The AdSP of the Western Sicily illustrates to Trapani the development plans of the port of the city



Today to Trapani an encounter with institutions has held, harbour operators and concessionaires and labor organizations in order to discuss about the strategic development of the harbour area of the city to which they have participated mayor Giacomo Tranchida, the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Western Sicily, Pasqualino Monti, and the regional city council member to the productive Activity, Mimmo Turano.

In its participation the president of the AdSP of the Western Sicily, agency to which the reform of the norms in harbour matter of 2006 he has assigned the task to administer the ports of Palermo, Termini Imerese, Trapani and Porto Empedocle, has explained that "all the put actions in existence are aimed at the development of the harbour traffic, but - it has specified Pasqualino Monti - in order to favour such attempt is fundamental reorders of the several harbour functions avoiding every form of interference. This means also to open to the city which precluded zones of the port, giving visibility to the sea, element that deeply Trapani connotes. The reference, in particular - it has specified - is to the docks the northeast of the port, that they follow the former dock Submersible, today occupied from high wall of fence and yards. The sea and the port must find new developments, to provoke consents without being more niche than disarranged economies. We will introduce unexpressed potentialities of this territory, working to a credible project in a position to making to arrive the necessary resources. The port is an opportunity to the development of the city economy, a natural access to a rich outback of attraction elements".

Monti has specified that, as well as to I reorder of the harbour functions and to the maintenance, he is worked to the adjustment of the Garibaldi dock, to the dredging of the channel of income of the port and the harbour basin, to the restyling of the existing marine station on the pier Health, that he accommodates the center of the decentralized administrative office of the AdSP of the Sea of Western Sicily. Here - it has clarified - the participations in course preview an energetic requalification, accommodation of the external areas, that to green of short internal and the 1,350 square metres of covered surface. Already in existence also the activities of planning for the completion of the Submersible dock and for the realization of the energetic efficientamento of the harbour system of lighting system.

Monti has emphasized that but the main engagement for a deep requalification of the port of call has been quickly that to improve the acceptance of the passengers leaving for the smaller islands, the Egadi and Pantelleria, protected from every climatic situation: they are begun, in fact, the work of Trapani Fast Ferry Terminal on the dock Customs, a project of the value of 1,2 million euros. Trapani Fast Ferry Terminal will have a linear length of 80 meters, a covered surface of 680 square metres, external areas of 470 square metres, which air-conditioned waiting room, internal and external bars, toilets, sitting, eight emplacements of ticket office.