Oil spill risk assessment for a Single Buoy Mooring terminal in the Port of Taranto (Southern Italy)
Svitlana Liubartseva¹, Ivan Federico², Giovanni Coppini², Rita Lecci²
¹CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Predictions and Applications, Bologna, Italy (svitlana.liubartseva@cmcc.it)
²CMCC Foundation – Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Predictions and Applications, Lecce, Italy
Being situated in a semi-enclosed Mediterranean lagoon, the Port of Taranto represents a transport, industrial and commercial hub, where the port infrastructure, a notorious steel
Oil spill modeling for the Port of Taranto (SE Italy)
Svitlana Liubartseva¹, Ivan Federico², Giovanni Coppini², Rita Lecci²
¹CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Predictions and Applications, Bologna, Italy (svitlana.liubartseva@cmcc.it)
²CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ocean Predictions and Applications, Lecce, Italy
The Taranto Sea is a Mediterranean lagoon where alarming pressure is expected to further increase, due to industrialization, heavy ship traffic, and densely populated coasts.