Started the procedure of contest for the realization of the dock container of the port of Augusta



Yesterday to Augusta, with the takeover of the appropriate one to commission, it is given the go-ahead to the procedure of contest for the allocation of the work of first and according to extract of the third phase of the commercial port of Augusta that previews the realization of a landing place for the portacontainer.

The Harbour Authority of Augusta has remembered that they still remain opened the terms for the relative contest to the "Adaptation of a feature of dock of the commercial port" (amount of the contract 34,5 million euros), that they will expire the second week of May, and that the total amount of the contests, for 118 million euros, comprises also the investments legacies to the old Dock and the S. Andrea Wharf whose procedures of contest are completed.

The president of the Harbour Authority of Augusta, Aldo Garozzo, has emphasized that such works, that various expirations within 2014 will be concluded second, "are not from dream book", as often is asserted, but that instead they will afford to the port of Augusta to by right join in the number of the ports of the Mediterranean of medium largeness putting on areas equipped for ferries ro-ro, goods helter-skelter and for handling of container with docks that will have backdrops until 16-17 meters in a position to satisfying the 70%-75% of the current requirements of the portacontainer that they operate in the Mediterranean.

The Sicilian harbour agency has remembered that, with these investments, the realization of the works is completed forehead sea tied to the infrastructuring of the current commercial port, in consideration of the fact that an ulterior expansion is blocked by having pre-existed naturalistic and archaeological constraints (Whirling arm and Hangar), and that it remains to complete the expansion of the large squares to earth whose beginning works is previewed in 2012.

The Harbour Authority has specified of having under consideration new solutions in order to continue to develop the port and to realize infrastructural works in a position to for example taking advantage of to the maximum the characteristics of the oadstead (backdrops beyond the 20 meters) in a position to satisfying the future requirements of the great container vessels in synergy with the requalification of the territory, the immense productive areas dismesse and the activities of reclamation of the oadstead. The agency has announced that, to such purpose the Harbour Committee in the sitting of last Tuesday, examined the proposal of the president about the lines of address of writing up the Portuale Town development plan, has expressed to seem favorable to localization of a watery mirror to use for the realization of a case of overwhelmed to put on of the ministry of the Atmosphere, in proximity of the outer dam side internal south oadstead. Such participation - it has explained the Harbour Authority - is suitable to realize the first lottery of the activities of reclamation of the oadstead for a million cubic metres of sediments and contextually affords the construction in functional extract of the first lottery of the new dock previewed in the lines of address of the new PRP.

"A new chapter for the port of Augusta is opened so - it has concluded Garozzo - that sure will afford to realize a new valid and competitive infrastructure for a long period, whose project is riscuotendo many consents between operators and foreign banks. Moreover old aspects considered critical for the port are exceeded, not always to reason, relatively to the reclamation of the oadstead and the dredgings of the backdrops".