Aidablu in Olbia: the season of large numbers warms up the engines

With the arrival of Aidablu, the season of large numbers at the Isola Bianca port warms up the engines.

To inaugurate the landings in grand style, with its over 2,000 passengers, the Costa Cruises ship is at the debut of the twelve calls scheduled for 2023. Twenty thousand more passengers estimated by the AdSP (80,000 in all), 50 calls expected. Touching the docks are various premieres : modern queens of the seas - such as the exclusive Evrima from the Ritz-Carlton Collection fleet, a 290 million euro ship inaugurated last year - and, on the passenger and cargo handling front, the new super eco-friendly ferry “Moby Fantasy”.

One of the largest in the world, with a reception capacity of up to 2,300 passengers and 1,300 vehicles or 300 semi-trailers, the vessel was announced to be operational on the Livorno-Olbia route as early as the end of March but in reality it only appears "bookable" on the Moby website from from April 27; a one-month postponement which would not, however, call into question the entry into service of the ferry, designed to transport the "maximum of passengers in the summer and the maximum of goods in the winter".

Over 3 million travelers transited in 2022, record attendance on the island expected in 2023, it is already time to work together on the management of traffic volumes falling on the viability of the Gallura gateway.

"Although we have not yet received an official communication from the company on the entry into service of the ship - the Port System Authority of Sardinia informs us in a note - the AdSP offices are carrying on the normal and daily interlocutions with the Captaincy, the nautical technical services (pilots and mooring men) and the port companies so that adequate measures can be taken for the management of particular vehicular traffic peaks and port operations which, in any case, will proceed without particular upheavals. At the same time - he concludes - the Authority is continuing its maintenance activity on the docks, backdrops and asphalts for which interventions are underway along Viale Isola Bianca».