Today the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, visited the construction site area of the Darsena Europa, the expansion of the port of Livorno to the sea for which Today the first 450 meters of breakwater have been built, which will delimit a new 15-hectare reclaimed tank intended to house the material resulting from the activities of the basement of the new reefs and that in the future will be consolidated to allow the landing of both the future artery Florence-Pisa-Livorno road network and the railway network.

"It is - explained Enrico Pribaz, technical manager - of the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Sea Northern, during the visit - of site interventions ante-operam started while activities are still in progress environmental monitoring', adding that the all of these monitoring will be presented to the Ministry of the Environment in March 2026 for the final go-ahead. The latter step is preparatory to the realization of the rest breakwaters and dredging activities. Overall, the construction of a dam is planned external breakwater of 4.6 kilometers consisting of the new pier of and the new Meloria dam in the inner circle (the old dam will be demolished). Dams will then be built for 2.3 km, which will delimit the new filled by 130 hectares that will be added to those (from 70 hectares). As for dredging, 17 million cubic meters of material to bring the new canal of access (entrance on the north side) at a depth of -17 meters and at a depth of -16 docks, which however will be built in order to hold up a deepening of the seabed at -20.

On the occasion of the visit, Minister Salvini and the Commissioner extraordinary of the Port Authority, Davide Gariglio, also addressed the resource node. The economic framework of the public works of the Darsena Europa is around 554 million euros. It amounts to about 440 million euros is the out-of-pocket cost of interventions at sea, which 50 million euros must be added for consolidation of the first tank, the 32 million euros of environmental expenses (including 22 million monitoring activities and six million euros for the purchase of carbon credits to offset emissions) and any charges of the economic framework (expenses for contingencies, etc.). The work is already financed, but there are still 130 million euros for the completion of the road and rail connections (70 million) and for the consolidation of of the second reclaimed tank (another 50 million). To these we they would then have to add any 40 million euros needed to build a new bridge that in the near future will allow to all the yachts and superyachts of the shipyards present on the Navicelli Canal (which flows into the Scolmatore canal), go out directly and easily into the open sea.

On the subject of resources, Salvini clarified that the work that is being carried out is already financed and that "they will not be any one hundred million euros more to block development of the port, this is out of the question".