In the context of the 2019 Memorandum of Understanding, in recent days the President of the Adriatic Sea Port Authority Meridionale, Ugo Patroni Griffi, and Errico Stravato, director delegate of Sogesid, the in-house engineering company of the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security, have A new agreement has been signed for the support of technical-specialist in the recovery and re-functionalization of the Deep Seabed Basin of the port of Manfredonia, which provides for the construction of an approach pier about two kilometres long, with a minimum seabed of the port basin of about -10/11 meters.

The port of Manfredonia is equipped with five quays and a ship dock along the approach wharf. The quays A1, A2, A3 and A4 are intended exclusively for loading and unloading of miscellaneous goods, including non-hazardous liquids. Quay A5 is reserved for ships handling cargo hazardous substances, both liquid and gaseous. Currently, the juxtaposition for ships along the approach wharf is not operational due to of its degradation. The pier, in addition to having a two-way traffic, accommodates conveyor belts and pipelines for the handling of goods.

The investment amounts to approximately €120 million, with Sogesid Responsible for the supervision of works and safety coordinator during the phase Executive. The duration of the agreement shall be three years or in any case until the testing of the works.

"We are starting," explained Patroni Griffi, "the of a massive project that will allow us to Redesigning and giving new life to the Sipontino airport. Through the agreement we entrust to the Ministry's in-house company of Infrastructure, the construction management of an extremely complex. The structures of the High Seabed Basin, in fact, are affected by a critical condition that is substantially due to corrosion degradation of reinforcements and effects on concrete. The work is aimed at not only to preserve the work, through cortical interventions, of repair and restoration of the original working conditions protection of reinforcement and its replacements, but also the contextual re-functionalization that will be obtained implementing, in particular on the approach wharf and in a manner also on the quays, measures concerning the structural consolidation of the elements and the improvement of the their behaviour under seismic action'.