Today in the port of Ortona, work began on the consolidation of the Riva quay on the first section of the quay and its yard, a stretch that is of a length of 230 meters out of a total of 560 meters and a width of 30 meters. The intervention was planned by the Authority Port System of the Central Adriatic Sea and the contract is awarded for an allotment of €8.6 million euro against a decrease of 21.73%, with the use of the Interventions for Territorial Cohesion and Areas Special Economics of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

The first phase of the work will concern war reclamation of the land areas and seabed affected by the project. The works, which will have to be tested by June 2026, also include the Ready for electrification to power cranes self-propelled vehicles of the section affected by the intervention, in continuity with the with what is planned for the stretch of Riva Nuova. The execution of the This work will then allow us to proceed with the deepening of the harbour seabed up to a level of -12 metres.

In the meantime, the contract for the construction of the infrastructure to feed, through electrification, the self-propelled cranes operating on the North Pier and the quay of Riva Nuova, with an investment of two million euros.