The Port System Authority of the Sea of Sicily Orientale has announced that the technical and economic feasibility study of the new track that will connect the port of Augusta to the network managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana. The investment is expected to be around €110 million raised in large amounts of the thanks to the resources of the National Recovery Plan and Resilience.

"It is a matter of - underlined the president of the AdSP, Francesco Di Sarcina - of an important stage in the path that sees Augusta projected into the future, especially as a transit hub for container in Sicily. The port will be equipped with a valuable Railway Infrastructure: Since the Establishment of My Governance - Di Sarcina pointed out - we have obtained a substantial revision of the project by RFI, which initially provided only for the pick-up and drop-off track of the loading yard away from the port (what will be done in the first phase, which has already been funded), therefore, thanks to subsequent funds, the procurement of which the PSA is actively working, the completion of the works with a railway link, about 250 meters long, which will descend from the pick-up and delivery line made in the first phase, up to the docks of the port so that trains can be loaded directly into the quay. A fundamental need, not foreseen in the project designed to meet the railway advantage that consists of speeding up loading and unloading times'.