Today at the Canal Port of Cagliari was inaugurated the new shipbuilding district of Southern Sardinia whose realization was entrusted in the autumn of 2020 to the temporary grouping of companies R.C.M. Costruzioni S.r.l. - Consorzio Integra Soc. Coop. and was funded from the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Sardinia for a total amount of approximately 34 million euros. Maritime works, To complete the urbanization of the spaces on the ground, they have concerned the advancement of the current coastline by little over 70 meters and the construction of a quay of Riva di 590 meters long; the excavation of a channel inside the outpost, to allow all lots a direct view of the sea; the dredging of the outpost front up to -7 meters deep; the construction of piers to protect the water mirror in front of the docks; the opening of a gap in the dam Foranea di Levante of about 80 meters to allow access dedicated to boats destined for the district of shipbuilding, thus avoiding mixing with traffic Naval arriving and departing from the bulk terminal.

The part on the ground, extended over about 23 hectares, will be able to host industrial, craft and commercial settlements of the shipbuilding sector, with particular reference to the refitting of Yachts also large. This - it has highlighted the AdSP - and will fill much of the potential still unexpressed of the south island, thus nominating Sardinia to become - thanks to the already consolidated role in the field of Olbia hub - leading hub in the Mediterranean.

The harbour authority recalled that the district of Shipbuilding completes a first part of the large infrastructure of the Canal Port being the first card of the complex mosaic that will continue with the realization of the new bulk terminal (operating from about 20 million euros), whose Delivery is expected in 2024, and will end in 2029 with the construction of the new commercial port, whose works, for an amount of approximately EUR 338 million (of which EUR 99 million was financed by complementary funds to the NRP), were awarded at the beginning of the month ( of 3 July 2023).

On the occasion of today's inauguration, which was attended by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, the President of the Region of Sardinia, Christian Solinas, the mayor of Cagliari, Paolo Truzzu, and other authorities, the president dell'AdSP, Massimo Deiana, has emphasized that "that today It is a historic moment for the island sector of the Yachting shipbuilding. We provide of the operators in the sector - he explained - a district of 23 hectares, with adequate and modern maritime works, widely functional to the construction and maintenance needs of boats ranging from small tonnage to large yachts. Together with the already consolidated pole of Olbia which, since recently studies, intercepts more than half of the needs of the basin Mediterranean, we are going to strengthen the offer, sure to attract the remaining demand and generating new opportunities for the economy Island. As already foreseen in the Programming Document Strategic System in the adoption phase, to pleasure boating and to shipbuilding, this System Authority has reserved spaces and facilities in all ports, so that our island, which still has enormous margins of development compared to the national average berths, can meet all the needs of the market and become the heart of central Europe in the sector».