The Port System Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea approved the Three-Year Works Plan 2026-2028 and the budget 2026 forecast, prepared by the administrative manager Lorenzo De Conca, who conservatively estimates current receipts more than €34 million (over €20 million referring to port fees and 11 million to fees deriving from concessions state-owned property) against expenses of the same nature for approximately 21 million euros, with a current surplus of about 13 million euros. The port authority noted that, thanks to this positive result budget, it will be possible to launch significant loan, in order to ensure the financial coverage for proceed with the planned major infrastructure investments by the Port Authority in 2026 and which amount, overall, to approximately 127 million euros, of which 52 million to be borne by private individuals.

Among the most significant interventions planned, The dredging of the third basin in the port stands out of La Spezia and the access channel in the port of Marina di Carrara, the construction of the movable bridge in the Pagliari locality as well as the interventions already started, first and foremost the electrification of the port and the new cruise pier.

In the latter area, the president of the Ligurian port authority, Bruno Pisano, in the meantime, has signed the decree of entrustment of the first of the two lots of works for the construction of the new network of distribution of high-voltage electricity in the port merchant ship of La Spezia. This is 84 of the total 110 MW of needs that the work will have to satisfy. The investment total is equal to 41 million euros, of which 13.3 million funded by the Green Ports call.

The works include the construction, in the locality of Stagnoni, of an electrical substation for connection to the National transmission managed by Terna Spa, underground laying of electrical cables for high voltage power distribution within the merchant port and the construction of three stations for the subsequent supply of utilities final (cold ironing and operational areas). The contractual term for completion of all the works is 455 consecutive days from the delivery of the works which will be formalized by the end of the 2025.

Specifying that the European tender has been awarded evaluating both the technical and economic offers of the six participants, the Port Authority announced that the selection committee identified as the best offer that of the Consorzio Stabile Research, which indicated the company Guastamacchia Spa of Bari as the executing shareholder and who proposed a discount of 13.00% on the amount based on tender.