Confindustria designs new spaces for yachts and superyachts in the port of Genoa.
The position paper just presented calls for exploiting the displacement of the new breakwater to the sea with an expansion aimed at obtaining new spaces for the shipbuilding industry and new berths.
Having adopted the Strategic Planning Document (DPSS) almost a year ago, the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority (Genoa) is now about to begin drafting the new Port Master Plan. The local branch of Confindustria (Italian Industrialists' Confederation) has produced a document outlining its recommendations for this project.
Following months of work, the fruit of meetings with "all the different sides of the association," the paper presented today by President Umberto Risso and Vice President Beniamino Maltese, delegate for the maritime economy, is a text containing a long series of ideas, drafted with the aim of suggesting a development path "that will raise the ranking of the port of Genoa," ensuring "the added value of multifunctionality and competitiveness.
It all starts with the pillar of the new breakwater, "which will make the port accessible to the latest generation of ships. After that," Maltese clarified, "it will be necessary to improve road, rail, and airport accessibility." This also includes consideration of the Fit for 55, "a regulatory package that will, within a few years, become a key factor in the port's competitiveness."
The ecumenism necessary to summarise the position of subjects who often have conflicting interests with each other (the members of Confindustria) is, moreover, the key feature of the entire document, which generally focuses on suggestions and suggestions outlined in an embryonic way, without venturing financial forecasts, investment architectures, employment or other returns, timescales, and without going into particular details of the various proposed solutions (Here is the document for those who want to learn more).
Among the six macro-zones into which the document divides the port, however, there are two particularly significant interventions called for by Confindustria, at either end of the port front.
More specifically, to the far east, for the nautical and ship repair area, Confindustria suggests exploiting the space created by moving the new breakwater out to sea (theoretically intended to divide the traffic routes between the old port and the Sampierdarena basin, while maintaining a section of the existing breakwater). This expansion would create new space for the shipbuilding industry (which would also benefit from an expansion of basin no. 4) and new berths for yachts and maxi-yachts. According to the renderings made public, the waterfront area would be adjacent (seaside) to the Amico & Co. shipyard.
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