The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Sea Settentrionale has activated a tender procedure for the launch of dredging activities in the port of Livorno with which it is expected to remove 195,000 cubic meters of sediment as part of a Area of almost 200 thousand square meters. The estimated value of the contract is EUR 6.8 million. The institution specified whereas the decision to proceed with these interventions arose in follow-up to the evaluation of the results provided by the latest surveys bathymetrics carried out in port that showed a generalized burial due, presumably, to the contribution of materials coming from the Navicelli canal (root of the Darsena Tuscany), from the Ugione stream (at the root of the Darsena Ugione), from the Botticina stream (in the Industrial Canal) and from the North entrance.

Among the planned interventions, the deepening excavation of the Pier 75, intended mainly for cruise ships and today not fully usable in all its operating length. The public approach is 300 meters long but in the last stretch, of about 60 linear meters, it is not in fact usable because Its seabed, which on average reaches an altitude of -9 meters, rises to -5.4 meters. The intervention will therefore be aimed at restoration of the full functionality of the quay that can therefore accommodate ships even larger than those Current.

In addition to Pier 75, they are affected by the interventions of excavation of the seabed overlooking the approaches of the Darsena Petroli (the n.10 and 11, whose maximum allowable draught will be increased at an altitude of -13 meters), and those of the approaches 36A and 38, at the entrance of the Industrial Canal, whose seabed will be brought to a quota of -9.5 meters.

Of the 195 thousand cubic meters of sediment resulting from the activities dredging, 190 thousand will be flowed into the second tank of filled and 5 thousand will be transferred to recovery plants and disposal.

The works are expected to be carried out in 330 days natural and consecutive starting from the delivery of the construction site. The Subjects interested in participating in the tender will have time until to 8 August to submit tenders.