As in a puzzle to be put together within a set time frame, the government (even in the middle of summer) is putting together the pieces of the economic recovery. On the infrastructures to be modernized in a sustainable way to do grow up la international competitiveness the Ministry led by Enrico Giovannini intervened. With a expenditure decree of 112,2 million euros interventions that have been identified for some time but have not been financed up to now become operational in favor of ports. A structural strengthening operation to increase the capacity and resilience of historic airports to climate change.
Naples, Trieste, Barletta are the beneficiaries of a provision which aims to complete the works by 2026. They are central sea basins in the business system, such as for tourism, and must adapt ancient pre-existing structures both to environmental regulations and to the requests of shipowners. The post-pandemic restart can therefore only be set according to criteria of efficiency and environmental protection. In the recent "Week of the ports" organized by Assoporti, it is not by chance that the point was taken on the environmental energy plans of the port authorities. At the port of Bari (to name one) a photovoltaic system of 170 thousand kilowatt hours per year has been installed with great savings of CO2 in the air. Example to follow.
The money from the new decree is applied to the Investment Fund of the same Ministry of Infrastructure and Mobility. They will be spent to strengthen docks and facilities, increase the reception of all types of ships, but above all for resilience to climate change. They are added to resources for all the Italian ports foreseen in the Pnrr. And for this purpose - recalls Giovannini - they have already been approved and assigned 2,8 billion euros of the Complementary Fund. "The strengthening of the ports, the expansion of their operations and greater resilience to climate change are priorities in view of the sustainable development of the country which see us strongly committed," he added. Alongside him in the division between North and South are the Port Authorities who in the coming years will have to guarantee careful governance, both for logistics and for environmental impacts. The large shipping companies have embarked on the path of decreasing impact freight or passenger transport. Just a few weeks ago, the MSC Group, Fincantieri and Snam signed an agreement for the world's first hydrogen-powered cruise ship. MSC, Fincantieri and Snam for the first hydrogen cruise shipOther private projects are underway to replace fossil fuels with non-polluting ones. In other words, proof of a transversal and coordinated public-private effort to contain competition from other historic European airports.
The three strategic areas identified by the decree are in line with initiatives that can be implemented both in the Adriatic and in the Tyrrhenian Sea accommodate the demand of shipowners looking for economies of scale. A balance that the government has been able to observe by thus assigning the funds: 59,9 million to the Southern Adriatic Sea Authority for interventions in the port of Barletta (19,9 million) and on the road linking the A14 motorway and the port of Bari ; 32,2 million to the Eastern Adriatic Authority for interventions in the port of Trieste; 20,1 million to that of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea for the redevelopment of the monumental area of the port of Naples.
