"We ask Mayor Massimo Mulas to assert himself at the Port System Authority, so that Porto Torres obtains the role it deserves in the regional tourism panorama. Rather than passively suffer the decline, the administration must commit to enhancing our port and our city, finally making them worthy of their history and their potential ."
Pierluigi Molino, city secretary of Forza Italia, declared this in reference to the cruise ship schedule reduced to only three landings in Porto Torres out of 286 total throughout the island in the 2025 season.
A responsibility that the secretary attributes to the Port Authority and local institutions. "On the infrastructure level, our tourist port welcomes passenger ships with drafts greater than 7 meters, while the commercial one, beyond the Mannu, has depths of over 10 meters," Molino emphasizes.
«The downgrading of our port is therefore not attributable to structural limitations, but rather to specific political choices, which the current municipal administration does not seem able to counteract, both due to its own limitations and party constraints».
The city, moreover, boasts a historical, cultural and environmental heritage of the highest level: it hosts the largest archaeological park on the island, a national park and a protected marine area, as well as territorial uniqueness such as the thousand-year-old ziggurat of Monte d'Accoddi, located less than five kilometers from the docks of the port. "We can understand the embarrassment of the mayor in receiving guests in a city that has lost all urban decorum: streets reduced to landfills, buildings blackened by animal excrement, sidewalks invaded by weeds. A degradation that worsens day by day, before everyone's eyes."
The list of critical issues that would make the city airport unattractive also includes "a disastrous road system, with roads that look like mule tracks, potholes that make normal travel impossible and arteries closed for years due to interminable works - concludes Molino -, which no one seems capable of completing. A situation that not only penalizes residents, but seriously compromises any possibility of tourist and economic development of the city".
