The plan to place two floating islands in the water off Marsalforn and Marsascala this summer has been abandoned because there was hardly any interest shown from businesses in taking up the project, the Times of Malta is informed.
The idea was hatched by Projects Malta, a new entity established by the government to come up with innovative projects involving public-private partnerships.
But sources close to the entity, which falls under the responsibility of Minister of Energy Konrad Mizzi, told this newspaper that the response to the two calls issued for tenders was “almost negligible”, so the project had to be shelved.
Projects Malta’s idea was to give entrepreneurs a 10-year concession on a 400-square-metre floating platform to be built by the business itself and to be used by bathers for free during the day.
Read more in the Times of Malta.