For Altreconomia magazine, I’m producing a series of reports on the transformations of Italian cruise ports. The articles highlight the issues with ongoing projects to expand terminals and docks in order to accommodate ever more — and ever larger — ships. This form of tourism is highly damaging from both environmental and economic standpoints. Port authorities support it, while mayors and citizens oppose it.
The reports cover the cases of Ancona, Fiumicino (Rome), Venice, Cagliari, Ravenna, Livorno, Genoa, and Trieste.
The articles
- Ad Ancona i cittadini si battono contro l’ampliamento del porto (In Ancona, citizens are fighting against the port expansion), Altreconomia n. 281, May 2025
- Il nuovo porto privato di Fiumicino è un pericoloso precedente (The new private port in Fiumicino is a dangerous precedent), Altreconomia n. 282, June 2025
- Le grandi navi non se ne sono mai andate da Venezia (Large ships have never left Venice), Altreconomia.it, June 24, 2025
- Il crocierismo ha omologato anche Cagliari, trasformando in modo radicale il tessuto urbano (Cruise tourism has homogenized Cagliari, radically transforming its urban fabric), Altreconomia.it, July 30, 2025)
- Le crociere non portano soldi. Il nuovo terminal di Ravenna e l’inquinamento delle grandi navi (Cruises don’t bring money. Ravenna’s new terminal and the pollution from large ships), Altreconomia.it, September 17, 2025
- Il sacrificio di Trieste al crocierismo. Così le grandi navi stanno cambiando la città (Trieste’s sacrifice to cruise tourism. How large ships are changing the city), Altreconomia.it, October 29, 2025
