Today at the headquarters of the Port System Authority of La Spezia the president of the institution, Mario Sommariva, and Davide Adreani, representing the joint venture awarded the contract contract consisting of Fincosit (agent), R.C.M Costruzioni (principal) and Agnese Costruzioni (principal), signed the contract for the construction of the new cruise pier on Calata Paita, in the port of La Spezia. It is a work of value of €47.9 million, in addition to €542 thousand for charges from the safety. The contract is co-financed by the Complementary Fund PNRR and the expected duration of the works is 710 days.

The project of the new Cruise Pier involves the construction of a new open quay structure, overlooked by a square multifunctional, with the function of an interchange hub between the ship and the mainland. The forecourt will be functional, at first, to host the primary disembarkation functions together with the current cruise terminal, and then become the base on which to build a good part of the new Maritime Station. The cruise pier, shaped trapezoidal floor plan with a surface area of 16,900 square meters, it is consisting of an open deck on cellular caissons and includes the construction of two quays with a length of 393 and 339 meters for the docking of two state-of-the-art cruise ships that They will be powered by cold ironing.

"It is a work of art," Sommariva stressed. fundamental for the development of the port's cruise traffic La Spezia, partly financed by the Complementary Fund to the PNRR, but it is, above all, the work that will trigger the overall development of the port according to the lines traced by the Current Master Plan: Cruise Pier, New Ravano Terminal, expansion of the Gulf Terminal, new Waterfront of Calata Paita and the completion of the railway works and the new respect. These works, which will be carried out according to schedule, will be carried out on a schedule practically contextual, they represent the fulfilment of a that will ensure, as a whole, the development of the industrial-logistic, tourism and a new structure of the relations between port and city in the name of the recovery of usability of new urban spaces for citizens. The Signing this contract thus initiates a new phase for the future of the city and the port."