Summit to Messina with the objective to restore the landings place of the ships to the port of call of Tremestieri


the mayor of Messina, Renato Accorinti, has convened the president of the Harbour Authority of the Sicilian city, Antonino De Simone, and the commander of the Harbour office, Antonino Samiani, in order to ask clarifications on the lacked opening the port of Tremestieri, the port of call for the landing place of bidirectional ferries that is realized in 2006 in order to avoid the transit of heavy means in the messinese urban fabric.

a month makes the Harbour office had ordered the not subsistent closing of the new port as the conditions in order to guarantee the access in safety to the ships. In order to restore a safety situation, on half March intense activities of dredging of sediments near the port are started, but the participation - second ascertained how much from the Harbour-office - has not had positive outcome.

"the paradoxical event - it has denounced the communal administration of Messina - has revealed the limits of the procedure adopted from the Harbour Authority that, although the completion of the contracted out intense activities, has not succeeded to reopen the port of Tremestieri".

Yesterday the mayor has restated to the representatives of the Harbour Authority and the Harbour-office the importance that the full functionality of the port of Tremestieri covers for safety and the vivibilità of the messinesi citizens. Accorinti has moreover manifested appreciation for the decision of the Harbour Authority to entrust to society OHI the study that would have to allow to find which supported solutions scientifically. At the same time it has invited to change the strategy on the dredging operations. In particular, the communal administration has proposed to abandon the classic arranges of the dredge making to install instead a system of dredging fixed aspirant. According to the Municipality, such system would guarantee continuous an ordinary maintenance of the backdrops having maintained a bathymetric constant near the -7 meters. For the communal administration, moreover, this system would avoid the long times of attended of the authorizations, since the sand inhaled from the sea could be accumulateed in a warehouse in presses of the pier and successively to subject it to the analyses for the regional authorization.