Monti (Adsp MSo): “Trapani is a port from the sea for tourism and trade with North Africa”

“For Trapani it changes a lot”. Thus Pasqualino Monti, president of the Port Authority of the Western Sicilian Sea, on the sidelines of the conference ‘Noi, il Mediterraneo’ organized at the Pepoli Museum in Trapani, comments with Adnkronos on the inauguration, today, of the Cruise and Passenger Terminal of the port of Trapani. A structure that will change the role of the city both from a tourist and a commercial point of view. “First of all – underlines Monti – the port of Trapani becomes the gateway from the sea to a wonderful city and being the port of entry it also makes tourist incoming. Today the owners of the Cruises, MSC and Costa, are here, with whom we have built a path that led to the signing of a concession deed. They have undertaken to bring 1.5 million passengers to this part of Sicily so this effectively becomes their home, the home of those who will embark on cruises from Trapani and of those who they will climb in transit with these marvelous ships that already touched this destination but in a reduced way “. From a commercial point of view, however, Trapani becomes “the legal gateway for traffic and connections to and from Africa”. “When there are no cruise berths – explains the president of the Authority – national cabotage exists which has its importance because it connects the Trapani reality with the islands, because it moves goods and because it becomes the gateway from the sea for traffic with North Africa. Today all the freight traffic of the Tunisian community, for example, climbs in Palermo, tomorrow it will have a new home in Trapani and there will be the possibility of starting new traffic and inserting Trapani as an important stopover in that corridor that exists with North Africa and that sees this city as the first reality to touch for Italy “.