“TDT’s business plan is being assessed by our personnel, I have asked them to speed things up, so it can be discussed, if not by December, by mid-January. It will be presented to our partnership body and our management committee.” This is what Port Network Authority President, Luciano Guerrieri, told the newspaper il Tirreno, stressing that everyone’s priority is to make sure container traffic is both maintained and developed in the area, in line with the provisions of the Port Masterplan, which does not exclude the possibility of developing other traffic, provided that the main one is not called into question.
In the interview Mr. Guerrieri also had the opportunity to respond to the President of Confindustria Livorno-Massa Carrara, Piero Neri, who had recently accused him of being unwilling to consider ideas and proposals from companies before approving the three-year operating plan. He was referring to the proposal to introduce a technical-functional adjustment to the Port Masterplan to set stricter limits for Livorno’s largest terminal, where the community fears Grimaldi intends to develop ro-ro traffic, to the detriment of containers.
According to Livorno Port’s leading figure, the companies’ proposal would have meant strictly regulating only one part of the port, while allowing the principle of flexibility to continue to be applied to the rest of it, as long as it complied with the Masterplan. “It would have been an ad hoc modification, not governed by its general criteria,” he said.
TDT’s future will therefore be assessed by analyzing its business plan. This will enable the Port Network Authority to clarify these issues.
Translation by Giles Foster