The immediate establishment of a special commission was requested
According to Christian Solinas, national secretary of the Sardinian Action Party and former president of the Sardinia Region in the period 2019-2024, the immediate establishment of a Special Commission on Sardinian Ports was requested. “The ports,” he emphasized, “are the femoral artery of Sardinia. Without the ports, the island would be condemned to marginality, to disconnection from the large transport and logistics networks that characterize modernity, and ultimately to the elimination of any development perspective. But while other national maritime ports are at the center of political and strategic debate, including internationally—if only from the perspective of appointing new presidents who will govern the fundamental choices for their growth in the next four-year period—Solinas denounced that ‘a pall of silence has fallen over the Sardinian ports, attributable to a single Port System Authority, broken only by recent and persistent rumors of alleged scandals.'”
While Massimo Deiana, lawyer, full professor of Law, and former Regional Councillor for Transport, has reached the end of his second four-year term as President of the Port System Authority of the Sea of Sardinia, which began on July 18, 2021, Solinas calls for the commissioning of the Sardinian port authority and the selection, as soon as possible, of a president with indisputable professional qualifications, capable of initiating a process to rewrite the operational and infrastructural planning of Sardinian ports.
For Solinas, “too many mistakes have been made: Porto Torres exists in a ghostly state of abandonment, with appalling degradation of facilities and port infrastructure. The Canal Port of Cagliari has been downgraded in terms of its function and the purposes for which it was created, despite enormous public resources being spent, hindering its aspiration to become—along with the free zone—the logistical hub for major traffic between Suez and Gibraltar. The historic port,” continued the national secretary of the Sardinian Action Party, “has been the subject of a more ‘aesthetic’ policy than a strategic one. Of course, it is pleasant to see pleasure boating present on the quay and a partially revitalized seafront promenade, but the vital function of the Port System Authority is not to build padel courts, restaurants, and kiosks to be outsourced, but to develop the port in terms of trade, logistics, and naval operations capable of generating wealth and value for the entire territory.”
“The market,” Solinas concluded, “requires the implementation of other strategic projects and targeted interventions in various sectors, including ferries, boating, raw materials, and container traffic. Additionally, under the current government, Sardinia has also fallen off the radar regarding the establishment of a special logistics zone, which will benefit much of the South—except for our island.
