The large port of Syracuse will be equipped with a new station achieved through the renovation and redevelopment of an old shed that served as a warehouse, abandoned for over twenty years, located at the Sant'Antonio pier, "in a position - highlighted the president of the Authority of Port System of the Eastern Sicilian Sea, Francesco Di Sarcina, presenting the project - strategic to guarantee services and port activities".

Di Sarcina announced that the tender to contract the works is now ready and covers an area of 6.5 hectares. In the first phase, will proceed with the internal renovation of the old building, for which a design is being completed executive, already in the tender in the coming weeks. In second, work will be done on the external part (building and areas surrounding areas), which must have a able to dialogue with the landscape and urban insertion, and will be carried out through the promotion of an international design competition in two phases: in the first the screening of a project idea; in the second the in-depth analysis with the related assignment of the design PFTE and executive of the original idea aimed at starting the tender procedure for the construction of the works envisaged in the design drawings that won the design competition.

Emphasizing that the project demonstrates the sense of concreteness of the Port Authority, the mayor of Syracuse, Francesco Italy, expressed the satisfaction of the municipal administration for the fact "that it has been decided not to invest in new structures but to redevelop the existing and, moreover, to to do so through an international competition involving the faculty of Architecture of the University of Catania and the orders Professional. I am sure that the final result - he added - will be worthy of the city and that, from this new infrastructure, the beauty of our Grand Port will be able to be enjoyed by tourists and Syracusans».