"We are confident in a rapid allocation of resources envisaged, amounting to about 50 million euros, in order to start adapt the infrastructures and be ready in two or three years with the aim of starting wind power activities offshore in the port of Augusta". The president said so of the Port System Authority of the Sicilian Sea Orientale, Francesco Di Sarcina, speaking today in Palermo at the session "Ports as industrial hubs. Building the Offshore Wind Supply Chain" as part of the "Offshore Wind Revolution" which will end tomorrow at the Palermo Marina Yachting.

"Thanks to the publication of the Energie decree - remembered Di Sarcina - it is ascertained to all intents and purposes that Augusta and Taranto have been identified as Italian hub ports for the development of the offshore wind sector. In Augusta we are arrived after a work of reflections and in-depth studies made both with the national government and with the regional government, so much so that with the President of the Region Renato Schifani, we have agreed on a unitary candidacy of Sicily, because Augusta has demonstrated to have, with respect to Sicilian ports, the aptitudes and greater spaces to be competitive. On the front of the organization of the areas, we have already started the discussions with the private operators concerned who hold these spaces necessary for the activities and with the subjects at the national sector interested in various ways in the overall supply chain and We plan to define the roles of each one in parallel to the adaptation of the indispensable ultrastructures".

"Augusta - highlighted Di Sarcina - already has all the the characteristics that the offshore logistics chain needs. We are sure that the assignment of this role, which the government has given us will stimulate major national and international players to dialogue with us, as we are already noticing in consideration of the fact that we are often invited abroad to discuss Augusta's role in the Mediterranean Sea."