Together with the application for management of a portion of the Darsena Europa, TDT has in fact presented a application for modification of the content of the state concession having the retrocession of 150,000 square meters of areas and 492 square meters linear meters of docks and the corresponding acquisition of 194,000 square meters of areas and 600 linear meters of insistent platforms on the Darsena Europa Terminal. At the same time, the company requested the extension of the duration of the current concession, to an extent appropriate to the investments and the project industrial proposals.