It is consistent with the strategic choices of the PRP, the Rina Plan commissioned by the Port System Authority to evaluate the conversion of the areas on the Darsene Calafati and Pisa to shipbuilding activities for maxi yachts.
This was stated by the TAR Toscana, which completely rejected the appeal presented by the Cantiere Navale Lorenzoni against the AdSP’s project to create a hub for the construction of large pleasure craft in those areas.
The administrative judges legally challenged all the accusations made by the appellant, according to which the administration, in adopting the industrial plan drawn up by the company RINA, would have illegitimately replaced the provision indicated in the PRP for shipbuilding (i.e., the activity that the appellant claims to carry out on the areas that have been granted to it under concession) with the shipbuilding activity dedicated to high-end pleasure boating.
The TAR points out that the RINA industrial plan provides for the permanence of shipbuilding activities falling under the IA-1 function in the Darsena Calafati area, which includes shipbuilding activities on ships and luxury yachts with a length between 30 and 80 meters, and does not at all provide for the location of minor shipbuilding activities attributable to the IA-2 function (which is admittedly not permitted within the Calafati dock), it being understood that a “ship” means a vessel of any nature (military, commercial, and also pleasure craft, i.e., “mega-yachts”) with a length exceeding 24 meters.
“Therefore, it is clear that the RINA study did not pose, for its implementation, any need to modify, for the area in question, the IA-1 designation, which in the PRP is referred to indistinctly for the activities of repair, maintenance, transformation, construction and naval outfitting,” write the judges in the ruling, underlining in particular how the objective of converting the areas of the Darsena Calafati to the high-end pleasure boating sector set out in the Rina Plan thus appears abstractly compatible with the strategic choices of the PRP, “falling then within the scope of the administration’s broad discretion the possibility of remodulating the particular type of activities that can be carried out in these areas within the permitted function IA-1, of ‘repair, maintenance, transformation, construction and naval outfitting’.”
Also rejected by the TAR was the supplementary appeal presented by the Lorenzoni shipyard against the Functional Technical Adjustment of the areas, approved by the Management Committee in November 2024 and with which the AdSP intended to extend the function of shipbuilding nautical for an area of approximately 18,000 square meters in areas adjacent to those identified in the PRP, which are in fact already used for this function.”
According to the judges, the changes approved with the ATF for the Shipyard Area – Darsena Pisa and Darsena Calafati, do not introduce significant variations to the strategic choices of the Plan, as a different and unforeseen designation is not introduced, and then because it only provides for a re-perimeterization of the IA-1 function already present in the area in question.
