Today in Genoa, in the area of San Benigno, it was Inauguration of the construction site for the construction of the sub-port tunnel it will be the first of its kind in Italy and the most Europe's largest city. The work, strongly desired by the mayor of Ligurian capital Marco Bucci, will be built by Autostrade for Italy and will connect the San Benigno node to the district of the Mouth. It is expected to open to traffic by August 2029. In addition to the mayor and commissioner of the Bucci work, the Inauguration ceremony was attended by the Vice-President Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, President of the Liguria Region, Giovanni Toti, the Prefect of Genoa Cinzia Torraco, the Authority's extraordinary commissioner of the Port System of the Western Ligurian Sea, Paolo Piacenza, and, for Autostrade per l'Italia, Chairman Elisabetta Oliveri and CEO Roberto Tomasi.

The sub-port tunnel project has a 3.4 km long route kilometres consisting of two separate main tunnels of the Excavation outer diameter of about 16 meters, one in each direction which will run at a maximum depth of 45 meters in the harbour basin area. Thanks to an investment of About one billion euros The work is among the top in the world among underwater tunnels by size of excavation diameter.

"The sub-port tunnel," said Mayor Bucci - represents a strategic work, which will improve the circulation in our city with greater safety and sustainability also from an environmental point of view. A real and its own revolution for Genoa, a unique infrastructure in its in Italy, one of the most futuristic projects in Italy. this moment in Europe, on which we have strongly believed since the by its design. An engineering feat of the highest level that together with the new Waterfront, the Dam and the Park of the Lanterna will totally change the face of this area of the city. city'.

Following the preparatory interventions that began in 2023, with the dismantling and demolition of the disused port ramp and the resolution of interferences with underground utilities, today the works They began with the demolition of the large industrial warehouse CSM-GMT. This phase will open up an area of over 25,000 square meters in the West of the tunnel and where the excavations will start.