Rada di Santa Panagia

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La rada di Santa Panagia is situated north of the municipality of Syracuse, within the bay of the same name, in the district Tiche, and takes its name from the district of Santa Panagia that rises near it. The rada is between Punta Magnisi and Capo Santa Panagia.

La rada
The rada is geographically part of the Gulf of Augusta; natural cove of about 30 km that develops north, while it borders south with the Gulf of Syracuse; other natural cove, also about 30 km.

The bridge that characterizes the nautical rada was built in 1976; it is still today the largest pontile in Europe with its 1340 meters long. The construction takes its name from the oil refinery built in Priolo Gargallo (former fraction of Syracuse became an autonomous municipality in the 1970s): Isab; Pontile ERG later, or more simply pontile of the bay of Santa Panagia.

Its main function is to land the oil ships, chimichieres and gasiers that come from several parts of the Mediterranean for the activity of transformation of crude oil and the chemical activities that take place at the Syracusan petrochemical pole, and allow them to load and unload the goods.

Attached to the pier there is a marina, although it should be noted that inside the rada is forbidden fishing.

The rada belongs to the marine circus of Syracuse, recandendo the geographical territory a few meters from the northern entrance of the city, but given its logistic service the rada is to the center of a dispute between the marine authorities siracusane and those augustane: it must in fact clarified that inside the free municipal consortium of Syracuse there are two distinct harbour agencies: the port of Augusta is one of own

Main characteristics of the pier

The pier is connected to the refinery through pipelines. Its main features are:

Length of and
Maximum fishing
5 docking points
Gross flow tonnage of the single dock up to 600.000 DWT; for a total of 1.944.000 DWT
Total capacity of tanks equal to : to receive crude oil and residual material from treated; for storage of finished and semi-finished products.

In 2012 it turns out the 15th port of Italy for the management of the goods, with a total of 12.158 tons coming from cargo ships (just inferior to the port of Cagliari that makes it register 12.576).

History of the Satin of Santa Panagia

1987 tragedy
In 1987 a strong explosion occurred on board the Cypriot oil ship Andreas Z: the ship with a crew of 25 c