Agreement of cooperation between the ports of Livorno and Piombino



It is looked on to by some as an anticipated effect of the new order of the governance of the Italian ports that would have to be introduced shortly, as promised from the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio. If it is some they speak in the past also as one about the many tight agreements of collaboration from the Harbour Authorities, some anchor in vigor, others unofficially melted for divergence or ascertained lack of common interests.

Today to Rome, to the presence of minister Delrio and the president of the Region Tuscany, Enrico Rossi, the presidents of the Harbour Authorities of Livorno and Piombino, Giuliano Gallanti and Luciano Guerrieri, they have undersigned an agreement of program for the realization of the Tuscan Harbour System. Since the declared scope is to create "a vituous system of collaboration and sharing of actions, instruments and professionality" seem lawful to speak about understanding of "according to type" rather than of fusion of harbour agencies as those which it is said (but every voice in so far as has been during the last few years ready refutation) would come taxes from the new one slowly of rearranges of the Italian portualità. To the fusion, in case, Delrio will think us, but it is an eventuality, as for a long time many signs make to intend, completely improbable, as it has seemed to confirm the same minister emphasizing that the today's agreement "is the demonstration that the synergies previewed from the Strategic Plan of the Logistics and the Portualità can be anticipated and put into practice with the good administration".

The president of the Tuscany Region has placed its imprimatur on the understanding, of which craftsman has declared itself: "I have strongly intentional this agreement - Enrico Rossi has explained - because it is the European Union that says us to go ahead in this direction, a road that begins today and that he will afford to the Tuscan landings place to enter to take part of the family of the European ports". ""In Tuscany - it has observed - seen things happen up to now never: before they put entirety Pisa and Florence for the airports, today Livorno and Piombino for the ports".

The agreement for the realization of the Tuscan Harbour System, than in perspective is opened also to the port of Carrara, includes between the purposes integration of the Triennial Operations plans of the two Harbour Authorities, sets in action coordinated in order to accompany with initiatives of search and technological innovation the infrastructural development and of the traffics and in order to increase energy efficiency and the sustainability of the two harbour ports of call, initiatives of coordination and sharing that regard the area of the services and that administrative one, the formation and the valorization of the vital human.

Between the infrastructural projects that regard the two carry the agreement in the first place define strategic the realization to Livorno of the Europe Platform, then the participations of potenziamento and railway and intermodal connection between the two ports and the national net, therefore the potenziamento of the road structure of the harbour area of Piombino, with the completion of the Gagno-Montegemoli riser, in a position to directly connecting the port to the A12, and the completion of the participations of realization of the Portuale Town development plan of Piombino.

The understanding previews also the immediate constitution by the two Harbour Authorities of a common working group and coordination in order to accelerate the procedures of planning, approval and realization of the projects in program. The agreement includes also the engagement of the two agencies to constitute in the immediate one and to frequently convene a table of partnership of the resource sea composed from all the actors of the harbour and logistic system.