The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted a €90 million for the construction of the Darsena Europa, the project for the extension of the port of São Paulo to the sea Livorno which in the first phase provides for the construction of the breakwater and a container terminal. The financing agreement was signed yesterday in Livorno Gelsomina Vigliotti, Vice-President of the EIB, and Luciano Guerrieri, president of the Port System Authority of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, in the presence of the President of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani, the mayor of Livorno, Luca Salvetti, and the commander of the port of Livorno, Gaetano Angora.

The first main works will concern the construction of new breakwater and related dredging activities, the Definition of a containment area for dredging sediments and the construction of a new access channel to the terminals of the port.

"The agreement - underlined the president of the Port Authority of the Tirreno Settentrionale (Northern Tyrrhenian Sea), Luciano Guerrieri, on the occasion of the signing of the agreement - testifies not only to the proximity of the main Community financial institution for the development of the Tuscan port but also makes clear the strategic value of the Darsena Europa, a value that the government and the Tuscany Region have grasped by giving the full political and financial support for its implementation".

The agreement - highlighted the president of the Tuscany Region, Eugenio Giani - "is another important step that shows how at the European level we have the absolute consideration and the necessary support for the key intervention of the legislature that I'm driving. Today's signing between the Port Authority and the EIB guarantees another 90 million to build the Darsena Europa which will give Livorno the opportunity to be at the center of the most important international maritime routes, with a draught of the slipway which will go from the current 12 meters to 20 meters of the project". "It is evident - he added - how important it is for us to invest in such a project strategic which, through the sea, ensures Tuscany a great prospects for growth and rebirth for the future".