Cagliari port

Cagliari port
Data
UN / LOCODE	IT CAG
operator	Port Authority of Cagliari ; ( ADSP del Mare di Sardegna )
opening	Antiquity
Port type	Freight and passenger port
Passengers	580,730 (2016)
Throughput	40,020,252 t (2016)
Container (TEU)	723,037 TEU (2016)
website	www.porto.cagliari.it
Geographic information
place	Cagliari
province	Cagliari Province
Country	Italy
	Aerial view of the canal harbor (left) & old harbor (center)
Coordinates	39 ° 12 '19 " N , 9 ° 6' 47" E Coordinates: 39 ° 12 '19 " N , 9 ° 6' 47" E
	Location port of Cagliari

The port of Cagliari ( Italian Porto di Cagliari ) is an Italian seaport in the south of Sardinia . The port consists of three separate parts that are located on the Gulf of Cagliari : the old port directly in front of the old town of Cagliari , the container terminal at the new Porto Canale in the area of the Santa Gilla lagoon and the tanker terminal further south-west near Sarroch . The latter is sometimes viewed as an independent port, otherwise mostly assigned to the port of Cagliari under the name "Cagliari-Sarroch", in whose statistics it is then included. With a cargo handling of 40 million tons (2016), the port (including Sarroch) is one of the most important in Italy .

Infrastructure

Via Roma runs along the old port and is easily accessible from all of the city's arterial roads . At the old port is also the main train station and immediately to the west of it the freight station . Almost all passenger trains that go to and from Cagliari stop at the stop at Cagliari-Elmas Airport , which is seven kilometers away . Line 1 of the Cagliari light rail is to be extended to the port. The most important traffic routes to the surrounding area are the Cagliari – Golfo Aranci railway line running north and the branch line to Iglesias in south-west Sardinia, which branches off at Decimomannu , as well as the partly motorway-like state roads 131 to the north, 125 to the east coast, 130 to the west and, with regard to the container, to the west - and the tanker terminal, the SS 195 to the southwest.

Old Port

It is not possible to clearly divide the old port into functional areas. In general, one can speak of a passenger and commercial port in the west and a marina in the east, with a small military part between these two areas. The western area but also as Marina and fishing port used, one originally used for military purposes Pier is now used primarily for civilian purposes, while the insides of the harbor moles than Piers a kind of multi-purpose reserve form.

The shore length of all quays in the old port is almost six kilometers. In the far west are the two piers Rinascita and Sabaudo . Because the port basin there is up to 12 meters deep, these two piers are mainly used by large cruise ships and ferries . A small cruise terminal has been located on the Rinascita pier since 2016 , while the Sabaudo pier is mostly used for ferry traffic. Clockwise follows the Sanità Pier with the Stazione Marittima , a facility for passenger handling, and then the Dogana Pier with the old Darsena harbor . This oldest area of the old port will only be used for tourism in the future. The center of the port was reserved for the Italian Navy for a long time . When they were asked at the turn of the millennium to make their Ichnusa pier available for the construction of a cruise terminal, they reduced the military area to the barracks northeast of the pier, but reserved their military joint use. Only after the completion of the cruise terminal in 2008 did it become clear that the necessary deepening of the harbor basin there would endanger the foundations of the pier, which is why the originally planned civil use had to be abandoned. This area is now intended for sailing teams, large luxury yachts and smaller cruise ships. The cruise terminal on the Rinascita pier was built as a replacement. The naval base command has recourse to berths at the pier if necessary . In the eastern part there are two marinas with a total of around 850 boat berths.

Cargo handling and passenger traffic in the old port is relatively low. The considerable total throughput figures are due to the container and tanker terminals. The ports in northern Sardinia play a more important role in ferry traffic because they offer the shorter and therefore faster connections to the Italian mainland. The port of Olbia recorded around three million passengers in 2016, while Cagliari only had a little over half a million. Overall, ferry traffic is exposed to considerable competition from low-cost air traffic .

