Collapse of the traffic of the passengers in the three Sardinian ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres



The Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has found a decrement very one hundred thousand unit of the number of passengers enlivened from the ports of Olbia, Golfo Aranci and Porto Torres in the first quadrimestre of this year regarding the same period of 2010. According to the harbour agency such emphasized decrease is yields above all of the increase of the rates of the ferries, but also of the suspension of some marine services with the continent and of the minor number of weekend and the reduction of the festive bridges regarding last year and constitutes - it has emphasized - "the first true crisis of the last decade".

"Sul depositor of the traffic fleeting - the president of the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North has commented, Paolo Piro - the debut of 2011 is catastrophic. One hundred thousand passengers in less on the three ports, in hardly four monthly salary, is the obvious sign of a crisis that will have large repercussions on all the isolana economy".

Altogether in the first four months of the 2011 three ports of the northern Sardinia they have enlivened 519,779 passengers, with a decrease of 16.4% regarding 621.783 passengers in the first quadrimestre last year. The ships landed to the three ports of call have been 2,123, with a bending of 22.6% regarding 2.744 ships in the first four months of 2010.

The single port of Olbia is scaled by 1.383 ships (- 27.7%) for a traffic of 323.119 passengers (- 17.7%). To Golfo Aranci 271 ships (- 20,3) for a traffic of 76.618 passengers (- 24.7% are landed). The traffic to Porto Torres has been of 469 ships (- 4.7%) for a total of 120.042 passengers (- 5.7%). Between the routes not operated regarding last year - it has remembered the harbour agency - to Olbia figure the suspension of the line for Genoa, operated from Tirrenia and which restarted only on 19 April, and of that for Civitavecchia of the Snav, that it will resume only at the end of the May month; to Golfo Aranci the suspension of an afternoon race for Civitavecchia is recorded, while Porto Torres has discounted the reduction of the race of Large the Navi Veloci and the suspension, for the winter period, of the draft Torres-Barcelona Civitavecchia-Port of Grimaldi Lines.

"It is worrisome - it has evidenced Piro - the loss of 70 thousand unit in the single port of the Island White, of 25 thousand in that of Golfo Aranci and, fortunately, only seven thousand passengers on Porto Torres. Obvious sign that the dear one you ferry, combined to the decrease of the power of expense of many Italians and to the reduced week bridges, is determining a disaffection towards our Sardinia. The same suspension of lines as Genoa-Olbia from October 2010 to April 2011 and Civitavecchia-Olbia of the Snav, from the same period and for all the month of May (choices still dictated from the necessity of adaptation of the fleets to the Stockolm Agreement), have been revealed, as unfortunately provisional, determined on the decrease of the traffics for the north of the island".

To light of the statistical data found in the first part of the year the Harbour Authority has manifested worry for the summery season by now near, also in consideration of the little solutions possible apt to invert the trend. "We observe with attention, and hope of a possible upset of the situation - Piro has explained - the initiative of the Sardinian flagship company (the president refers to the recent presentation of the new lines of the Saremar with the continent, on May 20, 2011, ndr). The choice of the Region - it has continued Piro - is sure appreciable, but it is necessary that this has a continuation also beyond the summer months. He is equally indispensable that all the shipowners see again their position in confront of the user. The beloved fuel does not justify, totally, a so eclatante leap of the prices that, we know well, is effect from the necessity, also lawful, of ripianare the holes in budget provoked from the decrease of reservations in the low season, but this does not have to weigh on the pockets of the user. I hope that E region private can work in a distension climate, because places rigid, as those which they are being delineated, will not make other that to provoke, and the data demonstrate it, the been worried one disappeared of our island from the routes vacations for this year and, are worried, also for the next ones, in favor of resort as Croatia, the Sicily and Spain".