"The Region is engaged in the work of infrastructural modernization of Sardinia, with particular attention to those infrastructures considered strategic for the future development of Sardinia, the ports". These are the words of the councilor for Public Works, Aldo Salaris, who this morning visited the port of La Maddalena during an inspection aimed at verifying the state of the works and accepting the requests received from the Municipal Administration regarding some works considered necessary and urgent.
The Municipality, on the basis of the reports of the Port Authority, has in fact highlighted the need for a new, further, extraordinary maintenance intervention in one of the docks, "Banchina Poste", for a financial requirement quantified in 2 million euros.
Another need for extraordinary maintenance and restoration of existing infrastructures concerns the area of Cala Gavetta, for which the Municipality has reported some disasters that risk worsening if no action is taken quickly: in the latter case the Municipality has quantified the financial requirement in 1,400,000 euros.
The Municipality of La Maddalena has already been the recipient of a total loan of 17 million for the seafront. Part of these resources have already been spent for the implementation of redevelopment interventions such as Cala Balbiano and for the arrangement and safety of the Post Office. Just today the urgent work to make the Zonza quay safe was delivered, the intervention of which is of fundamental importance for maintaining the connection with the main island, since it guarantees continuity.
Looking at the port infrastructures as a whole, the Region is committed to the preparation of the Regional Plan of the tourist port network which aims to complete the Sardinian tourist port network, thus transforming the Island into a privileged destination for pleasure boating, by virtue of its strategic position in the center of the Western Mediterranean basin, the environmental value of the coast and the hinterland, the quality of the port facilities and services offered.
Among the ports of the north eastern coast included in the network of tourist ports is also that of La Maddalena, whose municipal administration has recently obtained from the Department of Local Authorities the delegation for the drafting of the Port Regulatory Plan and has already entrusted the related services. engineering.
