This morning in Livorno the direction for the construction of the Darsena Europa, the new port platform in the port of call of the city whose construction was started last May and will host initially a new container terminal and then subsequently also accommodate rolling stock and passenger traffic ( of the 12th May 2025). Commenting on the outcome of the meeting, the mayor of Livorno, Luca Salvetti, announced that "two Key dates, June 2027 to have 24 hectares of space that can be used, October 2030 completion of the work with the consequent start of activities on all the docks and areas envisaged by the project. In addition to this - specified the mayor - it has emerged strongly that, for complete the consolidation of the reclaimed tanks and the road and rail connections, funding still lacking to be quantified precisely, but which are around less than one hundred million euros".

Referring to the recent reassurances of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Infrastructure and Transport on the possibility of finding Additional funds for the implementation of the port project ( of 10 October 2025), Mayor Salvetti seized the opportunity to affirm that, "here, with this indication we can make reference to the availability declared by the Minister Salvini during his visit in the pre-election period, that is, to financially support the project in everything it takes to complete it as soon as possible. We are therefore waiting for the acts necessary to secure the horizon as far as money is concerned necessary for completion. Finally," added Salvetti I explicitly asked how they intend to move forward for this which concerns the future assignment to private individuals who have already been have expressed interest and desire to invest. That's an essential junction to ensure that the Darsena Europa becomes operational with an organic project and with economic and for the seaport and the city".

The private individuals to whom the mayor refers are, at the moment, the MSC shipowning group together with the Neri group and Lorenzini & C. and the Grimaldi shipping group ( of 1 and 24 April 2025).

In his speech, the President of the Supervisory Authority Port System of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Davide Gariglio, has highlighted the importance of "starting immediately with the projects of consolidation of the second reclaimed tank and completion of the road and rail connections". «As per timetable - he explained - by June 2027 we will have the consolidation of the first tank, while by October 2030 the dredging and construction of the dams will be completed forane. Pending the completion of these interventions, it becomes however, it is necessary to start the projects of technical and economic feasibility (PTFE) relating to the consolidation of the second reclaimed tank, upon completion of the rail connections and the extension of the Florence-Pisa-Livorno up to the Darsena Europa. The sooner we will be able to to have the projects, the sooner we will be able to know the cost of these works, so that we can begin to identify the sources of necessary for their start-up". Gariglio has done know that he has collected from the extraordinary commissioner of the work, Luciano Guerrieri, the willingness to speed up the procedures for the preparation of the procedures for the award of PTFE: "we must absolutely start these interventions, so as to have the Darsena Europa completely completed", is the appeal that Gariglio addressed to Commissioner Guerrieri not without having thanked for the active support.

The president of the ports of Livorno and Piombino concluded The intervention recalling the strategic importance of the new bridge on the spillway which 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. "It is - underlined - of a fundamental work for which found the money. It is unthinkable that the of the Darsena Europa is limited by this bottleneck. We move in a determined manner to find resources, making appeal also to the availability expressed by Minister Matteo Salvini during his visit to the port".