Today, in the headquarters of the Port Authority of Gioia Tauro, the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, signed together with the Authority's extraordinary commissioner of Port System of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, Paolo Piacenza, a memorandum of understanding focused on the objectives of the PNRR and the completion of the electrification works of the docks of the port of Gioia Tauro.

The port authority recalled that, following the provision of the 2025 Budget Law which led to the definancing of a share of the resources of the projects related to the National Plan of Recovery and Resilience, including part of the cold works ironing of the port of Gioia Tauro, the extraordinary commissioner Piacenza, which has just taken office, together with the Ministry of Agriculture, Infrastructure and Transport have taken steps to ensure the overall financial coverage of the interventions of electrification of the Eastern Quay of the port and the ro-ro docks, without which funding would have failed of the entire project, which led to today's signing of the Memorandum of Understanding.

The memorandum - Piacenza underlined - lays "the foundations certain to the completion of the electrification works of the quays of the port, in order to ensure future management that has a An increasingly sustainable and standards-aligned vision European. We will transform this port into a modern infrastructure sustainable port system, an innovative model of green port, capable of to respond to the challenges of eco-sustainability, imposed from the European Union to the logistics and transport sector".

"The signing of the memorandum for the electrification of docks of the port of Gioia Tauro - said the deputy minister Rixi - represents a decisive step in the realization of the objectives of the PNRR. An investment of almost 70 million euros, the most relevant at national level for this type of intervention, to make the main transhipment port of the Mediterranean an infrastructure that is modern, sustainable and compliant with the European standards. It is a result that strengthens the competitiveness of the Italian port system and which confirms the commitment of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport to a increasingly innovative and environmentally friendly logistics".