The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Centrale announced the launch of the tender procedure for the partial demolition of the North pier of the port of Ancona and the regularization of the relative seabed, an intervention that aims to improve the safety conditions of navigation, make it easier to facilitate the entry and exit maneuvers of ships from the dock port, adapting the configuration of the entrance to the port to the evolution of the size of commercial and passenger ships.

The project is carried out in collaboration with the Interregional Superintendent of Public Works for Tuscany, Marche and Umbria, on the basis of an agreement signed by the president of the Port Authority, Mirco Carloni and the superintendent Giovanni Salvia. The port authority is the owner of the work while the Superintendent, after the drafting of the feasibility project technical and economic procedure, takes care of the conduct of the tender procedure and the subsequent supervision of the works.

The tender provides for the assignment of the executive design and the execution of the partial demolition works of the North pier, for a length of about 100 meters, and regularization of the related seabed, for a total amount based on the tender of over 10.1 million euros.

Bids must be submitted by the next 2 November. The executive design must be drawn up and delivered to the contracting authority within 30 days, while the time needed to complete all the planned works is the subject of of the contract is set at 360 days from the date of delivery of the works.

11 million euros are planned for the intervention by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, part of the refinancing of the funds of the Mims-Mef Interministerial Decree no. 52 of 2022, for the Port Authority of the Central Adriatic, on which Cipess has expressed a favourable opinion on 4 August.