«The Simplified Logistics Zone Port and hinterland of the Spezia is ready to be made operational." It made it The Ligurian regional councillor delegated to Development Alessio Piana, announcing that the "Liguria Region has promptly updated the strategic development, which had in a first version approved a June 2024, with the ministerial observations implemented on Friday last. All that remains - explained Piana - is to wait for the signature of the decree of the President of the Council of Ministers to start the 14 years of operation of the ZLS. Liguria Region, as was the case for the ZLS of Genoa, will preside over the steering committee in which representatives will also participate of the other regions involved".

The Simplified Logistics Zone Port and hinterland of La Spezia is an economic acceleration tool capable of creating favourable conditions for the development of new investments thanks to administrative and bureaucratic simplifications to which they will be able to companies within the identified area of 489 hectares and which includes, in addition to the Ligurian municipalities of Arcola, Follo, La Spezia, Santo Stefano Magra and Vezzano Ligure, the Emilian inland port sites of Parma, Noceto, Medesano, Fidenza and Fontevivo.

Federica Montaresi. Extraordinary Commissioner of the Authority of the Port System of the Eastern Ligurian Sea, expressed satisfaction with the announcement, recalling that "as an Authority of the Port System we have drawn up the development plan approved in June 2024 by the Liguria Region, which is updated with the ministerial observations transmitted in the recent days" and underlining that "the ZLS of La Spezia was born from a vision that has developed thanks to the presence of a hinterland that already today sees the hinterland area of Santo Stefano di Magra provide important services to goods. But as an AdSP - added Montaresi - we wanted to go further, building a FTA project that also embraces the territories of Emilia, an area that is not only geographical, but a harbinger of development and functionally connected to the port of Spezia".

"We are now waiting for certain times - concluded Montaresi - for the signing of the Prime Ministerial Decree establishing the FTA, ready to provide the our contribution to the steering committee. We thank the councillor Piana for the attention with which he is following this important initiative, strategic for the port of La Spezia and its natural hinterland".