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Policies and Strategies for Ocean and Marine Governance: North-South participation for Economic and Social development of Coastal Regions
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Multi-criteria and multi-group assessment for the conflict resolution between maritime economic growth and coastal protection in Sicily (Italy)
P-E2-03
Pasquale De Toro* , University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Maria Cerreta* , University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
Presenter Email: detoro@unina.it |
| In recent years in some ports of the Mediterranean Sea there was registered a strong growth in freight traffic. The transhipment market in the Central Mediterranean Sea is particularly significant and is managed by some Italian ports and Marsaxlokk (Malta); this is located at the center of the routes coming from the Suez Canal in Egypt and the Western Mediterranean Sea, where transhipment operations are mainly operated in the ports of Valencia and Algeciras (Spain) and Tangiers (Morocco). The strongest growth for this market has been in the ports of:
- Valencia (Spain), where it has increased from 207,100 TEUs in 2000 to 2,508,000 TEUs in 2015;
- Algeciras (Spain), where it has passed from 1,890,700 TEUs in 2000 to 4,144,000 TEUs in 2015;
- Tangiers (Morocco), where it has passed from no traffic in 2000 to 2,849,300 TEU of 2015;
- Malta, from 966,400 TEUs in 2000 to 2,943,800 TEUs in 2015.
Demand has been stimulated by a very rapid growth in local goods traffic (import/export flows), and the shift to larger ship sizes has been an important catalyst also for the development access terminals (which combine import/export and transhipment). The recent orders of ships from the twenty major shipping companies suggest a further average increase in vessel size in the short term, with possible repercussions on the reorganization of ports and the port-city interface.
In order to compete with Malta, an expansion of the port of Gela (in Sicily) has been proposed, with the strengthening of the existing commercial port, which could be transformed into a container terminal through the construction of an artificial island with transhipment function. However, urban and environmental issues have led to the need to carry out financial, multi-criteria and multi-group assessments to address the conflict between economic development and environmental protection.
In particular, three different intervention scenarios were developed, i.e. short, medium and long-term. The assessment of the impacts and the obtained results have highlighted the primary importance of the defence of the coast and the sea, opting for a possible extension of the current tourist port with a redevelopment of the relationship with the city, without the need for the construction of an artificial island.
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