The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Southern and Ionian signed the deed of submission and the single SEZ authorization for the establishment of Baker Hughes - New Pignone in the port of Corigliano Calabro ( of 26 October 2023). With the new investment in Calabria, the group American, through its subsidiary Nuovo Pignone, aims to upgrading of its plant in Vibo Valentia and the creation of a website in Corigliano Calabro to support the market liquefied natural gas and the development of solutions for energy transition and digitalisation.

Referring to the activity that the U.S. group will carry out in Corigliano Calabro, the Secretary General of the PSA, Alessandro Guerri, explained that "producing in port plug and play industrial modules, receiving components from the sea and shipping the huge finished artifacts by sea, falls within the strategy of the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Southern and Ionian for the revival of the Ionian ports. The "production of binding at the edge of the quay", in fact - Guerri specified - has already made it possible to grant a similar licence, although smaller in scale, also in the port of Crotone. The Authority As part of this strategy, the port sector has a large number of files open with additional potential investors'.