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PORTS
The update to the DPSS of the ports of Sardinia has been adopted
Resolution of the Management Committee of the Port System Authority
Cagliari
July 24, 2026
This morning the Management Committee of the System Authority
Port of the Sea of Sardinia has adopted the update to the
Strategic System Planning Document that incorporates the
indications of the Municipalities, an act which will be followed by a new
Decision-making services conference with the involvement of the same
Municipalities concerned for subsequent transmission to the Ministry of
Transport Infrastructures and the Sardinia Region.
With regard to the ports of the Sardinian system, for the port of
Cagliari, the DPSS proposes a dual and complementary vocation. From a
part, the Canal Port which is configured as a multipurpose hub
dedicated to commercial traffic, logistics, containers,
bulk cargo, ro-ro traffic, industrial activities and
to shipbuilding. On the other, the historic port, which
consolidates its vocation for cruising, yachting
recreational services, tourist services and port-city interaction.
The nearby port of Sarroch - Porto Foxi confirms its peculiarity
in the energy, oil and gas sectors
chemical-industrial, representing one of the main poles
for liquid bulk and for the support of the
energy in the Mediterranean. With the DPSS, Olbia reaffirms its
role as a primary port of call in the Mediterranean for traffic
passenger and commercial, strengthening the Ro-Pax and Ro-Ro functions.
At the same time, it aims to develop its vocation
cruise, pleasure boating and shipbuilding, with
Particular attention to refitting and services for the maxi segments
and giga yachts. Porto Torres is articulated in complementarity
between the civic port and the industrial port: the first is oriented towards the
passenger traffic, cruises, pleasure boating and
fishing; the second to goods, logistics, activities
energy, industrial and shipbuilding. The airport
Golfo Aranci confirms its vocation oriented towards
passenger connections, cruises, pleasure boating
and the enhancement of those historical identity activities
related to fishing and traditional seafaring. The port of
Oristano - Santa Giusta strengthens its specialization in
bulk traffic and in industrial activities and
by enhancing the role of regional energy hub
connected to the LNG supply chain and developing, at the same time, the
cruise sector. Portovesme consolidates its role as a
industrial and energy port at the service of the production hub of the
Sulcis, combining this function with that of natural connection
with the Island of San Pietro and Carloforte. For Santa Teresa Gallura the
DPSS strengthens its specialist vocation in ro-pax connections
with Corsica and, through the strengthening of the
port infrastructures, opens, in the future, to the market
cruise of small luxury ships. The port of Arbatax,
finally, it consolidates a multifunctional vocation that integrates traffic
commercial and passenger, project cargo related to the activities
for the production of industrial and cruise components
luxury. For the Ogliastra airport, precisely in support of the relevant
tourist function of the territory and local tradition
fishing boat, the DPSS provides for an expansion of the port areas from
allocate, in particular, to pleasure boating,
shipbuilding and fishing.
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