Majestic, ugly and even useless. The cruise terminal, the Lunardi tensile structure that stands in front of the commercial port of Porto Torres , is one of the oldest unfinished works whose functionality still remains to be clarified. Mayor Massimo Mulas has urged the interregional Superintendency for Public Works for Lazio, Abruzzo and Sardinia to complete the building's completion work.
«They replied that there are no resources to complete the work nor the funds to demolish it - said the mayor - dismantling it is not possible or even moving it, because it is almost complete with functioning systems, machinery and internal structures. Today, moving would be unthinkable and uneconomical. The only thing to do would be to take back the millionaire investment used to build the work, but this is not possible."
It is the mayor's response to the report of the Sardinian group leader, Bastianino Spanu, who proposed dismantling and transferring the enormous structure to the industrial port , 93 percent of which was built by the Lakit company which in 2010 was awarded the works assigned by the Superintendency of Works Public, without ever completing them. The same company had been subjected to bankruptcy proceedings after a series of legal events. The unfinished building had been financed with funds amounting to 3 million and 281 thousand euros from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, through the interregional authority. A "bulky" building that does not fit well into the context of the port area, between the Dogana Segni quay of the commercial port and the "Nino Pala" maritime station, the area in which the intermodal hub was built.
«Once the supervisory authority finishes the work, being located within the perimeter of the port area, it should fall under the competence of the Port Authority - explained Mulas - but it has already anticipated that nothing will be done with it, because it is outside the sterile areas . A complicated situation that creates difficulties for us. It is certain that the seafront positioning of that structure is truly beyond all logic."
