Eurispes throws again the idea to realize mega a hub harbour in Southern Italy, planning of one to Palermo that would cost five billions



To Palermo, near the center of the presidency of the Sicilian Region to Palace of Orleans, the Eurispes has introduced an own project of technical feasibility and economic for the construction of a port hub to Palermo and for the requalification of the coast south oriental, whose realization - second the search institute - would mostly have a cost of about five billions of euros financed with private capitals and, operatively, it would appoint to a job 435 thousand people.

"The realization of the port hub - Giovan Battista Rubino has asserted, member of the scientific Committee Eurispes, that it has introduced the project - for its specification would make of Palermo the more important port of the south Europe, in a position to per year enlivening 16 million container, against the five of the port of Valencia, three the million that of Gioia Tauro and two the million about the ports of Barcelona and Genoa".

"The times of realization - it has specified Saverio Romano, in charge of the Southern Italy Department of the Eurispes - are three-year-old, from the release of the authorizations, tied to the insertion of the work in the plan of those national ones and strategic character. Obviously a strong collaboration between the institutions will be necessary, but the economic return that would be had some would affect positively not only on Palermo and the Sicily but all Southern Italy".

"The realization of this infrastructure - it has specified moreover the president of the Eurispes, Gian Maria Fara - is tied to double thread with the requalification of the Southeastern coast of Palermo, from years in state of abandonment. The project, that it would allow the fruizione and the bathing of wide features of coast, would give back moreover to that part of city the sight of the sea".

The project previews the realization of a represented harbour area from a platform connected with the coast to the height of the port of the Preserve and that it would form with it long a wide bay about 300 meters and three kilometers, destined to the aquatic sports and with 200 places for the pleasure crafts in transit. Along the bay it is previewed to realize a great beach, partially free and partially equipped and, upstream of it, sport systems in the open air for ten hectares, a city park on the sea and wide spaces for free time with points refreshment and stores. In the space comprised between this area and 113 civil servant the project previews a panoramic road that it leave with a new bridge on the Oreto in order to reach until the Preserve. To valley of the road a bicycle track and one for running long the three kilometers that, through a ciclopedonale bridge, arrive to the tourist port.

The part more purely harbour of the project previews the construction of a port of call, with nine kilometers of docks with depth of the backdrop from -18,5 to -27 meters and large square of about 200 hectares, constituted from a port-channel with income to the north-west and south-east escape and directly connected to a retroporto of 100 hectares.