Financed the project of widening of the terminal you ferry and cruises of the port of Bari



Graces to a financing of 8,25 million euros, that it is obtained with the approval of project CSP Cross-border Sustainable Ports in the within of the Program of Territorial Cooperation Greece-Italy 2007-2013, within this year the Harbour Authority of the East will be able to start the work of widening of the terminal ferries and cruises of the port of Bari.

The apulian harbour agency has explained that the current terminal, realized in 2006 always with communitarian financings, by now is wide sottodimensionato regarding the increased flow of passengers that journeys to you in order to complete the activities of relative boarding and disembarkation to the transboundary traffic with Greece and to that crocieristico. The constant increase during the last few years of the number of landings place of the great companies of navigation in the crocieristico field and the pressing demands to support their future programs of development has pushed the Harbour Authority to equip itself of an executive project, already supplied of the necessary authorizations, that shortly it will allow to start the contract contest.

To completed work it will be passed from current the 3,700 square metres about of useful surface, had on the three plans, to about 8.000 square metres on the base of a project elaborated from the engineers of the Technical Service of the Harbour Authority that, in guaranteeing the architectonic and functional continuity with the existing building, is worried to study with particular cures mobility of the passengers between the various levels and the building and the docks where the ships are moored. In fact they will be realized also of the communication trenches in quota, supplied of carpets you furnish, that they will allow with the passengers to reach in comfort and safety also the farther docks of the Dock of West without to interfere with the traffic of the means that will continue to carry out itself on the docks and in the below large squares. The structure will be realized second the most modern techniques for the control of the energetic consumption and previewing also the installation of systems of generation of energy of photovoltaic type.

The president of the Harbour Authority has emphasized as the widening constitutes "an participation of infrastructural potenziamento a lot important that it will increase to the quality of the services offered to the passengers confirming the vocation of the port of Bari, strengthened from its grip vicinity to the areas of the city center, as I unwind main of the crocieristico traffic of the southern Adriatic. A first most important step - it has specified Franco Mariani - in a program that previews the construction of a new pier of the length of 350 meters that will allow to accommodate the cruise ships of last generation and to increase the number of the contemporary moorings".

Satisfaction for the next performance of the project is expressed also by the city council member to the Mediterranean of the Region Apulia: "they are - it has emphasized Silvia Godelli - much satisfying for this result that allows to support the development of the port of Bari and to support the tourist increase of the Apulia. To improve the quality of the services in the Italian and Greek ports, facilitating the connections, is one of the objectives of the cooperation program and this participation will give a great contribution to the total strategy of increase of the territories".