Work restarts on the completion of the quays commercial areas of the port of Milazzo in the stretch between the quay XX Luglio and the breakwater pier. Last week, the Authority of the Port System of the Strait has delivered the execution of the intervention at the ATI Sostenia Srl - Megares Srl after six years of expected from the previous termination of the contract for non-compliance of the contractor who had completed the works at 70%. The works will allow the expansion of the infrastructure endowment of the Sicilian port with 18,000 square meters of new yards and the Improving and restoring the level of service and security in the operational spaces.

The total duration for the execution of the works is set at 24 months. After the award of the tender and its contract signed last year, in September 2024 it was signed an additional act with the Sostenia-Megares consortium which offered a discount of 24.343% on the auction base of 22.1 million euros, for an offered amount of 16.9 million euros, charges of the security included.

Announcing the start of the works, the Port Authority recalled the long process of the project that was drawn up in 2003, passed in the Conference Special Services in 2004, and after a long period for the identification of funding, approved by resolution of Port Committee in 2007. The process of the original tender was concluded with the signing of the contract with the contractor in 2010. At following the inclusion of the industrial area of Milazzo among the Sites of National Interest (SIN), subjected to new details environmental constraints, the problem of management and disposal of the significant quantities of excavated material of the dredging in compliance with the new regulations on the subject. In addition due to the unavailability of the only and nearby Valdina landfill, in 2011 a variant appraisal was drawn up that complied with environmental requirements. The original works launched in 2011 had thus had a complete recovery in 2013 and in 2016 the construction phase of the sheet piling and excavation of the seabed. In 2016, however, some problems for the consolidation of the dredged material and placed in a reclaimed tank and, therefore, was prepared a further variant appraisal for the conclusion of the intervention which, however, was not implemented because The company, although warned, did not show up to resume the Work.

The port authority specified that the current intervention just delivered, in addition to adapting the previous project, has improved the forecasts of the new quay from the point of view of the characteristics of the yards and systems, including the preparation for the future electrification of the docks.