On Tuesday, the Management Committee of the Port System of the Central Adriatic Sea has approved the 2024 budget of the institution that defines investments in port infrastructure for €125.09 million, part of a Triennial of Works 2024-2026 which plans interventions in the system with total resources of €767.4 million. The PSA has announced that for the first time in the three-year programme 2024-2026, both works and services, funds are included for in-depth studies and the development of planning of the peninsula in the port of Ancona, i.e. extension of the port to the sea so as to promote a growth prospects, enhancing, in particular, the of Ro-Ro ferry traffic.

The port authority has announced that the expenditure forecast of the 2024 budget, for the capital part, is equal to 233 million for the main works indicated in the programme three-year period, previous spending programmes and programming three-year service and supply period. Coverage of these expenses comes from the administrative surplus of €270 million, the result of public funding sedimented in recent years and now activated as well as the institution's balance sheet assets. The forecast is to end 2024 with a surplus of €38 million, largely part bound for the planned works. The result of Free administration is therefore expected to be 500 thousand euros. In the In addition, in 2023, the Port System Authority launched tenders for works financed by the National Recovery Plan and Resilience and the National Plan complementary to the PNRR to a total of €38.05 million and the procedures have been put in place to launch the works contracts for a further €11.25 million.

The public works programme for 2024 includes, among other things, priority interventions, structural adjustment in the port of Ancona of quay 23, with an investment of €17 million, the excavation for the adjustment to -14 meters of the seabed in front of the first section of the straight quay (€4.5 million), the deepening of the seabed of quay 26 and other commercial quays (12 million), the modernisation of quay cranes 25 (1.6 million euros) millions). For the shipbuilding industry, following the agreement with Fincantieri, the completion of the design is expected for the construction of the second set-up quay and the call for tenders (€14.4 million). In addition, in the Doric port, work will be carried out to complete the works envisaged in the Port Master Plan, preparatory to the implementation of the peninsula, with the filling of the reclaimed basin and the quay of shore.