The Port System Authority of the Western Ligurian Sea announced that the Services conference on the approval of the layout of the new breakwater of Genoa, with changes to the projects that aim to significantly improve the safety of navigation and allow parallel execution of the two executive phases, originally scheduled in sequence. Among the aims, of course, there is also the need to accelerate the works that saw the installation of the sixth module of the dam, later than the 12 planned by end of 2024 out of a total of 90 to carry out the work.

The port authority explained that to the east the new layout presents the reduction of the upper branch and the modification of the orientation of the brush under the breakwater, allowing the containment of the wave motion reflected by the breakwaters along the new access channel and expansion of the evolution basin eastern interior, improving navigation safety and also achieving a reduction in construction costs of the work. To the west, through the extension of the upper and the reduction of the subfluent branch, a significant increase in the width of the mouth and the basin of internal evolution of the west, allowing the transit of units naval up to about 270 meters in length. This increase in the transit and manoeuvring spaces - underlined the Port Authority - will make it possible to A new mouthpiece is available, an alternative to the historic one of east, allowing traffic to be distributed over the two Access. In addition, the optimizations of the planimetric configuration of the work allow you to plan the simultaneous construction in of Phase A, currently being executed, and the Phase B, to be contracted out in the coming months.