The port of Porto Torres parts to charm from the sirens of the traffic of transhipment



Today the Harbour Committee of the Sardinia North has adopted unanimously the lines guides of the new Portuale Town development plan of Porto Torres, document that is approved of 30th May by the Town council and that now it will have to conclude its iter with the green light by the Sardinia Region.

The Harbour Authority has emphasized the importance of the adoption of the PRP that - it has found the agency - "after two years of analysis on the state to all purposes and effects of the marine transports of the western depositor north of the island, has put down in writing the prescription for throws again of a port of call from the great potentialities, but up to now penalized from a infrastructuring not completely adapted to the requirements of a market in constant evolution". "It is - it has evidenced the president of the harbour authority, Paolo Piro - a fundamental step in I throw again of the portualità of the Sardinia North. With this Town development plan, that it projects Porto Torres in the future, we go to correct not little criticalities that, for years, have held to brake the port of call. A truth that has enormous potentialities of increase that we want to pull outside in order to assault the market and to create new and important economies in the island. In the course of the international fair Transport Logistic di Shanghai, to which the agency has participated from the 5 on 7 June past, we have already recorded remarkable interest by large Chinese societies of logistics, that they have squeezed the eye to the idea of a terminal of transhipment in that position of the Mediterranean".

The document, in fact, includes the proposal of instituting a great pole of transhipment. In particular, the new Portuale Town development plan previews for the Industrial Port the removal from the inhabited center of the dangerous ships that transport goods (liquefied gas tankers, oil tankers and chimichiere), the location of possible areas of solid or liquid bulk warehouse, of storage of containers. Aspects, these last ones, that would be faced exactly with the container and a terminal realization of ro-ro that would be extended on an area of beyond 575.000 square metres, with 1.215 linear meters of docks between the Pier bulk sand banks and the Pier Europe Polymers. The terminal - it has specified the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North - could accommodate destined docks to container vessels (3-4 approaches for ships average-sized or approaches for two medium ships and one of great dimensions) and to the ships ro-ro (3-4 approaches, of which assigning also to the great ships Car Truck Carriers and to assign to the ferries for the transport of railway wagons). The dimension of the project - second the harbour agency - would have to allow an ability to handling of about 1,5 million container teu, compatible with the requirements of a great pole of transhipment SSS and with the requirement accommodating great ships Car - transoceaniche Truck Carrier, for which they would be available areas of storage with ability to 10.000 cars. "A project - it has evidenced the agency - that would transform the portotorrese port of call in port of transhipment and storage to mean and long term for solid bulk and containers; in hub for traffics ro-ro all cargo, of car, truck and cargos outside shape as the yachts. The lines guide of the PRP, would confirm, moreover, the affiancamento of a terminal for railway ferry of connection with the Liguria, whose definitive planning is approved of in the course of 2011".

Other objectives of the programming document regard the improvement of the current receptive ability to the classified part to the ferries ro-ro and ro-pax and the location of an endowed area of sufficient spaces to earth in which to locate the relative activities to the shipbuilding one to service of the nautical one from diporto.

Regarding the Civic Port, the forecasts of the lines guide regard the protection from the currents of the destined harbour watery mirror to the mooring of the ferries and the cruises and the realization of rectilinear routes of access with adapted arrest spaces; the separation of the traffic ships from that of the tourist boats and the ferries from the cruises, reserving a dock to the boats for the connection with the Asinara and a specific one for the fishings boat. Participations - it has observed the Harbour Authority - than will not be able to prescind from the realization of an adequate and modern marine station and of necessary buildings to the acceptance of a high number of passengers and a practicability that allows a fast connection port-city.

The Harbour Authority has not still defined with precision the entity of the investments necessary in order to put into effect the new one slowly: "with the green light of the Harbour Committee - Piro has explained - we can undertake the procedure of Strategic Environmental Appraisal that it will confer definitive the infrastructural order of the port. After we will only be able to know the real economic consistency of the plan". However the agency has specified that, once concluded the procedural phase with the last signature of the president of the Sardinia Region, the PRP would be articulated in various phases: a priority one, that it is represented by the realization of infrastructures to defense of the civic port, whose cost is calculated in about 60 million euros (30 million which already financed for how much previewed from the current programmatorio instrument) and the other will regard the development of the destined area to the shipbuilding one comprised between the civic port and that manufacturer, that it will have an estimable value around 100 million euros. In any case - it has specified Port Authority - in such field, the infrastructuring could be also at the expense of the private ones that of it they will make demanded for a reason or purpose concessorio, so as, at the expense of the private ones, could be also the eventual realization of the terminal ro-ro and container.

Piro has rimarcato the importance of the turnover that would come to generate itself with the institution of the merceologico pole: "on the base of the propedeutici studies to the Plan - it has observed - with the single terminal goods and the exploitation to full regime of the areas of the retroporto a annual turnover would come to generate itself of 150 million euros, with about job 500-600 places. To this they will go added the new economies generated from the diportismo and the shipbuilding one, fields that, in spite of the crisis, continue to resist".