In recent days, the technical verification commission EIA and SEA Environmental Impact Committee and the EIA Subcommittee of the Ministry of Environment and Energy Security have established that, following the results of the investigation carried out, the project of "Resection of the western quay in the sections G-H-I" of the port of Gioia Tauro "must not be subject to the EIA procedure as it does not determine potential significant and negative environmental impacts".

The intervention is part of a process of deepening and consolidation of the seabed of the port channel and of the expansion basin, as well as technical adaptation functional. Related to the proposal for technical adaptation functional to the Port Master Plan, the project provides for the modification of the shape through the rectification of the alignments of the existing quays and affects the entire extension of the G-H-I sections of the western quays. It has been made necessary to allow overtaking in the port channel of the large ships in attendance, along the Levante quay north side, of other ultra-large ships, in order to make functional also section D at a depth of -17.4 meters.