On Tuesday, the Management Committee of the Port System of the Western Ligurian Sea has approved financial statements 2024 forecast of the entity that forecasts revenues for a value of €182.4 million and expenditure of €309.2 million largely related to the implementation of further measures of the ordinary works programme and extraordinary. As far as tax revenue is concerned, in 2024 A total of €57 million is expected to be in line with the trend of maritime traffic. With regard to the management of state-owned land, rent values are expected concessionaires granted by deed or licence for €49.85 million with an increase of +21.9% largely determined by the application of the Istat adjustment of 2023 and 2024. Revenue amounted to €51.6 million, essentially from state and regional transfers of €20.9 million and the forecast of financial transactions of €29.52 million of euros intended to cover large-scale interventions infrastructure.

On the expenditure side, the 2024 budget provides for current expenditure amounting to €91.1 million and expenditure commitments in part capital of €201.6 million, of which approximately €176.3 million intended for works, buildings and extraordinary maintenance, 15.4 million for loan repayments, 7.8 million for investments in tangible and intangible assets.

Illustrating the programmes concerning the implementation of works, the Port Authority has highlighted that significant are the interventions of the ordinary programme, especially for the port of Savona - Vado Ligure with a spending commitment in 2024 of 41.2 million euros, while 22.7 million euros are planned for the Genoa airport million euros. The most important interventions for the airport of Savona-Vado concern the safety of the Segno stream (17.8 million), the hydraulic arrangement of the Rio Sant'Elena (5.6 million million), "Agri-food" projects (9.2 millions), works to renovate the slope in the frieze to the access roads to the port of Vado Ligure for expansion intermodal terminal (€3.5 million) and verification of the design of the second lot of the Vado Dam Ligurian. For the Genoa airport, the main interventions concern the maintenance of buoys, lights and signalling (4.5 million), the Reblooming of the cliff to protect the road network serving the PSA terminal in the port of Prà (6.5 million) and the restoration of the wave protection wall and the extension of the West Brush in the Technical Dock (2.8 million).

With reference to the extraordinary program, in Genoa there are commitments of more than €100 million are planned for interventions infrastructure in the area of Ship Repairs (€26.9 million), Concenter (€30 million), Carmagnani-Superba relocation (€30 million) € million), infrastructure works in Calata Bettolo (€ 6.1 million), railway infrastructure, Ronco Canepa and Ronco Canepa container terminals doubling of the Ronco-Sommergibile link road (5 million), Nuova Torre Pilots (1.5 million) and modernisation and extension of the fleet Bettolo-Rugna (1 million).

At its meeting on Monday, the Committee also gave its Green light for the signing of the agreement relating to the agreement between ASPI, Liguria Region, Port Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea, Municipality of Genoa and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, with which A budget of €20 million is provided for the implementation of interventions aimed at improving logistical access to the port area of Savona, in line with the development programmes defined by the PSA and the territory.

With reference to port work, the Management Committee approved the disbursement of a contribution for re-employment in other duties of partially eligible personnel amounting to €99,000 in in favour of the CULP of Savona and 672 thousand euros for the CULMV of Genoa, in relation to the costs incurred by the Companies during the period July-September 2023.