Container terminal

Canal port with container terminal

The artificial canal port with the container terminal is located southwest of the old port, separated from it only by the channel to the lagoon of Santa Gilla ( ⊙ ). Cagliari is just a few miles from the major shipping route Gibraltar - Sues away, so that by euro gate and Contship Italia operated container terminal primarily as a transshipment - Hub is used. The port basin is around 16 meters deep, the shore length of the quayside is around 1,600 meters, the capacity is around 1.3 million TEUs , and in 2016 the capacity utilization was a little more than 50 percent. In 2017, the throughput decreased significantly. There are plans to rebuild and expand the canal port and to relocate the industrial activities and smaller shipyards that remained in the old port to this new area. There is a Guardia di Finanza base at the canal port . 39.204722222222 9.0813888888889

Tanker terminal

These facilities to the south-west of Cagliari are not a port in the conventional sense, but several fire fighting bridges . The 1,720 meter long Pontile Syndial ( ⊙ ) with four berths for chemical liquid bulk goods is still on the coast of the city of Cagliari . This bridge is connected to the Macchiareddu industrial complex to the northwest of the canal port. In the petroleum refining of Sarroch the two jetties are Polimeri Europa (1,250 meters, 2 berths) and Sara (2,670 meters, 11 berths) ( ⊙ ). In 2016, a total of more than 26 million tons of liquid goods were handled at the three extinguishing bridges. The industrial plants in Macchiareddu and Sarroch have seriously polluted the environment, including the bodies of water at the fire fighting bridges. 39.158972222222 9.044833333333339.092055555556 9.0299722222222

history

Bay of Cagliari 1804

The Piers Sabaudo and Rinascita , behind the moles of the canal harbor, from the Bastione San Remy seen from

The history of the port can be traced back to the Phoenician colonization . At first, the lagoon of Santa Gilla served as a base on the already important shipping route between the western and eastern Mediterranean . Only later did the Phoenicians lay the port in front of today's old town, which the Romans used as a starting point for the conquest of Sardinia. During the imperial era , the port was under the control of an official named Procurator ad ripam . At that time, mainly grain, lead , copper , salt, textiles and other handicraft products were handled . At the time of the persecution of Christians , numerous people were sentenced to forced labor in Sardinian lead mines because of their beliefs and were therefore smuggled through the port. After a vandal interlude , Sardinia and with it the port of Cagliari came under Eastern Roman or Byzantine control for over 300 years . Back then, Cagliari and other coastal towns were repeatedly attacked by Saracens . In the 13th century the port and the island were under Pisan control, from the 14th to the beginning of the 18th century first under Aragonese and then under Spanish rule. Back then, Cagliari was an important stop on the so-called Ruta de las islas , the island route from Barcelona via the Balearic Islands , Sardinia, Sicily , Crete and Cyprus to the Middle East . With the shift in the focus of shipping from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, the island route and with it the port of Cagliari lost its importance.

In 1720 the Kingdom of Sardinia went to the later Italian royal house of Savoy . The small port of Cagliari remained unchanged for almost two more centuries and continues to be the target of barbarian raids . In 1835 a line connection to Genoa was set up, and in 1879 the station at the port was opened, making it much easier to reach from large parts of the island. The walls and other fortifications between the port and the city were demolished, including the Palazzo Sanità , where certain goods and especially animals were examined to prevent the spread of diseases. The name of the Pier Sanità there is still reminiscent of the former building, just as the Pier Dogana next to it refers to a former customs post. In early 1943, the city and its port were badly damaged by Allied air raids. In the course of the reconstruction, the port facilities were expanded considerably. Construction of the oil terminal and refineries at Sarroch began in the 1960s. In the 1970s, plans were made to build a new industrial port in the Santa Gilla lagoon, and a container terminal was then built. There are several historical and structural parallels between this canal port and the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria . In addition to container handling, the cruise business has grown in importance in recent years.