Green light of the AdSP of Mare Adriatico Centrale to the Portuale Town development plan of Ortona



The Committee of management of the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Centrale has expressed to seem favorable to the Portuale Town development plan of Ortona, whose iter of approval it was firm from 2015 after the Harbour office had completed its preliminary investigation. The next steps preview Strategic the Environmental Appraisal by the Municipality of Ortona and the definitive approval of the document by the Abruzzi Region.

The AdSP of Mare Adriatico Centrale has specified that the new Portuale Town development plan of Ortona updates to the programming of infrastructures in an optical of long period market specializing the destination of the spaces in way to increase the operating efficiency, the competitiveness of the port of call and safety of the workers. Moreover the deliberation approved of from the Committee of management upgrades existing infrastructures and on hand increases the superficial ones so as to allow the increase of the traffic volumes that today suffer of the current limitations of the port of call. A particular attention comes mail from the PRP to the railway and street connections.

The Portuale Town development plan previews a surface of 44 thousand square metres for a specific terminal for the ferries, 151 thousand destined square metres to the industrial activities and beyond 280 thousand square metres for the commercial terminal. The new passenger terminal and cruises will have a dock of beyond 390 meters and a large square of 16.900 square metres. Al port fishings boat comes destined a surface of beyond 22 thousand square metres while the area for the nautical one from diporto will be of 62 thousand square metres. They are about 40 thousand the square metres on hand of the ship yards. The new one Slowly previews also a terminal than more 46 thousand chemicals square metres for and oil and an participation of dredging for a depth of the harbour basin between the -10 and the -13 meters.

Commenting the outcome of the voting of the Committee of management, the president of the AdSP, Rodolfo Giampieri, it has evidenced that "the proximity between the decisional source and the territory is fundamental in order to achieve these results in compatible times with the requirements of the operators who are on the market".

The Authority of Harbour System has announced moreover that , escavo for a total volume of 15 thousand cubic metres of material that is realized with the technical planning, the management of the work and the economic resources of 600 thousand euros of the agency. The work, begun on 7 August, is completed by the contracting out company, the Lmd, in the respect of the 65 days previewed from the contract.

The AdSP has specified that the reliefs battimetrici have evidenced a minimal depth of the ground comprised between the -4,1 and the -4,6 meters from the sea level regarding the -2/3 meters precedence. The dredging is executed on an area of 11.200 square metres from two pontoons, Rex II and Vega I. Of the total of sediments, 10 thousand cubic metres has been dipped to the wide one of the port of Ancona, five miles away from the marchigiano chief town and to 45 miles from San Benedetto del Tronto. A positioning authorized from the ministry of the Atmosphere for the immersions in sea of dredged sands, in a which monitored area in order to avoid impacts on the quality of waters, above all along the coast of the region. Other 5 thousand cubic metres are stoccati in the overwhelmed bathtub of Saint benedict that, once filled up and consolidated, that it could be transformed in a new harbour large square.

"With this job - Giampieri has explained - we have reached our objective, that it was that to guarantee the full operativity of the income of the port before the resumption of the activities of peach to Saint benedict of the Tronto-, an participation that has been possible to realize thanks to the complete collaboration of all the institutions, firstly of the Region Marche. The strategic guideline is to do so as that the dredging becomes an operation of ordinary maintenance and not an participation made in urgency".