The Port System Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea Settentrionale announced that the Court of Appeal of Rome, relating to the litigation initiated by Grandi Lavori Fincosit for the recognition of compensation for the first lot of the works strategic objectives of the port of Civitavecchia, with a sentence published This morning it further reduced the amount that the port authority will have to and which will be less than 1% of the original request. The Port Authority recalled that the cause, of significant importance significant economic and strategic strategy, originates from works and contractual relationships dating back over the years and has seen the counterpart make a total claim for damages of €209.8 million of euros. In the first instance, the court had already accepted only to a small extent GLF's requests, condemning the Port Authority to pay of about 1.7 million plus interest, an amount already of great lower than the sums originally requested. With the Today's decision, the Court of Appeal partially upheld the first and seventh grounds of appeal proposed by GLF, but also upheld the first ground of cross-appeal by the Port System Authority, thus determining a further reduction of 20% of the amount paid in the first degree. The total amount due by the Port Authority now stands at 1.5 million plus interest.

"The publication of this sentence - underlined the extraordinary commissioner of the Port Authority, Raffaele Latrofa - represents for our Authority an important and strongly positive. Reduce the outlay to less than 1% compared to what initially requested by the other party means having conducted a solid and far-sighted defense." "This sentence - added - allows you to release sums set aside that for years have frozen the budget and can now be used for the development of the three ports".