Today in the port of Syracuse work will start for the infrastructure maintenance worth over 300 thousand euros. Some inspections carried out in recent weeks by the Authority of the Port System of the Sea of Eastern Sicily, which has been months has taken over the management of the port of call, they found a serious lack of maintenance interventions that has made infrastructures and plants that are unusable or functioning to a large extent reduced and unsafe: "The area, in particular the one downstream of the entrance to the port – specified the president of the Port Authority, Francesco Di Sarcina - has been the subject of an in-depth analysis to understand what needs are and therefore what actions to take. The conditions found in almost all the quays represent in a concrete risk for operators, vehicles and materials that circulate in port activities. For these reasons, in the context of a substantial renovation and restyling process, massive renovation interventions immediately started, reconstruction, redevelopment and compliance with regulations, in order to reconstruct the missing infrastructural and plant elements or irreversibly deteriorated and regularize those that have deteriorated".

Among the scheduled works, the important services will begin today both underwater and bathymetric of the bodies of water in front of the the entire Grand Port to have, within a month, a picture updated of the trend of the seabed up to the bathymetry of -10.00 meters and allow realistic assessments of possibilities mooring of all landings. With the intervention, in the amount of about 29 thousand euros, video inspections on the platforms 2, 3 and 5 in order to detect the state of affairs of the and obtain a detailed level of knowledge for the subsequent design phases useful for the elimination of instability currently present.

In the first week of March, maintenance will start extraordinary fences, with a cost of about 145 thousand euros, to secure the areas of the S. Antonio pier from non- Authorized. The project involves the replacement of the existing fence torn up with a new, more stable fence and and, at the same time, the maintenance of the yards to restore the disconnected parts and the construction of a sewer pipe in anticipation of future uses of the Squares. As for the Darsena Servizi pier of the Porto Rifugio di Santa Panagia, is expected by the end of March an extraordinary maintenance action, for an amount of approximately 147 thousand euros, with replacement and restoration of the walkways. Finally Two other activities are being studied in depth: the extraordinary maintenance and upgrading of the public lighting of the S. Antonio pier and maintenance extraordinary bollards and fenders quay 5 and quay 6.