| Port of Pescara | |
|---|---|
| Harbour | |
| Location | |
| Country | Italy |
| Location | Pescara |
| Details | |
| Owned by | Chamber of commerce of Pescara |
| Type of harbor | Natural/Artificial |
| Statistics | |
| Annual cargo tonnage | 358.66 tonnes (2006) |
| Passenger traffic | 48.033 (2006) |
| Website | http://www.marinape.com/ |
The port of Pescara is an Italian port on the Adriatic Sea at the mouth of the River Pescara in the city of Pescara. It is located at latitude 28.14 north and longitude 42 ° 14 ° 13 ', 78 East
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He was born in the early twentieth century, designed by engineer Thomas Mati end 800, revised in 1908 by Ing. Cat (but already in Roman times was an important port on the strategic position of the city of Pescara). The port of Pescara was conceived mainly as a staging area for use by numerous local fishing fleet, which had laid the foundations in the river in the second half of the 800. This project was created at the request of the navy to remedy the low water depths at the mouth of the river and the need to create an entry into deeper water and therefore safer. Thus was born the port-channel, with two moles guardians and 500 meters north-east, on stilts. Initially the airport in Pescara is equipped for small and medium tonnage ships, in addition to providing support to the fishing activities that were already active in the central Adriatic. The port immediately showed signs of development beginning the economic growth of the city. During the First World War, the airport recorded a setback due to the almost total lack of commercial traffic caused by the presence of the Austrian Navy in the Adriatic. In the period between the two world wars, the port of Pescara got high points of development, in line with the phenomenal growth of the city, making it the busiest port of Ancona and Bari. During the Second World War in the spring of 1944, the port was almost completely destroyed by the Germans in retreat from the city. In the post-war reconstruction projects were advanced, platforms were designed to provide a better commercial port, and backdrops were designed around 5 meters. With the increase of trade, due to the economic boom of those years, surfaced the problem of too shallow for vessels of larger tonnage due to siltation and mud carried by the river Pescara. It solved the problem using periodic dredging of the seabed of the port-channel.
In the 80's, a group of entrepreneurs citizens suggested the municipal plan for a marina with related facilities to support recreation and navigation. It was born a modern marina which has moorings and advanced shipbuilding facilities. The port of Pescara is the third marina in Italy for the number of berths after Savona and Naples. For some years been honored with the European Union Blue Flag for the quality of services offered.
In the harbor you distinguish the following tasks:
Comparison with other ports in the Adriatic Sea, the port of Pescara has not been very productive development both in terms of tourism, and freight, all of which is due to the problem of too shallow to prevent the landing of ships including tourist largest tonnage; also another problem is due to the silting of the river Pescara mud transported by boats that have forced several times to the direction of the port dredging expensive, so these problems have led to repercussions with regard to tourism, because the company Italian maritime Snav that connected the city of Abruzzo in Split in Croatia with small modern hydrofoils, has decided to move to the Port of Ortona thus depriving the city of the maritime tourism an important link.
To solve the problem of silting harbor was provisionally appointed a specialist company in Venice, which it picked up the mud spilled into the open sea, but the future of the port will depend very much also from the recovery of the former fruit and vegetable market now COFA abandoned, because the Chamber of Commerce of Pescara has purchased the former COFA and adjacent areas that will be retrieved and used for tourist accommodation facilities, fairs and trade also carried out work that will include the construction of a heliport in the marina, interventions to improve the internal structures of the harbor, dredging operations of the docks, the breakwater and restore the seabed and also even the extension of existing docks to permit mooring of large vessels safely on a depth of about 9 meters.
over 200,000 square meters.
Services and Facilities:
These are the data on the goods and passengers for the year 2010
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