The board of directors of the company Strait of Messina, controlled by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, has Approved the designer's report to update the project 2011 on the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina and further design documentation aimed at restarting the construction of the work. The company specified that the designer's report was prepared pursuant to Decree-Law no. 35 of 31 March 2019 by the general contractor Eurolink, led by the Webuild Group. In addition, the stated that 'the approval of the report is the result of an articulated system of checks carried out by the Strait of Messina which, in addition to the technical direction of the company, involved Parsons Transportation Group as project manager consultant and an expert panel as a support body for the activities technical-specialist high surveillance, consisting of four Leading representatives in the disciplines of aerodynamics-aeroelastic, seismic, geotechnics and environment. The companies, as provided for by the aforementioned decree-law, has also Having received from the Scientific Committee the favourable opinion with recommendations on the report. The Scientific Committee is a autonomous and independent body established by Law 1158/1971, composed of nine experts appointed by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport in agreement with the Calabria Region and the Sicilian."

Among the other issues to be examined by the Board of Directors, it was approved the updating of environmental documentation and, in particular, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIS), the Incidence Study Environmental Assessment (SInCA), the Compliance Report and the Landscape Report, in order to adapt the assessments to the current programmatic, environmental and territorial context, as well as to the overall project framework updated by the above-mentioned requirements of the designer's report. It has been The cost-benefit analysis was also approved, which - specified the - "has shown that the project is able to to generate a Net Economic Present Value (NPV) broadly with an Internal Rate of Return of 4.5% higher than the minimum level required by the legislation in force (3%)'.

The company believes that, with the continuation of the process and the necessary further green light for the project final, the implementation phase can be started will be next summer to open in 2032 of the bridge to road and rail traffic.

Confirming all the technical characteristics of the bridge and the its land connections, the Strait of Messina company has remember that the bridge will have a total length of 3,666 meters, with a central suspended span of 3,300 meters and with a height of the towers on both sides of the river is 399 metres. About the free of charge, the company has specified that it will be 65 meters for a width of 600 meters in the presence of heavy Road and rail traffic conditions, waterway free which, in the absence of rail traffic, will rise to 72 meters (instead of 70 meters as in the recent past, more pointed out by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport).