Today at the Old Fortress of Livorno the port cluster called by the Port System Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea for a comparison on the update of the institution's sustainability report, drawn up for the first time time in 2022, that the president of the authority, Davide Gariglio, considered it necessary given that sustainability, social and and resilience have now become crucial factors for measuring the competitiveness of a port or a system and that these factors cannot constitute a real competitive advantage without the concrete support of companies and of port operators. Highlighting that the Port Authority "is not a private company, but a piece of the State and the expression of a community", at the opening of the work Gariglio explained that "the Port Authority makes sense only and only if it has behind it terminal operators, technical-nautical services, port companies, services of general interest. I would like the confrontation - he specified - was a method to be used Permanently and continuously for all business areas of the institution".

Within the framework of this participatory approach, Gariglio has announced the States General of the Ports, an initiative that takes the moved by the observation of the scarcity of resources available to meet all the needs of infrastructural modernization of the ports of the System: "we want to - he explained - to make everyone sit around the table and discuss the priorities that will define operational strategies of the port authority over the next four years",

On the occasion of today's meeting, the System Authority Portuale Toscana has announced that in the sustainability report in 2025, an ad hoc section on the impacts of the of major infrastructure works, starting with from the Darsena Europa, which will be a real game changer of the national port system. During the meeting, a draft of the Resilience Plan, which constitutes a first systematic reflection on the exposure of the port infrastructures to adverse climatic events.