02_febbraio - Porto & diporto

infrastrutture / porto&diportoll futuro dei terminal liguriè già presenteMentre le cronache portualinazionali si concentranosui faraonici progetti terminalisticidell’alto Adriatico (progettoUnicredit per Monfalcone-Triestee piattaforma offshore a Venezia),dall’altra parte dello stivale, in altoTirreno, sono già in corso i lavori dipotenziamento di alcuni dei maggioriporti specializzati nel traffico container,nel tentativo di guadagnareterreno sugli scali nordeuropei, oggiindubbiamente in vantaggio nel riccomercato degli scambi fra Far East edEuropa centro occidentale.A Genova, primo porto containerdel paese (ad esclusione di quelli ditranshipment), in ripresa dopo l’annushorribilis 2009 (nel 2010 sono statimovimentati 1.760.000 TEUs contro1.533.627 TEUs dell’anno passato),l’intervento principale riguarda il riempimentodi Calata Bettolo, partedell’ampio piano di dragaggi e tombamentiavviato nel 2009.A fine gennaio un sopralluogoguidato dal presidente dell’AutoritàPortuale di Genova Luigi Merlo, dalpresidente della Regione LiguriaClaudio Burlando, dal vice sindacoPaolo Pissarello e dal comandantedella Capitaneria Felicio Angrisano,ha permesso di toccare con mano lostatus dei lavori, anche grazie alla visitaalla modernissima (è stata varatanel 2010) draga Shoalway, uno deinumerosi mezzi utilizzato da Boskalis,la multinazionale olandese che,in ATI (Associazione Temporanead’Impresa) con la siciliana Tecnis, staconducendo i lavori nel porto ligure.Il riempimento di Calata Bettolo,opera da 116 milioni di euro che faparte del piano regolatore portualevigente, consentirà di disporre, unavolta terminati i lavori, nel 2014, diuna nuova area contenitori da 500– 600.000 TEUs di capacità, che siaggiungerà ai terminal dedicati giàesistenti (VTE e Sech). La superficiesarà di circa 180.000 metri quadri,dotati di una banchina di circa 750metri che consentirà l’attracco contemporaneodi due mega portacon-The future of container terminals has already arrivedin the Northern Tirranean SeaWhereas the maritime press concentrates on enormousterminal projects in the Adriatic such as UnicreditMonfalcone and the Venice off-shore platform onthe other side of Italy a number of the major portsspecialised in container traffic are carrying out worksto expand capacity in order to catch up with NorthernEuropean ports which today have an advantage intraffic between the Far East and Central West Europe.Genoa, Italy’s number one container port excludingtranshipment is picking up after the 2009 annus horribiliswith teus increasing from 1,533,627 to 1,760,000.It is filling in the Bettolo quay as part of a wider planof dredging and wharf building begun in 2009. GenoaPort Authority president Luigi Merlo, Liguria Regionpresident Claudio Burlando, deputy mayor Paolo Pissarelloand harbour master Felicio Angrisano carriedout an inspection at the end of January helped by thepresence of dredger Shoalway used by Boskalis aDutch multinational working in partnership with Tecnisa Sicilan contractor for the works.The filling in of Bettolo quay a 116 million euro valuejob part of the current port plan, when completed in2014 will make additional space available for 600,000teus. The area of 180,000 square metres will have a750 metres long wharf capable of berthing two megacontainerships of 15,000 teu capacity each.The inspection also covered the other work inprogress in the port including preliminary work on anew cruise terminal at Ponte Parodi and at Ponte deiMille where a 350 metre wharf will be built to take thelargest cruise ships.Savona which has been relatively marginal for containertraffic, 200,000 teu in both 2009 and 2010, althoughconsidered excellent for multipurpose has speededup the design of a project to increase container traffic.With some delay work has started on the Maerskplatform at Vado Ligure with capacity for 900,000 teusand 900 metres of wharves which subject to agreementon construction finance will be given in concessionto APM Terminals. In fact the first cement blocktowed by Sean Christopher a tug owned by Oromarehas arrived in the bay of Vado and been settled in thesea signalling the start of work. The block measures32 metres by 22 metres by 19 metres and was madeby Grandi Lavori Fincosit.At the end of January the Supreme Council for PublicWorks completed the approval process for the projectand made a number of technical recommendationswhich have already been taken into consideration bythe Port Authority and APM. However there are changesin the financial structure. Initially the cost of 450million euro was to be provided by the Port Authorityfor 300 million euro and Maersk for 150 million euroand reimbursed using 25% of the VAT generated bythe operation of the terminal after approval by Government.There is now a change by Government whoare now prepared to finance directly. La Spezia withrecord numbers of teus 23% up to 1,285,000 at yearend obtained approval from Liguria Region for the newport plan which included joining up the two sectionsof La Spezia Container Terminal run by Contship. Onthe other hand Livorno has been waiting for years forthe new Europa dock to be built beside the existingcontainer terminal TDT Terminal Darsena Toscana. Inthe middle of January the city council approved theenvironmental report on the port plan which concludesthe environmental enquiry started up in 2009.The report will now go to all parties involved in environmentalmatters for their observations . Thereafterthe city council should adopt and approve the alterationto the Structural Plan by the end of this year.34 - febbraio 2011