Nautic Event: «Let's relaunch tourist ports, multipliers of the economy»

Relaunch nautical and shipbuilding in northern Sardinia from a system and collaboration perspective that brings tourist ports into synergy.

The city of Porto Torres also intends to join this route, chosen to host the Nautic Event Sardinia 2024 , the three-day event promoted by Assonautica Nord Sardegna - from Friday 14th to Sunday 16th - and chaired by Giovanni Conoci, through the creation of a exhibition and narrative path of the integrated offer through the creation of stations that promote the territory .

At the center of the second day of the Nautic Event are the strategies for the relaunch of tourist ports and the evolution of the hospitality of marinas as accommodation facilities. The talk, moderated by Fabio Calvicchi, compared the ports of San Teodoro, Alghero, Stintino and Porto Torres. The obstacle is often bureaucracy.

The tourist reality of Gallura is preparing to inaugurate the first of the two lots of a project for the creation of a second tourist port with a total value of approximately 36 million euros for a total of 400 berths. Work began in 1998.

«The first batch for 150 places, financed by the Region with funds amounting to 12 million euros, will be tested this year», explains the mayor of San Teodoro, Rita Deretta , «for the second batch, delegated to the Municipality, we will rely on a public-private partnership to recover at least another 20 million in addition to the 16 already available".

The tourist port of Porto Torres already offers 300 places for pleasure boating, another 100 for social boating. But the challenge is to focus on the Teleferica quay for additional spaces intended for maxi yachts.

« At Asinara there are 63 buoys available for pleasure, a floating dock and places for 15 boats up to 14 meters», explains Antonello Gadau, director of Cormorano Marina.

"We've been waiting for the western antemurale for 15 years and it hasn't started yet", adds the mayor of Porto Torres, Massimo Mulas, "a work that would allow us to make some considerations for the territory". But to develop the nautical sector " we need to standardize the opportunities of the services we have, in such a way as to be recognizable throughout the Sardinian platform ".

In Stintino the marina port with 320 berths has started a 3.6 million expansion plan. «A still small port that needs at least 700 berths to be fully operational», said the mayor Rita Vallebella «the available financing is crumbs compared to the objectives, we would like to launch a project financing because with private capital it is easier to operate, so as to start a first batch which should be completed within the year."

Alghero is among the most important tourist ports in Sardinia with 2 thousand permanent berths and 200 in transit . Boats up to 60 meters dock here. «There is currently the possibility of expanding the historic port with a further 350 berths – said Giancarlo Piras, president of the Consortium of the port of Alghero – with moorings of up to 120 metres. There is an anomaly established by an ordinance of the Harbor Master's Office which provides for free docking for yachts up to 50 meters for the first 5 days".

The numbers say that pleasure boating represents one of the most dynamic and strategic sectors of the Italian economy and of Sardinia, the leading region for berths. The Italian nautical industry exports 90% of its turnover. «Thanks to the nautical tourism and shipbuilding supply chain, for every euro invested in a shipyard, another 7.5 euros of added value are created», explains Stefano Pagani of Confindustria Nautica, «as well as a new shipbuilding employee in Italy generates another 9 in the entire supply chain and this thanks to the nautical tourism component, a high multiplier, the highest of the sea economies in Italy, which is why tourism must focus on a 360-degree welcome". On the third day of the Nautic Event, with its testimonial the sailor Andrea Mura , focus on the blue economy and innovation at the service of parks and fishing. The various stands and stations with the 12 municipalities of the Coros were present to promote the territory.