Saturday in Salerno, inside the Cernicchiara gallery, The last diaphragm of the road infrastructure has been demolished Salerno Porta Ovest tunnel joining the downstream section with the one upstream of the system directly connecting the commercial port of the Campania city at the motorway junction with no more interfere with the Gatto viaduct and the municipal road network and provincial. It is a work born on the basis of an agreement Inter-institutional initiative launched in 2010 between the Municipality of Salerno and the Port Authority of Salerno, today the Port Authority of Port System of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea, subsequently completed on 25 June 2004. The project has become possible thanks to PON Infrastructure and Networks funds relating to the 2007/2013, to PON funds for the year 2014/2020, PAC funds for the year 2007/2013, Complementary funds to the PNRR, funds e - distribution, TERNA funds and finally insured loans from the budget of the Port Authority of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea for a value of approximately 162.3 million euros.

"In a few months, when the works are completed - underlined the president of the Port Authority, Andrea Annunziata - finally also the area port can count on a primary infrastructure and will improve the competitiveness of ports of Campania. This work comes from afar and has been strongly desired by port operators, by the administration when De Luca was mayor of Salerno and Bonavitacola was president of the Port Authority of Salerno to whom I took over in 2010. In these long years, the port authority of the Tyrrhenian Sea was responsible for procurement and development of the work that has had many vicissitudes as a result of the damage feared motorway viaducts and required many checks and multiple consultancies". "But, finally - he added the secretary general of the institution, Giuseppe Grimaldi - here we are. This was a particularly complex work that presented Important critical issues solved with the contribution of many Professionals. But now the two tunnels are passable by entire and by the end of the year beginning of 2026 we expect to complete the works".