Work to remove the pipes will begin in April Eni that run along the two banks of the access channel to the port of Livorno, limiting its accessibility. The surgery will last about seven months and the works will take place at night, from 11.00 p.m. to 7.00 a.m., to limit the inconvenience to the port traffic. To make the opening of the construction sites possible, the completion of the work to insert the new pipes inside the Microtunnels, completed by the Eni Refinery in 2023.

Following the removal of the original pipes, the Authority of the Port System of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea will be able to give full execution of the integrated contract, which is in the process of being awarded, for the widening of the canal up to 125 meters worth €20 million entirely paid for by the Port Authority.

The intervention consists of the quaying of one of the banks of the waterway to the commercial port, which is now wide in the narrower no more than 60 meters, 90 meters in the wider. The new quay will also allow the implementation of the subsequent dredging interventions that they will guarantee the deepening at -13 meters below the banks and at -16 meters in correspondence with the center of the navigable gutter.

The work will be completed by the end of 2025, starting from from which the port will then have an access channel in able to allow the transit of full container ships of length of more than 330 meters.