The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Meridionale has announced the cessation of the matter of the with Versalis, a chemical company of the Eni group, with regard to the construction of the landfill in the port of Brindisi, part of the project "completion of the port infrastructure by means of quayside and construction of the backfill between the Petrochemical wharf and East Morena Coast". Yesterday, in fact, Versalis has filed its own declaration in which it asks the administrative judge to conclude the proceedings, closing the Therefore, the litigation is good-naturedly and definitively.

The port authority explained that, after listening to the needs of the represented by Versalis in order to ensure, with a view to strengthening and development of the company's activities, the operation and safety of the handling of the products entering and leaving the petrochemical site, it was formally committed to placing a briccola and its Gangway at the head of the pier in concession to the company. The Briccola, or mooring dolphin, will serve in the future to assist the best possible mooring of different vessels, compared to the current one, allowing docking even with a ship's bow protrusion than flush with the current pier. These are interventions - he specified the PSA - that, as agreed by both parties, will effectively eliminate any occurrence of interference between the construction of the reclaimed area and future operations of the Versalis wharf and the petrochemical site.

The construction of the reclaimed area, a work considered to be strategic for the development of the port of Brindisi, in March 2022 it was has been included in the list of 15 new complex public works to be placed under commissioner as part of the so-called "Unlock construction sites". The contract is part of the economic framework of the work called "Works for the completion of port infrastructure, in relation to the construction of of the landfill in the area between the root of the Polymer Pier and the mouth of the Fiume Grande canal", under the synergistic infrastructural interventions in the port area and complementary to the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), to an amount of approximately €43 million. This is the most of procurement procedures launched in a port in Southern Italy, after Palermo. Once the reclaimed area has been built, the PSA will be able to start the dredging of the seabed of the Apulian port.