On Monday, the Impact Assessment Commission Ministry of Environment and Energy Security expressed a favourable opinion, subject to prescriptions, to the assessment of environmental impact of the Darsena Europa, the project for the Construction of the new platform for containers and traffic ro-pax of the port of Livorno. The Port System Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, announcing the approval of the Commission, specified that the transition has yet to be formalised with the publication of the appropriate decree and the sending of the to the competent structures of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport which is responsible for the latest evaluations.

"We don't know," the president said of the AdSP and commissioner of the work, Luciano Guerrieri - the framework prescriptive, we are waiting to receive it. It must be said, however, that With the approval of the last few days, however, the project comes to an end an important turning point, and thus aims at a single direction: the start of the construction phase of a work awaited by decades by all the economic operators that gravitate around port'.

The Tuscan port authority recalled that in the first phase the project involves the construction of public works: built a 4.6-kilometre external breakwater consisting of the new breakwater (North Dam) and the new Meloria Dam (while the old one will be demolished). Internal dams will also be built for 2.3 km, to delimit the new reclaimed basins (100 hectares) that will be to the existing ones (70 hectares) and already subject to a consolidation project. The interventions of dredging are aimed at the basing of new works, the deepening of the seabed of the access channel and the construction of internal docks and docks. Altogether 15.7 million cubic metres of sediment will be dredged, will be excavated to bring the seabed to the entrance of the access to the Darsena at -20 meters and at -17/-16 meters in the mirrors (set up to reach -20). Excavated material will be poured into the new reclaimed areas, which will be become, in the second phase of the project, the future terminal ro-ro.

During the completion of the public works, the allocation procedures for the implementation and management of the container terminal, which will have a quay of 1.2 kilometres and all the necessary equipment to accommodate the ships of Ultima generation.