The Superior Council of Public Works has expressed a favorable opinion on the technical and economic feasibility project of the New Forane Dam of Genoa

"The new forane dam of Genoa - highlighted the president of the AdSP, Paolo Emilio Signorini - represents a work key to improving maritime accessibility southern to the TEN-T Corridor Rhine - Alps, as several times affirmed in the main transport policy documents of the European Union. To build the new Dam we have chosen the more scrupulous design and authorization process, given the complexity of the work, its relevance for the future of the port and significant cost. As part of the design process which led to the important favourable opinion of the maximum technical design evaluation body within to the public administration has been developed both the analysis costs-benefits that the public debate so as to allow citizens, businesses and institutions to participate in the main design choices and to share the impacts on competitiveness and the environment'.

Extreme satisfaction with the favourable opinion of the Superior Council of Public Works has been expressed also from the mayor of Genoa, Marco Bucci: "we - he specified - we hope for a very fast and effective administrative process to give the city as soon as possible the economic repercussions and employment needed to develop the first port of the Mediterranean and the valid alternative to the ports of the North. The extraordinary commissioner and the commissioner structure - he noted Bucci - have once again demonstrated the effectiveness of the "Model Genoa'».

Even the president of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, remarked that "the new forane dam of the port of Genoa is one of those infrastructures essential for the development of the airport, in detail of its historical basin, that of Sampierdarena. The favorable opinion that came from the Superior Council of Public Works - he noted - is an important step forward towards its rapid realization, which confirms the good work done from the offices of local authorities and the AdSP of the Ligurian Sea Western, not at all obvious given the difficult path authorization and the intrinsic complexity of the work, a of the most impressive that will be realized throughout the Mediterranean in the coming years». "The new Dam, together with the Third Pass whose work is proceeding quickly, and the Gutter for which the placet has recently arrived of Minister Giovannini - continued Toti - will allow the our port system to become more efficient, more modern and capable of handling ever greater quantities of goods and people, thus being able to compete directly with the airports of Northern Europe».