Noise management of port expansion design

The ANCHOR LIFE project (LIFE17 GIE/IT/000562) main objective is to raise awareness, com-municate and disseminate the topic of noise pollution coming from ports affecting urban nearby ter-ritories among public Administrations and land management decisionmakers, port authorities, private companies involved in port activities, citizens living in port cities and academics. The designed pro-cess will be led by the development and application of three Best Practices for Noise Governance and Information, one for each partner port authority, in order to enhance relationships among all the port actors, i.e. port authorities, companies and local communities. In detail, ANCHOR LIFE aims to de-velop rewarding “Figures of Merits” in port noise governance and to test it in the port of Livorno, to design and install a Smart Port Noise Monitoring System in the port of Patras and to prepare a Guide-line for the definition of a common approach in port noise monitoring and assessment to be tested in the Port Expansion project of Melilla. The goal of the paper is to report how the assessment of the noise impact of the expansion project of Melilla will be performed within the activities of ANCHOR LIFE project.