(Adnkronos) - “In questi anni abbiamo adeguato l'offerta infrastrutturale dello scalo di Trapani a quelle che erano le esigenze del mercato. Trapani è una provincia molto bella, accogliente, ricca di cultura, storia, meritava un volume di traffico croceristico differente da quello che aveva. Nel 2025, infatti, al Porto di Trapani sono attesi circa 25mila passeggeri (+113% rispetto al 2024) e 58 approdi, con un incremento del 45%, rispetto ai 40 di quest’anno, confermando la Sicilia meta privilegiata nel panorama turistico internazionale”. Così all’Adnkronos il presidente dell’Autorità portuale del Mare di Sicilia occidentale, Pasqualino Monti, durante la presentazione dei numeri dello scalo di Trapani, una destinazion in costante crescita. Quest'anno cinque nuove compagnie hanno scelto Trapani come destinazione: Plein Cup con la MS Hamburg, Crystal Cruises con Crystal Serenity, Antarctica Cruises con Sylvia Earle, Phoenix Reisen con Deutschland e Regent Seven Seas Cruises con Seven Seas Mariner.
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00:00In recent years, we have adapted the infrastructural offer of Scallo di Trapani to the needs of the market.
00:12Trapani is a very rich province, very beautiful, very welcoming, rich in culture, history and gastronomy,
00:18and therefore it deserved a volume of cross-border traffic different from what it had.
00:23It has an important production behind it, in its province,
00:27and therefore it deserved to have benches that could move the goods in and out.
00:33And above all, it had a relationship to a city that faces its port,
00:39which deserved to see in its sea space something adequate compared to the history and culture that this city tells.
00:46Here, we have done this.
00:48We have adapted our infrastructural offer by building two terminals,
00:52the one with the excavations on one side and the one crossing on the other.
00:56We have adapted our infrastructural offer by bringing home a work that,
01:01from all of us, when I arrived, was almost impossible to do,
01:05which is the dragging of the booms,
01:07and therefore we have put in the hands of our cross-border dealer a 12-metre port
01:15that allows the entry of the cross-border ships,
01:18and the response to today's press conference with the announcement that next year
01:23we will double the volumes of this year,
01:25but above all that now the dealer sees feasible the goal of 250,000 passengers in Palermo,
01:33with companies that move only in luxury,
01:37therefore with passengers who are high spending,
01:40and above all throughout the year, except the first two months of the year, which are January and February.
01:46So from March to December,
01:48every week there will be a ship from the port of Trapani,
01:52let's say, to delight its passengers with the wonders that move in the city
01:58and behind the city in its province.
02:00All this we have done through the important work of a team that is that of the authority,
02:06we are very happy, now we will go in the phase of realization of the race band
02:13for that great project that we presented to the city of Trapani a few years ago,
02:21and it is a very beautiful and important project,
02:24that the environmental permitting, therefore the environmental authorizations,
02:27unfortunately have been too long, they have divided it in two,
02:30an immediately feasible part, which is the part of the Molotti,
02:34of the part of the connection with the Colombaia,
02:38an area, let's say, so important returned to the city,
02:42we start with that, so soon there will be the emanation of the race band,
02:46and then, once the environmental impact assessment is done,
02:50instead, on the remaining part, we will also proceed with the part of the tourist port.
02:55Here we are, even there, very satisfied, because this was my promise,
02:59before leaving I hope to be able to launch the work,
03:03and well, promises must be kept and you have to commit at least to be able to keep them.
03:08I think I did it and we are happy, soon we will meet again,
03:12not only to present the first functional lot of this work,
03:15but also to make you understand that the race band has left,
03:18and then there will be the company that will have to carry out this work.