The Shift in Policy For decades, land reclamation sat on the fringes of Maltese policy. It surfaced in pre-election chatter, appeared in speculative renders, and occasionally in talk-show bravado, but never in concrete economic planning. Budget 2026 changes that. For the first time, the government has identified a specific site for large-scale reclamation tied to industrial and maritime use rather than real estate. This proposal raises a simple economic question: can creating

Malta’s geostrategic location in the Mediterranean makes it ideal for transhipping. At the Malta Freeport in Birżebbuġa, roughly 96% of...