In 2025, compared to the previous year, delays increased on the timetable for the progress of infrastructure works in the Northern Italy, with 43% of the 84 infrastructure interventions that has progressed in line with the timetables (the 48% in 2024), with 36% advancing but with some slowdown (35% in 2024) and with 21% being seriously affected delay (17% in 2024). This photograph of the progress of the Construction sites of the main infrastructure works in the North was recently taken by OTI Nord, the Territorial Observatory on Northern Infrastructures promoted by all the Confindustria of Northern Italy.

In the latest annual report of OTI Nord it is noted that the improvements in infrastructure works concern the port system, with 100% of the works in line with the times. This observation was not enough to reassure Federagenti, the Italian Federation of Shipping Agents and maritime mediators, who asks for "real times" regarding the progress of infrastructure construction.

OTI Nord's opinion on the degree of completion of the works port is evidently not absolutely shared by Federagenti, according to which the list of strategic works in ports whose implementation is delayed includes almost all the seaports. "I think the time has come - he said The President of the National Federation of Shipping Agents, Paolo Pessina - to carry out a real check-up not only in light of the obligations, which no one is talking about, of the PNRR, but of the Much more serious risk of missing the appointment with the markets and therefore international customers, to whom it has been conveyed a communication that is proving to be false".

"It is not yet too late," added Pessina to address a critical issue that is far too serious and not so much to public opinion or to institutions (which already the extent of the postponements in the entry into service of the new works. Essential - underlined the president of Federagenti - do not play with false cards, assuming late revisions of projects or betting on the poor memory of those who these works pivoted for its operational planning and commercial. Today the technique of communicating in extremis does not pay, it only makes you lose traffic and reliability".