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Major Italian ports are in crisis for a lack of space, and the port of Savona (Liguria) in particular. In the roadstead the ships stay anchored for many days while waiting to be able to work in the tiny, overcrowded port. The port of Savona is a dead end: outdated equipment, old piers, shallow waters … For years there has been an exhausting clash between the vital forces of work and the old port with its heart in its mouth. The dockers say: "If the port dies, so does the city".