The Superior Council of Public Works has approved the technical adaptation to the Master Plan of the port of Gioia Tauro, green light that allows the System Authority Port of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas to start the works of deepening and consolidation of the port channel along the eastern quay, in sections A, B and C. The Port Authority has recalled that these are non-substantive changes which, for the their nature, do not involve a "variation" to the Plan Port Regulator but which affect the adjustment of the structure plano-altimetric and bathymetric analysis of the works envisaged in the PRP for pursue specific objectives, while maintaining the same choices Strategic.

In addition, the PSA recalled that the technical functional adaptation was necessary to offer the port a greater and uniform depth of the seabed along the entire channel aimed at expanding the competitiveness of the port, Italy's first transhipment port. Through the adoption of the ATF In this way, it will be possible to proceed with the work of consolidation and deepening of the port channel at -18 meters also in section A, which has a length of 783 metres, in section B (457 metres) and section C (645 metres), which currently have an altitude of -16 meters.