«With the conclusion of the establishment process of the Zone Simplified Logistics, which took place in these days, a project for the development of the port of La Spezia and the vast area of which it is part, a great strategic value". This was underlined by the president of the System Authority Port of the Eastern Ligurian Sea, Bruno Pisano, commenting on the conclusion of the process for the establishment of the La Spezia FTA which will be operational for seven years plus any other seven. «I think is fundamental, for a whole series of logics, both operational and - added Pisano - that the inland port area of Santo Stefano is also extended to a wider area than to the areas of competence of our airport. It is important that within the FTA of the port of La Spezia are included both infrastructures with a logistical vocation, and therefore the hinterland of Santo Stefano Magra, both areas with exquisitely industrial vocation that insist in particular in the Emilia region. This allows you to create a a broad project of integrated logistics services that can, from a enhance the value of these territories and, on the other, so that the opportunities and the level of volumes managed by the port".

"The FTA - continued the president of the Port Authority - must be with a view to port-hinterland integration that pushes us to consider the port no longer just as the sum of piers and docks, but as a large logistical lung that includes all the areas dedicated to its service, the inflow and access routes, the markets and their areas of expertise. It is a project included in the PSA programmes for the next four years, years, and of which the ZLS, of course, becomes a piece extremely important, in order to enhance, simplify and attract new operators to our territory. The axis that is going to to be established, on which we will work together with all the affected parties, is essential to make the FTA effective. At Marina di Carrara - Pisano recalled - already exists, and is There we started working with the perspective, today, to also be able to make integrations between the Tuscan FTA and the Ligurian one, once they are both activated".

"With a view to a 'broad' vision - he concluded Pisano - an indispensable element then turns out to be Pontremolese, which I always prefer to call Tirreno-Brennero. Efforts to attain its completion must not be abandoned, and The body I preside over intends to do its part, together with the operators and institutions that have been fighting for years for this strategic infrastructure for the port and the territories concerned".